Jordan Iowa And Lemont Illinois Tornadoes

Both tornadoes were large destructive (the Jordan tornado was an F5) tornadoes that occurred on the same day (June 13, 1976). Both had anticyclonic satellite tornadoes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Anticyclonic
• Satellite
• Tornado
• Large
• Wedge
• Destructive

[patchesallover]

My brother and his family lost their home in the Jordan tornado, and I arrived there just a few minutes after it hit. It was a shocking site. The professor, from Chicago, did make the statement to my brother that it was the most destructive he had ever seen. He said he estimated the winds speeds at 500-700 miles per hour. It was enough to move a V-8 Dodge engine with the transmission attached across the field by about 100 yards. They were sitting on the ground, and were picked up and moved.

[cbehr91]

@patchesallover Would that "professor from Chicago" be Dr. Ted Fujita? The man behind the Fujita Scale? I remember reading that he thought that the Jordan tornado was a particularly potent one.

[reillyisawesomeex3]

when was this?

[cbehr91]

Read the description.

[LetsDoIt4Johnny1]

@cbehr91 Is this a clip of a longer program? If so, what's it called and is it on YouTube?

[cbehr91]

@LetsDoIt4Johnny1 Yes, this is part of a longer program. It is on Tornado Video Classics I from 1992. It is two hours long and it is not on YouTube.

[ILLINOISLOYALTY1]

LTOWN bitches

[vfIskullangel]

Damn you nature for being so scary! 0_0

[ARCHSTANTON87]

I live in lemont

[ATamandua]

@patchesallover 1. According to Gene Moore at chaseday.com, a tornado farther south in Iowa from this outbreak actually lifted a VEHICLE SIZED OBJECT and tossed it out the side of the cloud tower from a height of 15,000 FEET! (Gulp) 2. Heard of a family at a party near Jordan that saw the distant storm and panicked, thinking the T was over their farm. Driving home they found it missed their farm by 1 mile, but the twister was so big it still looked from a distance that it went right over it.

[angeltherapy2011]

@bearcatcontractor Ron and Juanita are my Grandparents :)

[littleskinnydancer]

Grew up a mile NW of Jordan...left in 1960. Haven't wanted to see this before now and am crying my eyes out. I can't believe our old farm is still there. I saw stills of it in the eighties at a Jordan School Reunion, but it never seemed real until I saw the results of an F5 last spring in NW AL. So very glad everyone in Jordan survived. School, Church, elevator....all gone but memories and people alive in my heart.

[vfIskullangel]

@patchesallover 500-700mph? Thats sub sonic speeds.

[bearcatcontractor]

My family lived in Jordan and left there in 1964 when I was 6 years old. My father was the high school principal, and we lived behind the school. I know the house was lost, but I can't remember about the school. Our friends, Ron and Juanita Lincoln, were still in the area.

[BackOff414]

The lemont tornado was a bitch of a tornado. F4, I believe.

[AJTwister97]

i cant see the anticyclonic tornado in the Lemont sequence, even in the zoom in

[parkman35]

My Aunt and Uncle lived right off McCarthy Rd near State St much of teh damage was east of there