Tornado Machine (And More)

This is a video that shows a couple of different clips of a tornado machine. The first clip shows Dr. Fujita's model and the second clip shows pioneering storm chaser Neil Ward's. Also included is a clip of the Geary, Oklahoma tornado that occurred on May 4, 1961. This film was shot by Neil and was the first motion picture of a tornado shot by a storm chaser on an actual storm chase.

EDIT: The very first tornado machine shown is not Dr. Fujita's and was made at Purdue University. Not sure who made the second one that shows the model cars being sucked out of the model garage/gas station.

SECOND UPDATE: The second tornado machine shown with the cars being sucked out of a garage was made by C.C. Chang. (Thanks to cbehr91 for identifying this)

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[WillieDines1]

The 1st tornado machine shown here was made at Perdue University, the 2nd was by Prof C.C.Chang in the 60's and of course the 3rd being Ted Fujita's machine :)

Neil Ward's tornado machine (4th) was awesome with the set up he had, there is a basic diagram on how it worked.

I'm going to be working on a new set up on my tornado machine today, as I have a few ideas for the updraft fan :)

Once the machine is up and running, I'll post some videos :)

[ColonelAngus75]

Cool, I look forward to seeing it.

[lowbridgenc]

Aaaah! My gas station!

[ColonelAngus75]

Is your puter still bjorked?

[WillieDines1]

Ted Jujita's Machine operated similarly to mine, except that I used a fan that I could have suspended and handheld for both stationary and non-stationary experiments :)

I'm looking to get my tornado machine up again, but it won't be untill the renovation work is completed on my house, and I don't know yet when it's going to start :)

I use a smoke machine for the tracer instead of dry ice, which gives the same good visual effect.

Thank you for uploading this, top rating always :)

[ColonelAngus75]

You're welcome! Can you record some video of your tornado machine when you get it running again?

[1normaltoontownfan]

i have one of those at my local science musem! if you stick your hand in it, it acts funny!

[WillieDines1]

Hey Colonel :), what's cookin buddy? :)

I got some good news about the tornado machine :)

I'll be starting work in a hardware store next wk and will be able to get the extra parts I need to reconstruct the machine, since the original parts got trashed.

Hopefuly it will the work on the machine will be able to start in the next 3/4 wks :)

The new model will be made to have adjustmentable levels of swirl ratio, to allow more detailed studies of multiple vorticies and vortex breakdown :)

[Hellafireleli]

thats very kool! me want!

[hilo99]

what physics factors does the tornado have?? i have to make one similar to this

[BryanBeatsYouAll]

This is fro Tornado Video Classics!!!

I have all three!!!

[dadsbestchild]

how can you make an multi vortex tornado machine, I am fascinated and want to try and study to multiple vortices, is it easy cause it seems hard, I did make one with stirophone for debris but I had to throw it away cause I was making a huge mess

[5thElement15]

very good video thanks :)

[ShadowCharizard36]

Tornado machines from what I heard are really expensive and it'll take a life time to get the money for it