Tornado!

B&W, 1956

This is part 2 of "Tornado!", the first tornado prepraredness film, set in the FICTIONAL town of Elmville. It's as corny as you'd expect, especially the commentary & music.

With the limited technology 52 years ago it was obviously difficult to forecast and track tornadoes, as you will hear in the narrator's overly-dramatic descriptions. Among other things during this time, tornadoes were thought to rotate at 500mph (Mach 1 is 761.5mph) and occur perhaps up to 200 times a year.

The Corn twister of '51 shows up for a cameo.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tornado
• tornadoes
• twister
• twisters
• documentary
• historical
• footage
• 1956
• public
• service
• announcement
• environment

[cvilleok]

If Dr. Fujita were alive today, i bet he would laugh at this.

[Anticyclonic]

Well, he probably saw it, seeing how it was made in 1956. I mean back then no one knew shit about tornadoes. So he probably laughed at it anyhow!

Sorry for the stupid approval setting on the comments, some of my videos are still under that setting because I was trying to filter out those stupid chain letters. All my twister vids are now back to automatic commenting.

[PopppaBlue59]

This is great! i was born in 1959, and I remember learning to open doors and windows before a tornado strikes.. I also remember tornado drills in school. Thanks for posting.

[dylan962300]

lol

thats all i have to say

[cowboyzsuk81]

i know..i was just pointing out how cheap things were back then

[TSarsany]

looks like a half-dollar or dollar coin..they used them back then

[cowboyzsuk81]

wow what a tip at 1:16 lol a quarter and a penny.

[cvilleok]

The Scottsbluff, NE tornado of 6/27/55 is included along with the Corn and Warner-Robbins footage.

[cvilleok]

500 M.P.H? Bit of a slight hyperbole, isn't it?

[ForkliftJoe]

Love the panic music.

Makes you wanna hyperventilate into a paper sack!