Tornado Ghost Towns p2 (And a couple that almost were). Glazier, Picher, Greensburg, Wakita
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2019
- Visiting the tornado ghost towns of Glazier Texas - From the woodward Oklahoma Tornado. Greensburg Kansas Tornado. Wakita Oklahoma Practical Effects "Tornado" and the Picher Oklahoma Tornado. Featuring the Woodward Oklahoma F5, Greensburg EF5, Some of the worst US Tornadoes in History. and the ghost towns of Glazier and Picher. Why did two of these become Ghost Towns after a natural disaster, and why did the other two survive?
Many distressed American cities especially on the plains are in danger of not returning from a major natural disaster. I visit towns destroyed by historic weather events.
If you missed part 1 of this series, Check it out here! • Tornado Ghost Towns. ...
Glazier Texas was razed by the Woodward F5 Tornado of 1947. Picher Oklahoma, already in serious distress from toxic piles leftover from lead mining, cadmium, and arsenic laced chat piles, was finished off by a terrible tornado. The city's water was poisoned by lead and arsenic and a buyout of the residents was in progress when misery turned to disaster. Wakita Oklahoma was used as a practical effects set for the movie, Twister (The Making of Twister Movie featured here). Several of Wakita's homes were torn down and the streets were littered with debris imported from elsewhere. What if that Tornado really happened? Would Wakita bounce back?
Greensburg Kansas, in spite of total destruction, DID bounce back. I visit a FEMA ghost town left behind after Greensburg was rebuilt.
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Would you visit these places now knowing what there is (or isn't) to see? Which one was your favorite across the series?
I wouldn't make a pilgrimage there, but if I ever found myself in the area with some spare time I'd absolutely visit.
Deff an interesting vid!
Never been to any of those places (actually never been anywhere on the great planes in general)
Its highly unlikely I ever would be, but if I was ever out there & near / had the time /etc, it'd be kinda interesting to stop & look around, maybe take a few pictures.
I visited Greensburg in 2009 and Pitcher in 2010. In Greensburg I recall the bare foundations, empty lots, bent metal, denuded trees, and the FEMA town that was there at the time. I also recall the grain silo along the west of Greensburg that somehow survived the EF5. There were also new buildings and houses with solar panels going up. There are probably a lot more of those today.
I recalled lead poisoning caution billboards and destroyed houses with FEMA markings in Pitcher. Actually went onto one street between a couple of chat piles to look for evidence of the EF4, but someone came by wanting to know what I was doing, so I left because I thought the mine was still in operation. There were still people in that town in 2010 IIRC. I didn't know it was a toxic waste zone, or I might not have gone around the piles.
Wouldn't mind visiting where Manchester, SD once stood.
surprised you haven't mentioned moore ok...how many tornadoes have hit there now?
Interesting topic. I was aware of Picher and actually wondered if it had ever been hit by a tornado in addition to its other problems.
The storm that spawned the Greensburg tornado also spun off other large tornadoes after Greensburg was destroyed- they impacted no towns and very few structures, so they didn't get a lot of airplay, but one was 1.8 miles wide.
The storm produced a dozen nocturnal tornadoes after that! Storm made it all the way to Great Bend still dropping some. Whats really crazy to me is a storm the very next day dropped just as many tornadoes over the same counties. Seasons like 2007 are pretty rare, but this year might have some similarities.
I can't believe the easter tornado outbreak was as bad as it was, especially the tornadoes that dropped in South Carolina. Soso mississippi just about became a ghost town that day and again a week later, crazy day
I was watching the first episode of storm chasers when they missed the storm that hit greensburg that night and killed 11 people. They went back the next day of greensburg was gone. It was hit by ef5 tornado.
Many if not all of the large wedges that storm system spawned also had satellite tornadoes orbiting around them, which are rare and typically only seen in the strongest tornadoes.
Wasnt the one directly preceding Greensburg 2.2 miles wide and given an EF3 rating?
Interesting take on the whole ‘ghost town’ concept. I had heard of Greensberg, but didn’t realize other towns had literally ended after a tornado. Well done.
Thanks! I’ll admit a couple of these, specifically Melva I had never heard of before deciding to make this series.
As a little kid I loved watching the movie Twister. It made me super fascinated in Tornadoes, and even though there was a lot of destruction in the movie, to me as a kid it was just a movie and I couldn't really comprehend the damage a tornado can do. My dad took me on a business trip to Wichita KS and on the way there we passed through Greensburg only about a year after the tornado hit. I was still very young, and on the way into Greensburg I was pointing out damaged and dead trees and I said to my dad "Hey it looks like a tornado came through here" and my dad said "maybe so" but he knew I was obsessed with tornadoes at that time so it sounded like he said that just because I'd get excited, but then we drove into the town itself and everything was still completely destroyed. We saw all the spots where homes used to sit, we even saw a tree with a fork stuck in it. We talked to people in the town and they had told us about what happened and I could not physically believe that a tornado could seriously have the power to not only take your house, but a whole entire town. My obsession became a fear and I didn't regain my interest in tornadoes until I saw one in Platteville CO last year on my way home from work. I now want to start seriously chasing tornadoes now that I'm old enough to make those choices for myself, but I'm still completely terrified of big tornadoes. I tend ti like scary things though for some reason, adrenaline really is a drug!
Hallam NE has a very similar "everything is too new" vibe to Greensburg. Hallam is a well known name throughout Nebraska for being wiped off the map and then rebuilt.
That tornado happened the exact same day I moved out of Florida to Kansas. Not to mention watching the Greensburg tornado on the local channel as it was hitting almost three years after the Hallam tornado
@@normanwaterman9877 I’m sorry you had to move from Florida to Kansas.
The Hallam tornado was the largest on record (2.4 miles wide) till the El Reno OK tornado came along in 2013 (2.6 miles wide). (Jan Griffiths).
This two parter, is easily one of the better tornado educational videos on UA-cam.
There's a lot of folks posting videos they've caught of tornadoes... but not many who actually take the time and effort to discuss how these storms affect people and towns along the way, not just in the immediate aftermath, but further down the line.
Excellent work!
Thank you! If anything I can try to be a voice for a place silenced forever, but at the same time I hope I can help people prepare for/prevent the next one. Even if it's from some obscure corner of youtube!
Check out Saragosa Texas it was almost wiped out in 1987.
I live near Picher Oklahoma on Grand Lake. It was just off of Historic Route 66, and in nearby Commerce is the hometown of the New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle. You will find his boyhood home on the northeast corner of C Street and South Quincy. Lead mining was big business in northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas back in WWII. The entire area sits on a strata of unstable rock which causes buildings to shift and sink. In nearby Coffeyville Kansas, the old Dale Hotel now the Dale Apartments on the northwest corner of 8th and Maple is a classic example of what I am talking about.
Erica Baker I didn’t know that about commerce/Mickey mantle. That would have been a fun mention.
He was born in indian springs
I grew up in Grove. I remember playing Picher in baseball.
The cinematography was great in this video!
Ken burns taught me everything I know :P. Thank you! I did shake things up with color grading on the Wakita section. Should I be doing more of that?
This series was fantastic. Well done. Why this just showed up in my feed is beyond me.
UA-cam is starting to show the series to just about everyone now and it’s doing very well, best video performance I’ve had in many years. Glad you found it!
@@scienceoutthere this is a very cool concept and very sad
@@scienceoutthere This just showed up on my feed today 17th May 2022 and its absolutely fantastic as I've always been interested in weather & tornadoes & supercells in particular. 👍
My family and I live near Springfield MO, and we remember the 'Rain of Debris' as some called it when small pieces of Picher came out of the sky. My sister and I stepped outside to find insulation from Picher in our backyard.
That would be eerie as heck. Even chasing tornadoes I haven’t seen that happen yet.
@@scienceoutthere Eerie is the perfect word for it. And it was especially poignant for my mother. She spent part of her childhood in Picher in the 1960s.
Love these videos. Very well put together and incredibly informative. If you plan to continue the series, I recommend Sneed, Arkansas, Sunfield, Illinois, Whigville and Thomas, Michigan. All locations were affected by F5 tornadoes. Sunfield was rebuilt, but moved to a different location nearby, while little remains of Whigville and Thomas. Sneed was wiped completely off the face of the earth and wasn't rebuilt.
Nickel Plate Studios Thank you for those suggestions. Those are all new to me. Except maybe Sunfield, I’ve at least heard of this one.
@@scienceoutthere No problem. If you need more information, there's a series of documented pages called "F5: The Chronology". The Whigville and Sneed tornadoes should be documented on page 1 (Tornadoes between 1880 - 1949), while page 2 (Tornadoes between 1950 - 1999) has an article covering the Sunfield Tornado.
I moved to Oklahoma in 2014. In 2019 I was directly hit by a rare EF3 QLCS tornado. No warning, I was in bed when it took my home and everything else... somehow I'm still here.
This was a phenomenal video set! Thanks for the quality content.
anagennao I remember that tornado. That was an odd duck. Tornadoes that strong don’t typically come from overnight QLCS systems. And Thank you, glad you are safe and have stories to tell!
@@scienceoutthere QLCS?
Just now discovering these channels. Your last segment really struck home with me. Other than two years I’ve lived in a small town my entire life. My line of work has me constantly traveling to all the surrounding small towns and communities as well. Each one of them has something different that makes it unique, yet at the same time the feel is always the same, the diners will always have chicken fried steak as a daily lunch special. And things generally move a bit slower. Not too different from “Island time”. If you’re ever in the area, go stop by and visit Cooper, TX. Not a ghost town yet, but the towns population has been declining slowly since the 70s.
What an incredibly thoughtful and interesting set of videos. And very well produced too!
Thank you and so glad you enjoyed!
These videos were incredible! Your passion for this subject is very clear. On top of that, you mentioned some stories that I didn't know of or lacked information of. I'm curious to see more! :-)
Gilles Tijmes Thank you! I’ve gotten a great response on this series and while I only intended to do 2 sets I’ve been given some hints and ideas for a future video like this. It may be a while but I’d love to do another one.
What a gem of a series and UA-cam channel! So glad I found this.
Thank you!
I loved this video so much and would love to see you explore more tornado-ghost towns or almost ghost towns. One town I would love to see in a video is Hallam, Nebraska. On May 22, 2004, a very large tornado (2.5 miles wide if I remember correctly) hit this town and nearly destroyed it completely. It also narrowly missed the power plant that is about 2 miles north. This tornado also went on to damage a nearby school (Norris Public in the Firth area) as well as several other towns. This tornado event is often overshadowed by the Joplin tornado, which happened the same day in 2011, and one of the tornados that hit Moore, OK that was 2.6 miles wide. I'd love to see this town get some recognition, as it's very close to where I grew up. I was almost 6 at the time this storm happened, and I can still remember some of the damage I saw with my parents the next morning. It's this storm that has prompted my love of all things weather, as well as my future goal to help better forecast such weather events to give people more warning time and potentially save more lives. (Sorry for the essay lol)
I agree! I grew up in Nebraska as well. The Hallam tornado was the largest on record until the El Reno, OK tornado in 2013. I was thinking of leaving a similar comment, but then I saw yours. I don't live in Nebraska anymore, and didn't at the time this tornado hit, but I spent 7 years in Lincoln and had a job during college in Hickman, which is just down the road from Hallam. Also, my nephew and his wife lived in Bennett for some time, although I think they had moved before this storm hit. Thankfully, since it very nearly hit that town as well. Bottom line, I know the area well. Used to go to the Czech Festival in Wilbur. Anyway, I agree with you and I was thinking the same thing!
Thank you for your time on this story! It was very interesting! Keep up the good work! MAHALO from Hawaii! I miss living on the Colorado plains and really miss the seasonal storms!😕
Fabulous series. Your presentation was not only educational and informative, but artistic and atmospheric. I enjoyed every second. Thank you for producing this.
Craig Moody thank you! I have a lot to learn and this was a great and fun experiment. And you pretty much said exactly what i was going for.
Just came across this channel because I love everything about tornadoes. I’m a disaster junkie and watch everything I can find so I subscribed and hope to watch more interesting videos.
Thank you!
Man these videos are great. Very professional. Glad I found your channel! You deserve more subscribers!
I really appreciate that! Growth is steady though, I had about 700 when this video was posted. Thanks!
After 2 years, the algorithm brought me here. Awesome video even after a couple years 😊
I’ll have a part 4 up this summer if you are interested! So random algorithm stuff is great when it works out.
Very interesting and thought-provoking couple of videos that don't just centre on the tornados, but look beyond that to the social and economic factors as well. History is rarely simple, many factors combine to decide the fate of so many areas
Man you deserve so many more subscribers. Your videos are great, so educational and not stuffed with fluff content to drag them out for monetization. I've been subscribed for some time, and make sure to drop a like on every one that I watch because I genuinely enjoy your content. Thanks for the enjoyment.
You highlighted really well a concept that I've thought about over the years of studying disasters, which is how the dynamic changes when it's an entire town destroyed, not just part. And in 2018, I survived the Camp Fire, which destroyed 18,804 buildings and over 90% of Paradise, which had a population of nearly 30,000. A lot of people were faced with the same question of should we even re-build. All my neighbors lost houses, all my friends, all the parks I used to go to burned, many stores I used to shop at burned, many people I knew moved away and never returned, and the landscape around won't be as beautiful as it had been for at least 20-30 years. No matter where in town you go, you really can't escape the evidence of it, even in places that didn't burn as much. It changes your ENTIRE way of life, far more than just the stress and grief from losing a house or loved one.
This is the first time I've run across this channel. You're right up there with Hank as an educator. Subbed.
Thank you so much! I’m a big fan of Hank and he’s a fan of this channel too. Hope we can work together on something some day.
@@scienceoutthere I'm catching up on your work. Got to knock off and go scoop snow. I'm in Ord, Nebr. Been below zero here for days.
Your videos came suggested to me just after I finished watching Pecos Hank's video of his close call on May 23, 2022. I've been watching his videos for over 5 years now,he is by far the BEST storm chaser uploading to UA-cam!
This has been a really interesting series. I came here from reddit. New sub. Good job.
Glad I just found your channel via getting this video recommended, probably due to me doing another Pecos Hank binge last night lol.
You deserve at least 100k subs!!!
Wow there is so much work put into this series. I can't believe you dont have more subscribers. Keep up the great work :D
Thank you for the two-part upload! Quality work
I never would’ve guessed Woodward ever was hit. I stayed there for a few days when I was doing oilfield work a couple years ago in Arnette.
Picher would make a great setting for a post-apocalyptic video game or movie, as odd as that is to say.
I would likely visit Wakita. Twister was one of the movies I frequently watched growing up.
They aren't far from each other really. And both are fascinating places.
Very informative miniseries about what can pretty much force a place to become a ghost town. I'm not surprised, actually, that tornadoes are a cause... In many cases, the knockout punch.
Fantastic documentary! History, science, and culture come together to tell an amazing story.
In 2005 my town got hit by a ef3 that crossed from Kentucky into Indiana then back then to Indiana the destruction was crazy we rebuilt you cab tell the difference between the houses that got destroyed and rebuilt and ones that didn't
This is a great video, I’ve always been horribly fascinated by Picher. Twister is my favourite movie and loved the box of info themed as such.
I’ve subscribed to your channel just now, excellent two videos. Tornadoes interest me and I was sorry when the recording ended.
There’s a 3rd one of these! And a forth one coming someday.
@@scienceoutthere I found the 3rd! And I’ll definitely explore your other content and look out for a 4th video in the Tornado Ghost Town series 😀
That was an amazing series. I guess I never considered what happened to some of the smaller towns completely wiped out by tornadoes. Hopefully I'll get to see some of them at some point.
Damn son. The music and kind of shoddy effects in the back ground make for a creepy vibe on that greensburg tornado
I really enjoy your channel. thank you!
You just earned another subscriber lol I'm probably near the start of a well deserved wave your about to get, this was recommended to me.
Thanks! And I’m extending this series to 4 shortly!
For a video about violent storms. This is so relaxing and informative i love it
Chris Lawrence Thank you!
I don’t understand why you don’t have a heck of a lot more subs man. You do a wonderful job with your videos!
Things are moving FAST though now! And thank you so much!
As a metal detector hobbyist, I would love to visit some of these places.
I would definitely still get permission ahead of time. Picher is now in Natve American trust for example, Manchester's land is owned by a storage place and a nearby farm. But yeah there's got to be some interesting artifacts around many of these places. I'm pretty sure Melva is fairly safe as I think it is mostly state forest land?
Very Great Video Series , i learned something new
Im from greensburg. Rode out the storm in a truck. Still living here. Its slowly becoming more of a ghost town
Thank you for checking in! That's sad to hear if that's true. The plains need a boost.
You must have been in the outer edges of Greensburg or outside tornadoes path. Nearly impossible to survive direct hit from ef5 in a truck.
I wish i was lying. I was at 54 highway and bay street in a 78 ford. Watched the coastal mart gas station get engulfed by the tornado. We was across the street at the outside gas pump at the phillips 66 station that was there. We were basically in the heart of the tornado. I have references if you dont want to believe me. Ill never forget looking out the back of the truck and the lightning flashed and it looked like a bomb went off.
imeep30jj fwiw I’ve seen plenty of instances where objects, people, buildings, trees etc fare relatively fine inside of an otherwise maximal tornado. Wind fields are uneven, most of the power can be contained to sub-vortices and the tornadoes motion can cancel out inbound windspeeds inside of parts of the tornado. Instead of a tornado being one uniform grinding machine it’s better to imagine it as a turbulent mass of various speeds and directions. Totally possible to have ef5 damage in one part of a tornado while someone else survives unscathed.
It was a crazy night. Had two of my neighbors on my block pass. I'm thankful thou we wasnt at home we lived in a trailer house on the nw part of town. I have a pic from my friends property on south bay st. Its a wasp stuck in a tree by its stinger. I laughed and said "haha wasp thats what you get for chasing me" we was gonna remove there hive that next day and well the storm kinda did it for us. Our house up on north bay is the only ones that rebuilt on our block
I've lived in tornado alley for most of my 75 years. I've had two twisters go over my head & I lived in Topeka, KS when the F5 tornado hit on 8 June 1966. They're awesome forces of nature!
I was just in Picher, OK chasing a system coming down from SE KS. Seems like a theme. I grew up in Miami, OK and the kids would go sledding on those chat piles in winter. One girl was hurt / paralized because she sledded into a big hole there in Picher. What a nightmare it is.
Ouch! Yes and my comment section here and elsewhere have quite a few dystopian stories from picher like this.
Kind sir, I vid (bid. 🤣) you greetings. Although I haven't seen the series as a whole, I watched this video the instant I saw the title. The whole video was moving for me. Just wow.
I appreciate being able to watch your broadcast. Thank you for creating it. Sharing these stories I had yet to hear with me.
Be blessed and safe, kind sir.
And the same goes to all those who watch this video and resided in these places ⚓🔱🗻.
8:36 I can't stop laughing, as a child I tried to find it on the digital car map. - that video explains a lot!
very interesting thanks for making this video
Nice video's so interesting to see how the rest of America looks. Cheers from New Zealand. Take care .. Kia Kaha !
Hillsdale Michigan is actually a town that bounced back from a tornado it’s one most people that live there don’t even know about it but I love the stories of towns being hit by tornadoes and rebuilding or sometimes disappear it’s just the history of what happened and why
I grew up not far from there and I didn’t even think of that until now. So thank you. I’ll have to read up on the history after the tornado. Michigan has had several very historic tornadoes in the past and that is for sure among them.
science out there I lived in Hillsdale county my whole life and really enjoy the story of the tornado lol and yes Michigan sure has some good tornado history for sure.
Is that the home of Hillsdale College?
W T indeed it is.
science out there I’m a fan of Mark Levin and he frequently endorses Hillsdale College.
There was a F5 in the vicinity of Caro and Cass City, MI in 1905 wiping out farmsteads and apparently the hamlet of Colling. The fact there's houses and a Methodist church in Colling tells you they rebuilt, but the place suffered enough that it doesn't have streets, just two rural roads meeting. A town that would have been two miles south of the tornado's path and a similar growth trajectory up to the day of the storm still has a Christian school, gas station, and small street network.
I went to high school in Saginaw and played both of those towns in sports. Never knew about Collings. I’ll have to to do some poking around.
@@scienceoutthere It's in the Grazulis Tornado Project. Other very small towns of note that have taken a direct hit include Depauw, Indiana (1974 Super Outbreak F5) and Primrose, NE (May 8th, 1965). Primrose in the census only has 61 people.
Depauw was possibly grazed where half of the town was hit, but Primrose was 95% destroyed.
Franklin and a couple other towns in southeast Kansas were hit pretty hard by a F4 tornado in 2003. They aren't completely abandoned though, since the area is moderately populated.
Very well made documentary. Thank you.
Look into Moore, OK. It was hit by and EF5 tornado twice (May 3rd 1999 and May 20th 2013). The damage path was almost the same on May 20th and the city rebuilt itself. It has also been hit by other tornadoes as well.
In both cases, Moore bounced back big time. When I do another one or two of these videos it will be discussed. I did talk about them in my climatology video from about 2 years ago but time for a revisit!
If there is a part 4, hope you add the Jarrell, TX tornado, love these videos Michael.
Thanks!! Many people have recommended I segue this series into legendary and historic tornadoes and severe storms and how they’ve shaped various towns, culture or warning systems etc. I love this idea. Jarrell would be a perfect one to include some day. I might do just that. I’ve been getting involved in an expansive tornado history archive project that would tie in nicely as well with this plan.
@@scienceoutthere Judging from photos of the damage and the tornado itself, many meteorologists say that this tornado was the most intense and due to its forward ground speed it wiped the Double Creek estates clean and killed 27 people, hope you visit the Jarrell Memorial Park.
How do you not have 100k subs? Wild.
Maybe someday! We will see
I would like to know where you saw that 1958 Ford Fairlane setting in the garage at. I've been through Pitcher Oklahoma since the closure and Condemnation of the town. I was in that storm on May 10th 2008 when a a EF 2 tornado hit the Town of Purdy Mo. I was in a semi truck and pulled up just south of the town. I watched it hit and called a driver ahead of me to get out of there as fast as he could because I saw the wall cloud moving in on him. Ive been to Greensburg Ks and came through there two days after the EF 5 tornado hit. It was so terrible the destruction I saw. I prayed for those people. Tornadoes are no joke. Been rattled by flat winds and debris hitting my tractor trailer. And a few really close calls. Likes the video.
Seeing this video now you have over doubled your Sub's. Great content!
Things are cruisin! I didn't expect these to go viral or be so well received. Thank you!
I remember seeing Greensburg in a textbook maybe 6 years after that storm, talking about how they had bounced back with all the green building and things like that.
man. I need to watch this before bed. you put me to sleep.
I went to Greensburg for search and clean up. The devastation was horrendous
Thank you for checking in. I sure as heck hope that is never repeated but I know it's just inevitable. Thank you for your service. While i haven't gotten myself into an SAR situation yet and don't wish for it, I hope I'm ready when the day comes.
I drove through Greensburg a few weeks after the tornado hit. Piles of rocks were everywhere. I only saw 2 buildings standing. The worst was the trees, they were stripped of all leaves and branches less than about a foot is diameter. It was eerie.
"No cows were left out front." 😍
😂 Where did you get all this steak, Meg?
Very very interesting
Great video
Thank you!
Jesus those night tornados are something else; you can't see SHIT until lightning gives you a split second of closure. Sheesh...
I've got to know the music here too I love your selection
I've been to Greensburg myself. Pretty much all of the buildings have been restored or rebuilt, but a few trees are still stripped of their bark.
I love to return every spring and see the progress. Impresses me every time.
Just driving through Picher on US 69 is just a visceral experience. So many new collapsed roofs even in the last year. The chat piles are slowly going down, thankfully
Michael I recently found your channel and just wanna say I really love the content!
Liam Richard Thank you and welcome!!
science out there damn I just realized I wasn’t subscribed! I’ve since corrected that. Stay safe 🤙🏼 g’luck this storm season!
Liam Richard awesome! Yeah I’m going to need it. I’m sitting out this weekend’s hype hedging my bets on things for late April I’ll probably regret it!!
science out there wow I just checked the spc and it’s now a moderate risk with 30% tornado hatch. That escalated so quickly
Liam Richard been watching this on long range over a week. Bout time they noticed!! :)
In March, 2006, an F2 hit my city frighteningly close to my house. My little girls were both a bit storm phobic after that. Scary stuff, and I for sure wouldn't want to see an F4 or 5.
A video essay by a person with direct observation of the subject. Nice.
You just hit the intedend theme of this channel! :)
It's cool that Wakita was added into Twister to show how the destruction was like
Do you have ties to Martin, Michigan?! Your tornado ghost town videos popped up on my algorithm, and then I just happened to see a video clip of a Martin parade in this video.
Jordan, Iowa; June 13, 1976. An F-5 that Fujita himself studied while fine-tuning his scale while at the University of Chicago. This tornado family was also featured in The Tornado Project's Tornado Video Classics.
How about Udall, KS? Small town was completely destroyed by a large violent tornado in the mid fifties. This tragic event led to the formation of the Skywarn weather spotter system to report dangerous weather to NWS to let the people downwind know (hopefully!) before it gets there and take cover. I'm a 30 year veteran of Skywarn.
RJ Macoute Hi RJ, I’m working on the 3rd video now and Udall has come up a couple times. Still trying to decide on the last one or two so thanks for bringing this up again. As it happens, a work buddy of mine lost a couple relatives to this Tornado.
Newkirk,Oklahoma had the same situation as well as Mulvane.Both towns were mostly swept away and only barley survived.Mulvane sits on the BNSF railway and has modern grain silos there .Newkirk I'm not sure.The last time I was there was 1999 and I was busy with the May outbreak up north in Kansas.
the twister quotes at aunt meg's house at 8:34 LMAOOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great video. Subscribed. Can you name the first piece of music on this one? Thanks.
Did you find out?
Love the video! Very well done. What is the music called at the very beginning?
Thank you! I’m in Alaska right now away from my computer and can’t remember the name off the top of my head. But I’ll post it here when I get a chance!
@@scienceoutthere Much appreciated! 👍
I live in Joplin and have gone to Pitcher several times to explore and take photos. Eerie and sad.
Glad you stopped in! Picher and surrounding area definitely are eerie. You are surrounded by ruins and it sounds like a jungle in the summer.
"No more cows left out front" lolz
Judsonia, Arkansas tornado
Just thought I'd let you know that, Ron Yankowski was a professional football player for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and he went to KSU, and NEOAM in Miami Oklahoma and the most important is that he graduated from PICHER HIGH SCHOOL, and he lived in Cardin Oklahoma, and Jo Don Rooney of Rascal Flatt's Fame also lived in and went to and graduated from PICHER HIGH SCHOOL
Wikita is on my list. If I g et time out there.
Glen Heinz I’ve been there three times during business hours for the museum. They generally stay closed until someone wants to see it. So show up with freinds to make it worth their while!
@@scienceoutthere , why not build towns underground instead of above ground?
Pax Humana I mean technically it would work. But there’s other practicalities like bedrock to blast up, water tables and rising rivers, Radon gas and just human well being. There are other perks though like underground facilities are cheap to heat and cool.
Pretty good interesting from Kansas and remember all the tornado tragedies
Barneveld Wisconsin June 1984 was horrible. Also, my great aunt Caroline Malliet and 5 members of one family died in an F4 in Waupaca County Wisconsin..in late September of 1951. A mile down the road where I live right now.
I have a bad feeling for the 2021 season. The 2020 season looked like it was gonna be another horrible year and the first 4 months were dropping strong tornadoes left and right, but the rest of the year was relatively quiet, with the exception of a couple bad tornadoes and the hurricane isiasis outbreak
Same here. Have you seen my forecast video for this year by chance??
@@scienceoutthere yeah I believe it was ur video. I agree with ya, and the way storm systems are erupting right now isn't a good sign. If it were a lil warmer the next 5-7 days would be bad for tornadoes. I love in central ky and we're due for some rough weather, and the way things are looking the ohio valley and lower mississippi valley are in for it.
You should check out the Union City tornado from 1974. It made history in the meteorology business.
My town was wiped out by a violent F-3 tornado that went right through the heart of the town in 1976. Afterward the town rebuilt 3 times bigger!
Wow...please show more
Did you film the clip at 1:16? McCook NE.
What’s the first song of the video it’s so soothing yet sad
John Whalen I think the one you are referring to is called “bring me your sorrows”.
I was wondering if wakita really did get hit by a tornado but then it was a reference to the scene in twister like a what if?
Hackleburg, AL is very similar to Greensburg. 80% of town was wiped out, we lost our grocery stores, pharmacy, the main factory where almost everyone worked. But they rebuilt the factory a new grocery store came into town, School was rebuilt larger than before, most people rebuilt. I believe we went from ~1500 people to ~1200 people between April 27, 2011 to today.
The 80% doesn't do it justice simply because the main part of town that was wiped out was the lifeblood of the town, the other 20% was basically farmland.
If you are interested in Hurricane ghost towns, check out Indianola, Texas in which was once the county seat of Calhoun County. That was until it was wiped off the map by Hurricane Carla in 1961, the town was never rebuilt and the Calhoun County seat would be moved to Port Lavaca.
Thank you! that's a great idea.