Classic Tornado News Footage

This video starts off with the first tornado captured live on T.V. On April 3, 1964 a tornado was captured live on local T.V. when a hook echo was sighted on the station's radar scope. Then a newsreel about the Topeka tornado of June 8, 1966, the nation's first $100 million tornado. Then lastly, a newsreel about the deadly Oak Lawn tornado in Illinois of April 27, 1967. 1967 was also the last year of those 'talkie' style newsreels that were seen only in theaters, T.V. news had caught up.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tornado
• Outbreak
• F5
• Storm
• Newsreel

[tpledger]

I'd like to see that complete broadcast.....Wonder if it still exists?

[cbehr91]

I would imagine that there is more of the original broadcast tapes. Many T.V. stations across America were very gracious to the Tornado Project back in the early 90s in making copies of their original broadcast tapes or kinescopes for use in the TVC series. Unfortunately not all of is was shown because there was so much.

[ColonelAngus75]

Thanks for uploading this, I've been wanting to see the 1964 Witchita Falls tornado for a long time now.

[cbehr91]

You're welcome!

[Rcurriej]

I watched the tv guy live - I was home sick with the measles. It was a beautiful day at noon, but by 2 p.m. the newly invented portable tv cam was out filming just underneath the forming funnel. I remember the guy saying "I'm getting out of here" and then I watched it from my house next to Hirschi Jr/Sr High tear up the town - box cars flying and debris. My friend got a boxcar in her house.

[anastaisa100]

i wish the my cathlic school could be destoyed ha ha ha

[Petemonster62]

Many of the communities in " tornado alley " were the first to use their civil defense sirens that were intended to warn of enemy attack, to also warn of tornadoes. There is a U.S. Weather Bureau report on the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak that advised communities to use their civil defense sirens to warn of tornadoes because many people were outside enjoying the nice weather & did not have a radio or TV on & didn't get the Severe Storms Forecast or the Tornado Warnings.

[vanni9283]

The hook echo looks like an elephant trunk at 0:36.

[ssjkrillen]

The time that tornado's were black and white. How the world changed since then.

[eternalnate]

mother nature just don't give a fuck

[mikebasejumps]

I've heard alot about the tornados here. I was here on this day, on Sheppard AFB, where I was born. I was almost 2 yrs old, and even now at 47, I can still remember seeing a tree in the yard flipping back and forth. My Mom said once there were seven in one day.

[AlagaiBanty]

That's interesting - I came down with the measles on the next day.

[cbehr91]

It was F-5.