Tornado

Audio tape of a tornado hitting a house in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 8, 1974.

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Education

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• Tornado
• Tulsa

[tombittm]

@parksport - I have a picture of the house near "my" pool that was gone except for the foundation! Bet it's the same one.

[tombittm]

Highlordstevious - I think I was goofing around, taping the thunder mainly - not specifically the TV. Funny, I taped Nixon's resignation speech, too! Think I still have it somewhere...

[tombittm]

This is my cassette tape recording from this tornado - actual stuff.

[bmpmom]

My house was destroyed by this tornado! We were in the house under the stairs. Our house was in Park Plaza South, right next to Shadow Mountain. I still have vivid memories of that night!

[tombittm]

Same neighborhood - we lived at 6717 S. 71st E. Ave. By the way, I said the tornado came over Shadow Mountain - that wasn't right - it was the hill at 71st and Sheridan.

[davortho10]

I remember this vividly, I was in highschool.  We lived near 61st and Irvington, just east of Saint Francis Hosp. My English teacher lived in your neighborhood. They lost their house.

[highlordstevious]

@rockman399 - Don't know how old you are but back then it wasn't unusual for fans of movies or TV shows to stick a cassette-recorder microphone up to the TV speaker and record the audio. VCR's were a few years away then.

There's still audio tape of the "Wizard of Oz" audio and Nixon's resignation speech at my mom's house somewhere. She still lives in the old neighborhood.

[highlordstevious]

Awesome. I was 8 and remember a lot of that day. Lived in east Tulsa somewhere between the 21st and Garnett tornado and the flooded trailer park, I'm pretty sure. Dad said he saw the tornado out the window, then made me get in the hallway.

@spaceheater1 - The storm struck on a Saturday night, so it would have been "Emergency!" on Channel 2 (KTEW back then).

[radioyankee]

i was evacuated by the national guard from flooded trailer park near Mingo Creek

[BigTulsa]

Wow, Jack Morris. That brings back the memories.

[rockman399]

is this actual audio from a household on that night or is this something you just put together?

[spaceheater1]

Thanks for sharing! I remember several storms in the OKC area from spring 1974, as well.

I think that show on t.v. that's heard in the first part is "Emergency!" (appropriately enough). Robert Fuller's voice is quite distinctive.