1925 TRI-STATE TORNADO CASE STUDY | Tornado Talk
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A full case study and breakdown of what happened on March 18, 1925 to create one of the most famous tornadoes in history.
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Hearing about how farmers were caught off-guard by this storm, it makes one think what this tornado had to have looked like. And my mind immediately goes to El Reno 2013. Could it have been an extremely low cloud base, with an extremely wide area of primary rotation? The description of multiple funnels in portions of the path could also support this, as El Reno had multiple subvortices the size of typical tornadoes within the primary rotation.
Theres a really good book that talks about the Tri State tornado. Its called "The Forgotten Storm: The great tristate tornado of 1925" in it there is eye witness of the tornado going over the mississippi river where a boat full of people disappeared which from what i got was not added to the death toll. So 695 were comfirmed deaths there could be more but we dont know about it.
As I live right along this things track, I'm glad weather radar is a thing and that I would be able to move the hell out of the way.
My grandmother lived in Carbondale when it went thru and she saw a building collapse and kill a group of firefighters.
Awesome video! By the way will you do the West and East Pacific Hurricanes other than the Atlantic?
Sure! We’ll add some non-Atlantic hurricanes to the list :)
@@MeteoTechWx I would say that the West Pacific Cyclones are Typhoons, North Indian and the South Hemisphere are Cyclones.
What I kind of wished deduced is the dollar amount of 1925 to today and also the amount of people in the affected cities in 1925 compared to today completely taking away the fact that we have better building codes and alerts.
The triple point setup is similar to that of the Mayfield tornado.
Yes it is, it's also interesting how the Tri-State supercell was just within the warm sector between the warm front and cold front, so it probably didn't get too warm before the storm arrived.
@@F5Storm1 another valid even more intresting point.
Just wanted to say Kayla looked so pretty in this video!! And digging the jacket Jim!
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Wait the Quad State tornado also travelled far to
Right...and it was a confirmed as a single tornado for 165 miles...unlike the tristate that may have been several tornados in a line.
Very detailed explanation of that tornado, thank you both. I honestly like hearing about old footage of captured tornadoes and history of them. Thanks for another great case study
Thank you!
This one has always been an interest to me since I live about a half hour from Princeton, IN. Petersburg, IN was hit by a strong tornado on June 2, 1990 as well in a large outbreak. Thanks for another awesome video guys!
Imagine if it had moved as slow as Jarrell. Would have been thousands of fatalities.
it would have also lasted for an EXTREMELY long time if it went the same exact path as it did in real life. the Jarrell Texas tornado was only moving at 3 miles per hour, which means this tornado would have went on for almost 3 whole days
@@winko567 would the environment even hold for 3 days hell would the environment that produced the tornado even allow those low speeds?
Not sure how the environment would hold for the 3 whole days necessary for a TriState Jarrell level event to occur. 3 mile per hr covering 3 full states southern tips taking 3 full days to finish. The instability and explosive qualities of the environment wouldn’t logistically and realistically hold for at most 3 hours let alone 3 whole days. It’s a decent and depressing thought but not that likely with naturally occurring atmospheric instability and explosivity. However, if we got HARP involved anything is plausible.
When you rate a tornado the forward speed should be in the equation. The jarrell tornado was a low end of F5 that's slowly moved SW
Not really. If anything, the tri-state killed so many in part due to it's fast forward speed. I think if something as slow moving as Jarrell came through people would have simply gotten out of it's way.
Safe to say, this tornado was a freak of nature. Conditions that day were unique and there hasn't been a tornado like this one since. In terms of sustained forward moving speed and duration, the Tri-State Tornado still holds the record.
Until the "quad" state tornado, which was similar but a tornado family.
@@BladeValant546 Mm-hm, it lasted almost 3 hours and broke the distance traveled. However, that track was the result of two distinct tornadoes instead of a single, continuous vortex like the majority of the Tri-State tornado's path is.
And the tri-state tornado was very Graphic I read the book One fireman lost his brother he was decapitated and one girl lost her legs and The Deaths were higher since nonwhite Citizens were not counted and Some died in the hospital a baby tried to say its mother with open brests it was a sad event
I never really understood the science of a tornado until you guys explained it on a level I could understand and follow. I always wanted to know what “ wind sheer “ and what “ cape “ meant.
I’m sure the sheer terror of that tornado was simply awful.
About the Tri State Tornado’s appearance as a “dust cloud” or “giant fog,” here’s is a survivor's account of the tornado, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 20, 1925:
“All morning, before the tornado, it had rained. The day was dark and gloomy. The air was heavy. There was no wind. Then the drizzle increased. The heavens seemed to open, pouring down a flood. The day grew black. Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frame houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth. And living beings, too.”
So judging by those remarks about the heavens opening up & pouring down a flood, the day going black, the Tri State Tornado was a heavily rain wrapped tornado. After seeing enough pictures & videos of high precipitation supercells, I learned that the heaviest rains give the appearance of giant boiling clouds sweeping across the ground. This happened with the 1953 Waco, Texas Tornado, the 1990 Plainfield Tornado, The 2011 Joplin Tornado, & the gargantuan El Reno Tornado in 2013.
more than 10 yrs ago Dr. charles doswell interviewed survivors and eyewitnesses who were still alive at the time and showed them pictures of modern day tornadoes. he asked which ones come closest to what they saw. they pointed to the wichita falls, texas tornado of 1979.
Have you looked at some of the Hackleburg tornado videos from 2011? One video of it moving into Athens, Alabama reminded me of the Tri-State tornado
If it happened again today their would be far more damage, with more buildings today.
No way to protect those buildings.
The 60 mph forward wind speed would catch many people by surprise out on the highways.
I wonder what it’s F-5 wind speeds were ?
Well over 300 miles an hour.
I'm Glad you guys didn't jump directly on the "people used to be stupid" band wagon. These people were far more in touch with the climate and weather and earth than we could scarcely imagine in today's world. Only the trained experts today can rival them. Yet there is a tendency to claim people didn't know their A-hole from their elbow in the past. The idea that everyone, throughout the 100 years since this happened, was just dumb and confused. It wasn't really a huge tornado, just a bunch of little ones. Is demeaning and ignorant.
oh yeah. that was longest traveling tornado in world history! i been along it's path! Missouri, Illinois, Indiana.
I read "Death Rides the Sky" by Angela Mason. Haunting survivor stories. I hope itnever happens again.
Excellent book.
A lot of us watched the Hackleburg tornado come through our area in Athens, Alabama back on April 27th. I always wanted to see a tornado before that day, and after my place was hit and there was so much damage and carnage around Alabama I hope to never see one again. Just awful.
I think the Tri-State looked very similar to that one, it looked like a dark dusty mass with a dark green sky behind it and was beginning to be wrapped in heavy rainfall
Hurricane clips were added to building codes… jarrell 97’ were wiped and Joplin noticed the building with hurricane clips protected life far better. 800+ died farmers were deceived by the fog shroud, which is extremely rare. Mississippi River was a non damage path. I’m from Illinois grew up hearing about it.
I really enjoy these case study videos, y'all do a great job!
Here is a did you know when the tornado crossed both the Mississippi and Wabash Rivers it rained fish.
I felt really bad for all those people who were caught unawares by the tornado 🤧
It disgusts to no end knowing a photo of this tornado actually existed but was destroyed in a flood.
You two sure are happy considering the nature of the report.
Just sayin'.
is it true that the term tornado wasnt used back during this?
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What if the tri-state outbreak happened again
The Quad-State Tornado in December 2021 was very similar.
@@dtdimeflicks6708 yeah, Arkansas to Kentucky
I live in Murphysboro, Il. Just ran across your channel. I live in the part of town that was flattened.
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Are there any photos of the 1925 Tri-State tornado?
Dr. Charles Doswell was doing a Re-analysis of the track of the Tri-state Tornado. Doswell interviewed several eyewitnesses and survivors who were still alive at that time and he showed them pictures of modern day tornadoes. He asked them which tornado or tornadoes comes closest to what they saw. The elderly people pointed to the 1979 Wichita Falls, Texas tornado of Terrible Tuesday.
Many photos. There are 3 very good books, and I assume more in 2025.
Describe this dust devil 😂… it was Fog. Lol
I disagree with the nws on the tri state tornado.
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Was this the tornado that the weather service officials were not allowed to telegraph ahead to warn offices and towns that the storm was coming, to "avoid a panic"? Or am I thinking of one earlier, may be in the 1800's?
I have heard references that the weather service still was hesitant to use the word tornado in this Era for the reason you suggest. The main reason warnings did not get out even for the technology of the day is communication lines were going down before folks even knew what they faced. Also don't forget this was an outbreak so many other places were getting tornados that day and communications were disrupted far and wide.. This one took the headlines.
Awesome
I bet the Tri-State wasn't continuous, my thought is it did something similar to the quad state tornado, it very briefly cycled 80 miles in, with several brief weak tornadoes in between the gap, which would've easily been missed in 1925. Also looking at the track of the Tri-State tornado and the quad state supercell, there are several gaps early on before the main tornado occured, it's possible the Tri-State supercell was similar. That storm was in the very northern fringes of the warm sector in between the warm front and cold front, which is why many people described the day being cool, still, and gloomy, then the supercell arrived and then the tornado hit. We had a similar event here in SW Indiana on March 3 of this year, most of the day was cloudy, cool, and still with little wind at all, but we were in the northwestern fringe of the warm sector very briefly but just long enough for supercells to move in and produce several tornadoes, of course none of those were as strong as the Tri-State.
Meterelogically the Tri-State was a unique storm in structure. It's quite interesting.