TWC's coverage of the April 26, 1991 Andover, Kansas tornado outbreak

In April 1991, TWC sent OCM Dennis Smith and a crew to the Wichita, Kansas area a day before a violent tornado outbreak. Forecasters were right on the money with the tornado outbreak occurring right there in the Wichita, Kansas area. This included the tragic and infamous Andover, Kansas F5 tornado. Dennis Smith tells of the humbling experience seeing people with nothing left and the town totaled.

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[ILovestorms]

@ssfor27 Scenes like Andover have been repeated over and over again the past year or so. Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Joplin and then this morning, Birmingham again.

[talladegajunkie1439]

0:22-0:42 scared me.

[ILovestorms]

@talladegajunkie1439 That is when the tornado was moving across McConnell Air Force Base on the southeast side of Wichita. That twister barely missing a line of B-1 bombers and it was en route to Andover.

[ssfor27]

@ILovestorms No - that tornado had passed hours before. This was a second storm that moved through that same evening. It was crazy. I was at McConnell that night and remember the chaos of a second tornado warning (shown here) just a short time after the first one, now known as the Andover tornado, had caused so much devastation.

[ILovestorms]

@ssfor27 Tomorrow is the 20-year anniversary of that tornado.

[ssfor27]

@ILovestorms My bad - the time frame talladejajunkie refers to is the Andover tornado. My previous comment is related to the opening sequence where there is lightning flashing all around - that was the second tornado warning I mentioned.

[broncoj20]

thanks for posting this.