@@crimsontide1980 me too, almost with an occultic or supernatural overtones although it’s a natural weather phenomenon. I can imagine native or indigenous tribes would have a lore and mythology for these events
@@paradoxstudios6639 The internet has made it easy for anyone to watch tornado films. But, back in the 70s 80s and 90s, it wasn't so easy, so vids like this were cherished. Like storm chasing itself, the internet has made it far easier. Back in the 80s, even the very best chasers were lucky to see 1 tornado in 10 chases.
@@dannygray4898 That wasn't the point I made, what I meant was it's sad today kids don't really appreciate programs like this anymore, science, history, and chasing storms, the attention span of kids today is so short it's unreal.
@@paradoxstudios6639 I understand. My point was that today's kids have no interest, because it's so easy for them to see everything now. When we were young, it Wasn't. I agree with ya 100%.
I've been looking for this, forever. I had the whole set when I was a kid, and I remember watching them literally everyday on repeat. I would get home from school, and just watch these. It made me remember my dream of doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. Chase storms, be a meteorologist. Seeing this just about out a tear to my eye lol
OMGGGGG I made my mom order this for me when I was a little kid in the early 90s, I was absolutely obsessed with tornadoes. Watching this is giving me MAJOR déjà vu!!!
Probably would’ve gotten this too as a kid, I wanted to be a storm chaser until I actually ended up surviving a tornado. Nothing changes your mind faster than that! Even so I’m still very fascinated in them. However if I die without seeing another one I’m 100% cool with that.
I used to borrow these Tornado Video Classics videos from the library all the time as a kid. The old movie/camcorder footage seems even more eerie today. Thanks for posting this!
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This is awesome. Seems like more recent tornado documentaries are much less informative, and focused more on the human drama rather than the science. I'd love to see a new documentary as informative as this one depicting the history and progress of tornado science up to the present day. Anymore they always rapid fire quick cut shots of tornado video and you can't even get a chance to really watch it. I suppose that's done for "dramatic effect", as if the most violent windstorms on the planet aren't dramatic enough to begin with!
Thank you so much for posting this! My mom bought the 3 tape boxed set for me out of a magazine in the early 90s and I watched the videos repeatedly as a child. It's so precious to be able to watch it again.
I used to have a bunch of tornado VHS tapes when I was a kid in the 90s as well. I would watch them for hours. This is a real nostalgia trip. If I recall correctly, one of them didn’t even have audio from the footage and just played music.
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Ah, this brings me back! I LOVED this series on VHS when I was a kid studying meteorology, I actually took notes because these documentaries were so informative!
I can confirm this as a ga born I seen the Warner Robins tornado damage path and it looks completely different today than it did in 1953 it was my first time seeing the tornado video when I was little
I’m from Dallas. Love the 1950’s video of my city, but at a time that makes it totally unrecognizable to me, even as the narrator calls out areas I drive in often. So cool!
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Alright, but the sheer hue of yellow and the multiple vintage sirens (along with whatever that deeper sound is) in that second clip at 0:13 already had me terrified. Can't wait to see what else there is in this whole collection
@@choppalungon Alright, I thought so. Thunderbolts are one of the most chilling sirens out there. Also it seems like that audio was dubbed in, since it sounds pretty suburban but looks like it's just out by a field. Regardless, it's super creepy
This video was one of the big reasons I became interested in studying tornadoes and severe weather. It was definitely one of most informative and well-made tornado documentaries of its time, and, best of all, presents everything in a way that isn't scary or sensationalized. It also covers several topics that even modern tornado docs don't mention much, such as how multiple vortices form and how early tornado research led to the creation of Doppler radar. I like how, of all the tornado films and videos included, the video in the title sequence is of a tornado over Lake Norman in North Carolina (where I'm from!). "Ah, that's bad news right there."
Poyekhali919 I had no idea that first tornado in this video was on lake norman. I lived in and grew up in Huntersville, and watched this video all the time. Do you have any more information about that lake norman tornado? Was it part of an outbreak? Perhaps the the 84 outbreak in NC? Speaking of that outbreak, I live in greenville nc now and apparently a large F4 tornado hit greenville nc during that outbreak and killed 16 people. I had no idea, amazing.
Accostrophe When I first got Tornado Video Classics on VHS (back in ye olden days), it came with a nice guide that had information about every tornado in the video. The Lake Norman video on the title screen was taken on March 7, 1992. This was one of two weak tornadoes in the Lake Norman area that afternoon; it was on the ground intermittently between Denver and Cornelius, and did just F1 damage, mostly to trees. No other tornadoes were reported in North Carolina that day. The March 28, 1984 tornado outbreak mostly affected the eastern part of the state (there were 14 tornadoes in NC in that one). Did you know that the Greenville tornado (which first touched down near LaGrange in Lenoir County) is still the second deadliest single tornado in North Carolina history?
Poyekhali919 Thank you so much for the info on that Lake Norman tornado! Also, I knew the Greenville tornado was bad but I had no idea it was that bad! If it was the second deadliest tornado in NC history, what is the first?
Accostrophe You're welcome! :-) The deadliest NC tornado was all the way back on February 19, 1884. A major tornado outbreak hit several states in the Southern U.S., including North Carolina. The worst tornado of the outbreak in NC struck several small communities south and east of Rockingham, and killed at least 23 people (and probably more - it's hard to tell about something that far in the past, but some estimates put the final death toll at 30 to 40). Other killer tornadoes touched down in the area from Concord to central Johnston County; Wake County had at least two tornadoes, one near Cary (which was a tiny town at the time), and another at present-day Wake Crossroads, SW of Rolesville.
Oh I was listening to thunderbolt federal siren videos and wondering where I first heard those types of sirens... on those tornado videos I used to watch as a kid. Never thought I would find this video again. I took a shot in the dark and typed in "old tornado videos" and here it is, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for bringing me back!
@@Radiogirl1931 There was a combination of different sirens. I don't really know any of them except the thunderbolt because it sounds so awesome and dreadful.
@@PN20____ It's not a ACA Hurricane 130 you were talking about, It's actually a Federal Signal Model 2T. The windup isn't too fast and doesn't have any rotation like a Hurricane does, That video was shot in Grand Island, Nebraska and there is a few threads on the ARS forums that discuss that video in particular and one even has a link to a recording of the same Model 2T but in a different video, I hope this helps.
I've heard that tornadoes sound like waterfalls over plains, jets over forests, and trains over cities. I can confirm, being hit by a small one once, that the truly dominant sounds are the rain and warning sirens.
Love these vintage science documentaries. Just hearing the music themes used and even the voice over sound gives major nostalgia vibes. Also reminds me of the Dharma initiative videos from LOST. Thanks for the upload. Also disclaimer do not trust the science or even safety warnings. DO NOT HIDE UNDER AN UNDERPASS!! Please check out updated science and safety warnings!!
i like these old classics because the people shooting them act so casual, its easy to imagine them as if its sunny and a light breeze sipping beers and sodas, not like nowadays where everyone is like" OMG A TORNADO WOW LOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!! "versus " hey look its a tornado, where's it goin?
ikr if i eversee a tornado in the distance i would not scream, id tell my family there's a tornado and make us some popcorn and soda to watch the show. then take cover if the tornado get's too close.
+Alex Lubbers It's probably because they think if they act crazy and unruly their video will end up being more popular. Now, if I did ever see one, I would be going crazy, as tornadoes are one of my favorite weather phenomena.
I've got an interesting observation...these old videos often show the destruction of buildings and houses, and the videos of today don't really show that much at all. I've watched 100s of tornado vids, and they show tornadoes getting close to structures, but seldom show the actual damage. I thought maybe it was to be tactful and not show people's property and or lives being obliterated, but they aren't shy about showing the damage after the storm. Kind of perplexing, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed this?
This is an interesting observation. It maybe that early on a lot of the available film was taken by people in or around the path (living in an area with structures) and the stuff now is mostly chased across fields.
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Very cute to the amount of damage or how far cars of the 70's had been thrown in the tornado, with then being made of heavy metal verses the plexy and plastic of today. I've always been amazed at how much the safety tips for people have changed from just the 70's time to now. we went told much in school back then except to get under a desk or go to the hallways and choice or head while facing the walls. it certainly makes me grateful to those chasers and weatheroligist that have changed how we stay as safe as possible and wrong to build new building materials in hopes of keeping our homes and businesses safe as possible.
@ 4:02 + look at how violently that car was thrown by the tornado. because of the speed, It looked like it was just a canvas car cover. Plus the sound of the wind being sucked under the overpass sent a chill down my spine
I bought this video on VHS way back in the day when we used to get a lot more tornadoes than we do today. Classic slow mo "Geeeet unnnnder theeee girrrrrders".
Thank you so much for uploading this and its two sequel videos. I have not been able to watch them in so long because no one makes video tape players anymore
Chives5150 And then there was Jimmy Two Times, he got that name because he would say the same thing twice such as “I’M 10 FEET FROM IT, I’M 10 FROM IT!!”
I thought the same thing. How many ninety's videos have some dick with a beer in hand , running from the windows carefully not to spill any keystone light
First time viewer here. Thank you so much for putting this video together. Absolutely fascinating to see and learn about these. Especially love the old footage. Great video
I never knew how close that movie twister was to the actual way that they understood tornadoes..... That is so awesome tip my hat to the storm chasers of all kinds.....
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I’m elated finding this to see so many other fellow tornado enthusiasts here ! I didn’t have this as a child but I loved tornadoes and still find them fascinating today as an adult
Never been a better collection. In all my years, this reigns Supreme! I grew up madly obsessed with these forces of nature and all it took was being in one (the Tuscaloosa) to never want to see another. Now if I could stop watching these videos...I dunno
Thank you so much for uploading this video! Growing up, my parents had this VHS tape and would watch it countlessly throughout my childhood. I remember this so vividly, it brings back so many memories. Thank you.
I got a VHS like this for Christmas when I was a kid. I don't remember it having a voiceover though. It had the clip of the TV crew hiding under the overpass that made people think that was a good idea.
The Andover tornado and Xenia tornado along with the Bridge-Creek tornado are the tops of my list. The Tri-State tornado of 1925 is up there too but there isn't a huge amount of information about that one.
Wow, awesome classic footage. We don't have tornadoes in Australia.. we do but they're so rare and short lived by comparison we don't and they aren't a concern. Our burden's mainly fires and floods. We find tornadoes fascinating and I'd love to visit the U.S and see one. However, seeing the destruction and tragic loss of life these things cause reminds me that although they're an awesome spectacle of nature's power, they're also devastating and terrible for people and property. April seems to be a bad time for tornadoes, stay safe.
I was in Andover a year after that tornado and you could easily still tell where the damage was. The trees were stripped, which will never have been saved.
The footage starting at 1:14:06 is just incredible incredible footage! As are some of the shots in the few couple minutes prior --- this was a really really good documentary! Hell it's better than a lot of stuff out now to a point and helps appreciate what are the science in general came from and continued from, etc. Really awesome!!
My dad was born in 1953 after the Warner Robbins georgia tornado happened. While my mom was born in 1957 less then a week after the Dallas Texas tornado happened. I was born approximately 1.5 months after the Barneveld Wisconsin F5 Tornado occured shortly after midnight on June 8th 1984.
oh god, it's the same guy from Twister Nature's Fury and Twister: Fury On The Plains, and i mean this on both announcer, producer, writer and archive help.
"I'm 10 feet away from the Tornado... I'm 10 feet away from the Tornado...(Even though the video shows it about a couple hundred yards away)." That guy had some serious depth perception problems. Probably walleye vision issues.
i live in Centerville Ga right next to warner robins.....my mom and dad both saw that tornado in 1953 which killed 19 people.....they said they were scared half to death because they were on a small 2 lane road (247 for those that know) coming back from macon.
I remember growing up, seeing that “underneath the girders” video a thousands times featured in every tornado video. I wonder how many people that video got killed.
I used to rent these video's when I went to van Antwerp middle school library in Niskayuna NY both this and the volume 2 tornado video classics these are so cool
I had the vhs set and converted it to dvd so i can still watch them. DVD versions are available at some city libraries but i've never found any for sale so i made my own. Just in time too. My then wife decided to put a large speaker -magnet down on top of the steel storage box where i stored my old vhs's in my shed, Caused all my old vhs's to be weirdly distorted.
"Oh what a classic!" 1:05:35 I remember (fondly) this particular segment from a NatGeo feature on tornadoes that came out around this time when I was a kid. And I think Howie Bluestein has little tornadoes on his T-shirt?
Wow i have these on a vhs somewhere. I used to watch this like crazy as a little kid. “Get them kids in a basement. Get em in that closet”. Lmao. I been lookin for this video. Ive been quoting this for years!!!!!
and one time my dad said "you idiots go to the toilet" while we had a tornado warning, the tornado warning was too late, this was in 1991, sometimes and even now tornado warning sirens go off too late in Oklahoma
I've searched for these videos for so long. Im almost 17 and live in Tornado Alley I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I haven't seen these videos since i was 6. I'd like to see the one where it includes how to build your own tornado out of dry ice.
I am still in awe of weather and storms today but the VHS tapes I watched as a kid in the 90's filled my head with wonder and curiosity. The video of the underpass in Kansas is one of those videos that have become iconic.
our library had all 3 of these videos, and if I wasn't watching one on one of their TVs, I had at least 1 of them checked out on my card and was watching them at home.
when i was a little kid in ms. a tornado passed within a few hundred ft of our house my father a ww2 veteran stood at the back door and watched it pass throwing cars cows and buildings up into the sky as we were all huddled in fear then he turned and went to bed
Other from the Weather Channel, which i started watching constantly in 1992, this was my first time ever witnessing tornado videos. Have both Volumes 1 and 2 (was there a part 3)? I've recorded dozens and dozens of shows from Discovery and TLC.......amazing.
I wish more of these video classics would be made today. There's been so much amazing footage since the time these were released that it's a shame that no one has made more of these documentaries.
When I heard the narrator say 'Toto" I thought... Did this guy narrate PBS Nova's "Hunt for the Super Twister"? Edit 1:01:26 Holy crap I have that VCR! it's a Panasonic AG-6400
love the old vhs footage. just looks so much more eerie and ominous than the crystal clear vids of today
I definitely feel some of these tornadoes look much more threatening than some of the more recent ones
@@crimsontide1980 me too, almost with an occultic or supernatural overtones although it’s a natural weather phenomenon. I can imagine native or indigenous tribes would have a lore and mythology for these events
Listen to the sirens, eerie as hell
@@thelanguageofthebirdsthey do have
@@cohengamertv6548 yeah the natives talked about the dead man walking where the vortexes inside the twister look like legs walking over the land
I had this VHS as part of a school project I did on tornadoes. I was WAY too excited to stumble across this.
Kids don't care about these things anymore.
@@paradoxstudios6639 The internet has made it easy for anyone to watch tornado films. But, back in the 70s 80s and 90s, it wasn't so easy, so vids like this were cherished. Like storm chasing itself, the internet has made it far easier. Back in the 80s, even the very best chasers were lucky to see 1 tornado in 10 chases.
@@dannygray4898 That wasn't the point I made, what I meant was it's sad today kids don't really appreciate programs like this anymore, science, history, and chasing storms, the attention span of kids today is so short it's unreal.
@@paradoxstudios6639 I understand. My point was that today's kids have no interest, because it's so easy for them to see everything now. When we were young, it Wasn't. I agree with ya 100%.
Era a lost generation that grew up wishing this would happen once so we could say we saw
I've been looking for this, forever.
I had the whole set when I was a kid, and I remember watching them literally everyday on repeat. I would get home from school, and just watch these. It made me remember my dream of doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. Chase storms, be a meteorologist.
Seeing this just about out a tear to my eye lol
OMGGGGG I made my mom order this for me when I was a little kid in the early 90s, I was absolutely obsessed with tornadoes. Watching this is giving me MAJOR déjà vu!!!
Probably would’ve gotten this too as a kid, I wanted to be a storm chaser until I actually ended up surviving a tornado. Nothing changes your mind faster than that! Even so I’m still very fascinated in them. However if I die without seeing another one I’m 100% cool with that.
I had em as a kid then too
@@KentuckyWallChicken up. . .Mc Maudie
I’m on the same boat seen my first tornado in 2017 it was a ef3 wedge damage path can still be seen on google maps
I used to borrow these Tornado Video Classics videos from the library all the time as a kid. The old movie/camcorder footage seems even more eerie today. Thanks for posting this!
the home camcorder and the creepy narrator added to the creepy factor
Andrew Rast the narrator is Dave Ross who narrated the videos twister fury on the plains and twister the fury continues.
I got my from the library too
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Holy crap, I used to have all 3 VHS tapes of the Tornado Video Classics series. Probably watched all 3 at least 50 times as a kid
Me 2 seems like only yesterday.
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I love that these old VHS tapes have been uploaded to UA-cam. Thank you.
This is awesome. Seems like more recent tornado documentaries are much less informative, and focused more on the human drama rather than the science. I'd love to see a new documentary as informative as this one depicting the history and progress of tornado science up to the present day. Anymore they always rapid fire quick cut shots of tornado video and you can't even get a chance to really watch it. I suppose that's done for "dramatic effect", as if the most violent windstorms on the planet aren't dramatic enough to begin with!
Completely agree
And lots of Reed Timmer screaming. Ugh.
Yeah the slower pacing of these videos is so much better. I think it has a more powerful emotional effect too!
Well this was clearly before the selfie generation, where everybody absolutely HAS to be the center of attention
"OH MY GOSH! ITS A TORNADO" Thanks for stating that REED as if we thought it was an EF 0 hurricane
Thank you so much for posting this! My mom bought the 3 tape boxed set for me out of a magazine in the early 90s and I watched the videos repeatedly as a child. It's so precious to be able to watch it again.
you have a cool mom to get you such cool docos.
Yeah, all I ever got was video games, a trampoline and a horse. Life is so unfair....
@@supachaloopa3611 Yes, but did you get a flying magic carpet? If not, I wouldn't brag.
@@tammysims8716 I got a yoga mat that only flew backwards. So... you know, I kinda lived the dream.
I used to have a bunch of tornado VHS tapes when I was a kid in the 90s as well. I would watch them for hours. This is a real nostalgia trip. If I recall correctly, one of them didn’t even have audio from the footage and just played music.
I was born and raised in Missouri. Seen a lot of these things. I STILL am fascinated each year.
As a native of Arkansas I feel the same way....As long as nobody dies
@@thediehardarkansasrazorbak7288 koi no no no
@@thediehardarkansasrazorbak7288hello 👋 I saw a funniest cloud spinning near my house 🏠 on October 8 2021 but the tornado 🌪 didn't touched the ground it lifted back up to the clouds
I love these old tornado videos. People seemed a lot more collected and less frenetic and less distracting.
The hype is the product of an increasingly overstimulated and neurotic society.
@@plateshutoverlock definitely. Human psychology is amazing
Yes, how I wish we as a society could go back to that!!!!
People react differently to different situations. Some people scream, some people freeze, some people run.
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Ah, this brings me back! I LOVED this series on VHS when I was a kid studying meteorology, I actually took notes because these documentaries were so informative!
The Warner Robbins 1953 tornado looks absolutely ferocious. Insane motion.
I can confirm this as a ga born I seen the Warner Robins tornado damage path and it looks completely different today than it did in 1953 it was my first time seeing the tornado video when I was little
I’m from Dallas. Love the 1950’s video of my city, but at a time that makes it totally unrecognizable to me, even as the narrator calls out areas I drive in often. So cool!
I too am from Dallas! I know about the twister of '57.
@@j.fhernandez3457hey 👋there have. You ever seen A ef5 tornado 🌪 before I’m just woundering ok 👌 sr it’s 3:18pm right. Now in my state I’m from Dayton Ohio usa 🇺🇸
I swear the sirens are creepier than the tornadoes
There are particularly eerie ones in Wisconsin, they alternate between several notes as the siren spins in circle, and it sounds creepy as hell.
It's possibly similar to the blitz in britain during world war two. Knowing there are bombers above you but not knowing where the bombs will fall.
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Well they were built for civil defense so it should be a little scary
@@anarchistatheist1917i think they were air raid sirens. They're very effective so there wasn't a need to really change them.
This is like being reunited with an old friend, I used to watch this VHS all the time. How cool.
Alright, but the sheer hue of yellow and the multiple vintage sirens (along with whatever that deeper sound is) in that second clip at 0:13 already had me terrified. Can't wait to see what else there is in this whole collection
Sirens are Thunderbolt 1000T if you're curious, and that was the Grand Island tornado.
@@choppalungon Alright, I thought so. Thunderbolts are one of the most chilling sirens out there. Also it seems like that audio was dubbed in, since it sounds pretty suburban but looks like it's just out by a field. Regardless, it's super creepy
Some of the older tornado films are truly terrifying in a macabre and haunting way
This video was one of the big reasons I became interested in studying tornadoes and severe weather. It was definitely one of most informative and well-made tornado documentaries of its time, and, best of all, presents everything in a way that isn't scary or sensationalized. It also covers several topics that even modern tornado docs don't mention much, such as how multiple vortices form and how early tornado research led to the creation of Doppler radar.
I like how, of all the tornado films and videos included, the video in the title sequence is of a tornado over Lake Norman in North Carolina (where I'm from!). "Ah, that's bad news right there."
Poyekhali919 Missourian here, sounds just about right. To us seeing a tornado on our porch is just an excuse to crack open a beer and enjoy the show.
Poyekhali919 I had no idea that first tornado in this video was on lake norman. I lived in and grew up in Huntersville, and watched this video all the time. Do you have any more information about that lake norman tornado? Was it part of an outbreak? Perhaps the the 84 outbreak in NC? Speaking of that outbreak, I live in greenville nc now and apparently a large F4 tornado hit greenville nc during that outbreak and killed 16 people. I had no idea, amazing.
Accostrophe When I first got Tornado Video Classics on VHS (back in ye olden days), it came with a nice guide that had information about every tornado in the video. The Lake Norman video on the title screen was taken on March 7, 1992. This was one of two weak tornadoes in the Lake Norman area that afternoon; it was on the ground intermittently between Denver and Cornelius, and did just F1 damage, mostly to trees. No other tornadoes were reported in North Carolina that day.
The March 28, 1984 tornado outbreak mostly affected the eastern part of the state (there were 14 tornadoes in NC in that one). Did you know that the Greenville tornado (which first touched down near LaGrange in Lenoir County) is still the second deadliest single tornado in North Carolina history?
Poyekhali919 Thank you so much for the info on that Lake Norman tornado! Also, I knew the Greenville tornado was bad but I had no idea it was that bad! If it was the second deadliest tornado in NC history, what is the first?
Accostrophe You're welcome! :-)
The deadliest NC tornado was all the way back on February 19, 1884. A major tornado outbreak hit several states in the Southern U.S., including North Carolina. The worst tornado of the outbreak in NC struck several small communities south and east of Rockingham, and killed at least 23 people (and probably more - it's hard to tell about something that far in the past, but some estimates put the final death toll at 30 to 40). Other killer tornadoes touched down in the area from Concord to central Johnston County; Wake County had at least two tornadoes, one near Cary (which was a tiny town at the time), and another at present-day Wake Crossroads, SW of Rolesville.
Oh I was listening to thunderbolt federal siren videos and wondering where I first heard those types of sirens... on those tornado videos I used to watch as a kid. Never thought I would find this video again. I took a shot in the dark and typed in "old tornado videos" and here it is, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for bringing me back!
Were those Federal sirens in the very beginning?
@@Radiogirl1931 There was a combination of different sirens. I don't really know any of them except the thunderbolt because it sounds so awesome and dreadful.
FS Thunderbolt 1000 T is one of my favorites...
@@BKofficer23 in the first clip of the video I'm pretty sure there was an ACA Hurricane 130 also sounding off
@@PN20____ It's not a ACA Hurricane 130 you were talking about, It's actually a Federal Signal Model 2T. The windup isn't too fast and doesn't have any rotation like a Hurricane does, That video was shot in Grand Island, Nebraska and there is a few threads on the ARS forums that discuss that video in particular and one even has a link to a recording of the same Model 2T but in a different video, I hope this helps.
The section on multiple vortex tornadoes is amazing. Such great footage.
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I've heard that tornadoes sound like waterfalls over plains, jets over forests, and trains over cities. I can confirm, being hit by a small one once, that the truly dominant sounds are the rain and warning sirens.
The best 100% on point sound I compare them to is a Boeing 727-200 with all three engines with full thrust reversers on.
"Faster? No-yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, lots faster, lots faster!" The most classic line in the movie xD
That line was worthy of the T-Rex chase in "Jurassic Park".
In proper Southern, you'd best simply say *"GUN IT!"*
Yes, and they could have easily outrun that tornado if they had really wanted to. Fact!!
70 80 90 are best because of
#1 video quality
#2 crazy footage
#3 commentary
This music tho it's very wizard of oz flyinmonkeys type shit
#4 camera guys not trying to get killed like they're on jackass
#5;the era is bronze
Love these vintage science documentaries. Just hearing the music themes used and even the voice over sound gives major nostalgia vibes. Also reminds me of the Dharma initiative videos from LOST. Thanks for the upload. Also disclaimer do not trust the science or even safety warnings. DO NOT HIDE UNDER AN UNDERPASS!! Please check out updated science and safety warnings!!
0:52 “You got this on camcorder?” “Yeah”
Love that 90s lingo
I miss it tbh.
@@hayleyscomet3447 I miss the 90s just about every day. Such a great time.
@@imhooks Agreed.
I want my 90s back!
@@hayleyscomet3447 I have a question for you have you ever seen a tornado in person I'm just wondering ok
i like these old classics because the people shooting them act so casual, its easy to imagine them as if its sunny and a light breeze sipping beers and sodas, not like nowadays where everyone is like" OMG A TORNADO WOW LOOK AT THAT!!!!!!!! "versus " hey look its a tornado, where's it goin?
+Alex Lubbers
I totoally agree with you on that one.
ikr if i eversee a tornado in the distance i would not scream, id tell my family there's a tornado and make us some popcorn and soda to watch the show. then take cover if the tornado get's too close.
+Alex Lubbers It's probably because they think if they act crazy and unruly their video will end up being more popular.
Now, if I did ever see one, I would be going crazy, as tornadoes are one of my favorite weather phenomena.
me too
ill have a look! Sounds interesting!
I bought this collection back in 1997-1998. All three videos and the huge book.
I've got an interesting observation...these old videos often show the destruction of buildings and houses, and the videos of today don't really show that much at all. I've watched 100s of tornado vids, and they show tornadoes getting close to structures, but seldom show the actual damage. I thought maybe it was to be tactful and not show people's property and or lives being obliterated, but they aren't shy about showing the damage after the storm. Kind of perplexing, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed this?
This is an interesting observation. It maybe that early on a lot of the available film was taken by people in or around the path (living in an area with structures) and the stuff now is mostly chased across fields.
@nutsackmania hey 👋 there have. You ever seen a tornado 🌪 in person before I'm just wondering
OK 👍 👌 🙆🏻♂️ Sr I. Saw A funnel cloud spinning near my house 🏠 but. The tornado didn't touch the ground OK Sr
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this. I obsessed over this as a kid and got this from the library every chance I could.
VHS were so cool. Pop one in and grab some popcorn, learn about the world around you
Oh thank you for bringing this video back; I thought that it was removed due to copyright reasons. Now I can watch it again.
Same man, was in the mood to rewatch it and couldn’t find it. Happy to see I’m not the only one!
Very cute to the amount of damage or how far cars of the 70's had been thrown in the tornado, with then being made of heavy metal verses the plexy and plastic of today.
I've always been amazed at how much the safety tips for people have changed from just the 70's time to now. we went told much in school back then except to get under a desk or go to the hallways and choice or head while facing the walls. it certainly makes me grateful to those chasers and weatheroligist that have changed how we stay as safe as possible and wrong to build new building materials in hopes of keeping our homes and businesses safe as possible.
I had this on vhs and watched it all the time as a kid. Hella psyched to find it on youtube.
@ 4:02 + look at how violently that car was thrown by the tornado. because of the speed, It looked like it was just a canvas car cover. Plus the sound of the wind being sucked under the overpass sent a chill down my spine
I bought this video on VHS way back in the day when we used to get a lot more tornadoes than we do today. Classic slow mo "Geeeet unnnnder theeee girrrrrders".
Thank you so much for uploading this and its two sequel videos.
I have not been able to watch them in so long because no one makes video tape players anymore
That Gull Lake video will always be one of my favorites. Drunk guys going "Get away from the windows!".
Chives5150
And then there was Jimmy Two Times, he got that name because he would say the same thing twice such as “I’M 10 FEET FROM IT, I’M 10 FROM IT!!”
@Nick Howley And the one guy still saved his beer!
I thought the same thing.
How many ninety's videos have some dick with a beer in hand , running from the windows carefully not to spill any keystone light
@@RAWNERVZ - Ha! Too many..
First time viewer here. Thank you so much for putting this video together. Absolutely fascinating to see and learn about these. Especially love the old footage. Great video
I never knew how close that movie twister was to the actual way that they understood tornadoes..... That is so awesome tip my hat to the storm chasers of all kinds.....
You know these are old when they measure the length of video recordings in FEET instead of minutes and hours
Hey 👋 there have you ever seen a tornado 🌪 in person before I'm just wondering OK 👍 👌 🙆♀️ I saw a funnel cloud spinning near my house 🏠 on October 8 2021 but the tornado didn't touch the ground thank God no damages reported
6:47 the tornado wind sounds was taken at Warner Robins Georgia AFB in 1953
I would love to travel back in time to tell these guys that in 2020, everybody will have a camcorder in their pocket.
Also tell them about the pandemic
Tell them congress can no longer define "woman".
@@1SpicyMeataballhave you ever seen a tornado 🌪 in person before I'm just wondering 🤔 💭 OK 👍 👌 🙆♂️ merry early Christmas 🎄 and a happy new year 🎉
@@OLDCCHANNELI just subscribed to your UA-cam channel OK 👍 👌 🙆♂️ Sr
@@DanielleFlack ok thank you?
I’m elated finding this to see so many other fellow tornado enthusiasts here ! I didn’t have this as a child but I loved tornadoes and still find them fascinating today as an adult
Never been a better collection. In all my years, this reigns Supreme!
I grew up madly obsessed with these forces of nature and all it took was being in one (the Tuscaloosa) to never want to see another. Now if I could stop watching these videos...I dunno
Hey there how are you doing right now I’m just going to be a bud lol
I hear you! Had an EF2 just three miles SE of me in October of 2019, and the 2011 Joplin abomination directly North. But they fascinate me!
Tornadoes looked more frightening back then for some reason
The footage wasnt overedited. Just the raw footage. Nowadays, lighting, pixelation, and sound make a lot of vids not worth watching...
Maybe because of the audio quality and the slight yellow to it
They appeared more black, plus the fact that it's film and not digital images
Thank you so much for uploading this video! Growing up, my parents had this VHS tape and would watch it countlessly throughout my childhood. I remember this so vividly, it brings back so many memories. Thank you.
Same here, I even remember the music during the water spout section lol. What a nostalgia trip.
The music is so nostalgic to me..!
The water spout theme is so relaxing!
27:40
I got a VHS like this for Christmas when I was a kid. I don't remember it having a voiceover though. It had the clip of the TV crew hiding under the overpass that made people think that was a good idea.
I am SO glad this is preserved.
I love the old documentaries. Nowadays you get a 10 minutes of a tornado footage and 50 minutes of drama.
I had this VHS when I was a kid, WOW brings back so many memories
When this video was made the Andover tornado was still the definitive tornado. Look how far we've come since then!
The Andover tornado and Xenia tornado along with the Bridge-Creek tornado are the tops of my list. The Tri-State tornado of 1925 is up there too but there isn't a huge amount of information about that one.
Hearing the sirens is about as scary as seeing a tornado!
Ya think that was terrifying you should hear the sirens in Dougherty county we just got an update on our sirens
0:40 this was also featured on a national geographic special and was uncensored. Guy said "Holy fawk" a few times.
Wow, awesome classic footage. We don't have tornadoes in Australia.. we do but they're so rare and short lived by comparison we don't and they aren't a concern. Our burden's mainly fires and floods. We find tornadoes fascinating and I'd love to visit the U.S and see one. However, seeing the destruction and tragic loss of life these things cause reminds me that although they're an awesome spectacle of nature's power, they're also devastating and terrible for people and property. April seems to be a bad time for tornadoes, stay safe.
The 50s Dallas Texas tornado music is still better than some music I hear put with recent tornadoes.
Even thirty years ago, people had enough of a morbid fascination of natural disasters to make a VHS tape compilation, like a proto-UA-cam.
It's weird seeing Dallas without hardly any building.
I was in Andover a year after that tornado and you could easily still tell where the damage was. The trees were stripped, which will never have been saved.
The footage starting at 1:14:06 is just incredible incredible footage! As are some of the shots in the few couple minutes prior --- this was a really really good documentary! Hell it's better than a lot of stuff out now to a point and helps appreciate what are the science in general came from and continued from, etc. Really awesome!!
My dad was born in 1953 after the Warner Robbins georgia tornado happened. While my mom was born in 1957 less then a week after the Dallas Texas tornado happened. I was born approximately 1.5 months after the Barneveld Wisconsin F5 Tornado occured shortly after midnight on June 8th 1984.
I love VHS footage of tornadoes, and the sirens make it really eerie
Anyone else find these older, lower quality videos somehow make it more terrifying? .
oh god, it's the same guy from Twister Nature's Fury and Twister: Fury On The Plains, and i mean this on both announcer, producer, writer and archive help.
i still have the VHS of fury on the plains
holy smokes i used to have those,lol
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I have all those videos. Thought I was the only one.
David Ross is the narrator.
Just what I've always wanted “tornado classics", thanks UA-cam
I saw dust devil tornadoes when my dad, my sister, and I were driving from the Grand Canyon.
Dude, dust devils aren’t tornadoes
Cool
"I'm 10 feet away from the Tornado... I'm 10 feet away from the Tornado...(Even though the video shows it about a couple hundred yards away)." That guy had some serious depth perception problems. Probably walleye vision issues.
EdwardoNorton: lmao on your comment.
Lmao
As long as we're aquainted don't call me mark call me marco
I always thought that was so funny!
He might have been IN the tornado. The actual tornadic winds extend pretty far outside the visible funnel.
i live in Centerville Ga right next to warner robins.....my mom and dad both saw that tornado in 1953 which killed 19 people.....they said they were scared half to death because they were on a small 2 lane road (247 for those that know) coming back from macon.
+Maxx Madd cool i saw the ef4 tornado struck Americas sumter in 04
I had the vhs version of this.. :)
man i watched that as a kid millions of times. Ususally borrowing it from the library.
hyperkid321 literally exact same reason I searched for this online. God bless the internet. lots of nostalgia
I remember growing up, seeing that “underneath the girders” video a thousands times featured in every tornado video. I wonder how many people that video got killed.
Probably not as many as our government has during Covid
Thanks for having this available! I had Volumes I through III on VHS.
I used to rent these video's when I went to van Antwerp middle school library in Niskayuna NY both this and the volume 2 tornado video classics these are so cool
Holy crap. I saw this video in high school science class 25 years ago. Thanks for the upload
I had the vhs set and converted it to dvd so i can still watch them. DVD versions are available at some city libraries but i've never found any for sale so i made my own. Just in time too. My then wife decided to put a large speaker -magnet down on top of the steel storage box where i stored my old vhs's in my shed, Caused all my old vhs's to be weirdly distorted.
I still have this VHS tape since it first came out!!
Same here
"Oh what a classic!" 1:05:35 I remember (fondly) this particular segment from a NatGeo feature on tornadoes that came out around this time when I was a kid. And I think Howie Bluestein has little tornadoes on his T-shirt?
That NatGeo feature you're thinking of was called "Cyclone" if I remember correctly. Watched the tape so much that I broke it 👍😁
@@csbartonorgan83 Cyclone, you're correct.
That’s hilarious. The hook echo is 20 times visibly more prevalent on a 1060s radar than in modern times.
Wow i have these on a vhs somewhere. I used to watch this like crazy as a little kid. “Get them kids in a basement. Get em in that closet”. Lmao. I been lookin for this video. Ive been quoting this for years!!!!!
and one time my dad said "you idiots go to the toilet" while we had a tornado warning, the tornado warning was too late, this was in 1991, sometimes and even now tornado warning sirens go off too late in Oklahoma
I used to watch these three tapes all the time
I've searched for these videos for so long. Im almost 17 and live in Tornado Alley I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I haven't seen these videos since i was 6. I'd like to see the one where it includes how to build your own tornado out of dry ice.
For real me too I just found them last night. This was the tape that got me into tornados so long ago in the 1990s.
Some one needs to give last guy a measuring tape. I don't think he knows how far 10 feet is.
I am still in awe of weather and storms today but the VHS tapes I watched as a kid in the 90's filled my head with wonder and curiosity.
The video of the underpass in Kansas is one of those videos that have become iconic.
Thanks for uploading this up YorkVid.
I love ❤️ tornadoes 🌪 video I hope 🤞 you have a great 👍 day lol 😂
I am so glad this is up here! Thank you so much. Heather
Tornadoes look creepier on a grainy VHS tape than filmed in HD on a modern camera.
Images of tornadoes recorded on motion picture film like the Dallas 1957 tornado are even more grainy.
Didn't even know they got 15 minute warnings all the way back in the 50s. Wow.
0:13 that's awesome footage!
Has anyone seen the full clip at 0:14? Such an interesting perspective with the start of the tornado sirens sounds insane…
i think it’s the grand island 1990 tornado
@@user-io3gv4kk8d thanks!, i didn't know where to start but ive managed to find it after you gave the name so thank you.
Imagine this narrator reading a bed time story....lol
Or a ghost story.👻
From EVERY boring projector film you had to watch in school lol
The first siren is incredibly bone-chilling to me..
Same
That low rolling bass beneath it
The sound of storms in my youth.
That sound would strike absolute terror in us kids back then.
That's the sound of a thunderbolt 1000T they are the most famous siren ever
The first tornado on film was actually in Cuba around 1933.
That wasn't known at the time this was made. It's aknowledged in part 3
@@ISLAVERDE29hey 👋 there have you seen a tornado 🌪 in person before I'm just wondering 🤔 💭 OK 👍 👌 🙆♀️ Sr
One day in school in my science class, they brought a TV and a VHS tape of this for us to watch for the rest of the class.
Nice
Man: "Oh my goodness"
Kid: "What is that?!"
Man: "That's a cloud"
Me: LMAO!
He's not wrong... ;3
Later... “I THINK that’s a funnel cloud!”
Edmonton, July 31, 1987
our library had all 3 of these videos, and if I wasn't watching one on one of their TVs, I had at least 1 of them checked out on my card and was watching them at home.
this music i will never forget
when i was a little kid in ms. a tornado passed within a few hundred ft of our house my father a ww2 veteran stood at the back door and watched it pass throwing cars cows and buildings up into the sky as we were all huddled in fear then he turned and went to bed
Other from the Weather Channel, which i started watching constantly in 1992, this was my first time ever witnessing tornado videos. Have both Volumes 1 and 2 (was there a part 3)? I've recorded dozens and dozens of shows from Discovery and TLC.......amazing.
+Robert Anderson yes there is a part three i have it
Yes, can you believe that TLC and the Weather Channel used to actually show things like this??
I wish more of these video classics would be made today. There's been so much amazing footage since the time these were released that it's a shame that no one has made more of these documentaries.
When I heard the narrator say 'Toto" I thought... Did this guy narrate PBS Nova's "Hunt for the Super Twister"?
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Holy crap I have that VCR! it's a Panasonic AG-6400