Wicked: The Devastating 1953 Flint - Beecher F5 Tornado
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A tornado outbreak you may want to study is the 1967 outbreak in northern Illinois. There were F4s in Oak Lawn, Lake Zurich, and Belvidere. I will warn you, though, that the latter tornado's impact is particularly upsetting, as it struck a school just as the students were getting out. I met someone who was a student at the time and the description she gave me was gruesome. So I understand if you don't want to study it, I just thought I'd let you know about another potential video topic. Thanks for all the great videos! I appreciate how much time and dedication you put in to not only telling these stories, but telling them with compassion.
I saw an episode of "Storm Stories" on The Weather Channel about the 1967 Belvidere, IL tornado and was horrified by the storm as well as grief-stricken over the fatalities.
I was a kid in Dearborn Heights, MI when this outbreak happened. We were under tornado watches that day. School was dismissed early for us, and the weather got really bad once I got home. We didn't have a tornado, but there were multiple sightings of funnel clouds, including one I saw. (Jan Griffiths).
I will always remember that day. I grew up 30 miles north of Belvedere, in Beloit, Wisconsin. I aced the weekly spelling test, so I got to leave school early. I remember how warm and muggy it was as I walked through the schoolyard to the street. I was so shocked and scared when I looked to the south, because the sky was so black, and what made it even more disturbing was the fact that I was the only kid outside the school, and it was so dark and quiet, and that was creepy. So I ran home as fast as possible. And although I’ve known and spoken to survivors in the past, I will of course only ever be able to simply imagine the hell that everyone endured on that horrific Friday afternoon in April of 1967...
I was 13 years old when the Belvedere tragedy happened. I grew up on a farm south west from there. It was a horrific and terrifying
It was a terrifying and even now I am haunted by that. I lived through tornadoes but the destroyed yellow buses in Belvedere gave me nightmares as I was on a farm and spent alot of time each day on one. Our school protocol changed after this and we had to stay in school in safe places until tornado watches and warnings passed
My name is Mike Holmes, my family was in the "Beacher" tornado. I was there. I was young, but what I saw is still in my mind. For over almost 20 years I had problems with hearing wind going thru screens on windows. I what I remember seeing that night is in black and white. Remembering see things thru the flashs of lighting. The lightning was very bright. Seeing the destruction I that time I could not understand what I was seeing. I saw death, terror, screaming. I was a time of my life I will never forget. There is much more to what I saw, but I have said enought for now. Yes we did lose family...thank you for showing parts of Beacher, but some parts you showed,I don't remember that many tall buildings. But I Still remember very much and can back up what I have seen, again Thank You for all that you are doing..keep it up for people such as Myself...
My brother Dar Eldred is also a young survivor. Kurtz Ave
My brother and I are survivors of this tornado. We were visiting our aunt and uncle, as we were from northern Michigan. The apartment building we were in was damaged enough not to be rebuilt. My aunt and uncle ended up buying their house a couple weeks later, still in the Beecher district. We were put in the bathtub with a mattress thrown over us. My aunt would lay down next to the bathtub with a mattress thrown over herself. My brother was 7, and I was 5and a half.
My brother Dar Eldred survives also. Kurtz Ave
Thank you for NOT removing the descriptions of the injuries. While horrible and gruesome, people need to know what can happen if you don't seek shelter. So many I talk to seem to think if you die, you are just a body lying on the ground. NO, most are shredded, large items impaling them or have hit them. Those who are sucked up in the tornado are dropped from 100's of feet, sometimes over 100 mph into the ground. Those who survive can be horribly disfigured for life. I get why the media over the years blocks out the deaths and injuries, out of respect, but we don't need photos of dead bodies but let people know that sometimes, often times, you need DNA to ID small chunks. This happened in Joplin. Tornadoes are deadly and devastating for those who are left behind.
This was very well done. My father and his family lost everything in this tornado. He was about 14 yrs old at the time. He can still recount it like it happened yesterday. They lived on Genesee & Coldwater Rd. They all made it to the root cellar and he clearly remembers the house being lifted away. Everyone was injured but only my great-aunt was hospitalized.
My dad was about 15 and lived in the Beecher area (not sure where). He saw it from his house before his mom made him come in and go to the basement. He said he didn't realize all tornados were not that big until he was well into his adult years. He talks about it all the time still.
Tornado touched down just down the road from my house I also live on Coldwater.
Sometimes green sky doesn't bring a tornado but sometimes it does. It's something that should get your attention directed at the weather.
I was born in 1961 and grew up in the Beecher area of Flint, MI. Every time there were tornado warnings we would go to the neighbors across the street to get in their basement. This storm was always talked about.
I was also born in 1961 and grew up not far from you in Flushing, MI. When I was a small child, all of the adults would get very concerned any time a thunder storm brewed up and there was always a great deal of talk about the possibility of a tornado.
That everyone had seemed so worried about tornadoes gave me something of a distorted picture about the actual risk of a tornado when I was small, leaving me with the impression that they were much more of a threat than they actually are.
I'd heard talk of the Beecher tornado, but didn't really understand how devastating it was until I was entering my teens. Then, it became clear why my parents had always worried when the weather was stormy.
@@silentotto5099 The Flint-Beecher tornado actually first touched down in Flushing. (Jan Griffiths).
I too 1961 and grew up with the stories and my families everlasting trauma from the EVENT of a lifetime.
I found your channel because I was specifically looking for something about this tornado. My dad is 85 and he lived in the Beecher area and saw the tornado from his home, which was not affected. He has had a fear of storms because of this. As a child I often remember him standing in the yard staring at the sky when bad weather was approaching. Even after hearing him talk about this tornado for years I did not realize how bad it really was until I watched your coverage of it. You did a nice job here and you talk very respectfully of those it affected.
This was the last tornado to kill over a hundred people in a single location that is until the Joplin tornado of 2011.
Also, Joplin stunned everyone in the weather interprise in that it happened in the "modern" era of severe storm forcasting. It just showed that a large death toll is still possible, even in the 21st century with advanced technology.
@@deborahhuckstep2379 Plus, it went down a main highway with lots of busy stores and restaurants on a Sunday evening. Just horrible.
Apparently, after watching the video, I saw that the Flint tornado did the same thing, but on a Monday evening.
@@5roundsrapid263 Two other reasons why the Joplin, Missouri tornado was so deadly are because it formed too quickly for the National Weather Service office in Springfield, Missouri to issue a Tornado Emergency for the city of Joplin. In addition the Joplin tornado was hidden in very heavy rain and difficult to see. However, I was rather humbled to learn that following his coverage of the aftermath of the Joplin tornado for The Weather Channel Mike Bettes adopted an orphaned Golden Retriever and named her Joplyn. Sadly, Joplyn died earlier this year from natural causes. Being an animal lover and a dog lover; I was understandably saddened by this news, but I reconciled my feelings of sadness by reminding myself that at least Joplyn was adopted by a loving family and lived in a home full of love and affection.
Yes it was. My parents were dating at the time this tornado occurred. My dad was a truck driver for Kroger markets at the time, and he and another driver took food to the area a couple days after the tornado. They lived in Dearborn MI. Dad took Mom's little Kodak Brownie camera along o take photos of the damage, and in color. I have the camera now (still works fine), and almost 2 albums worth of the photos he took. Both are deceased now. The tornado happened before my time---3 and a half years before, but dad told me of the horror of his experience. (Jan Griffiths).
My dad worked for the Flint Journal at the time. He took boxes of photos to the dumpsters. When we talked of the event years and years later, he said he wished he'd kept some of them because there were so few. He knew some of the folks affected by this storm. He didn't want their stories to be lost to time.
Wish many people would had kept treasures they'd found. Hugs
My family and I are from Detroit, but both my mom and dad said the Flint tornado was one of their earliest memories, as they were both toddlers at the time. My mom said she remembered spending most of the evening in the basement because it was so stormy all over southeastern lower Michigan. I pray that Michigan never experiences anything like that ever again.
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Yeah, my parents lived in Dearborn, and they remembered it being very stormy that evening. Mom was 23, and Dad was 25 at the time, and were dating. I was born 3 and a half years later in Dec. of 1956. I remember them telling me about it, as well as an aunt and uncle who lived in Saginaw. (Jan Griffiths).
That’s true. I was born in ‘49 and I remember the terrible thunderstorms we had in 1952 and 1953. It’s thought to be the cause of nuclear testing done in the desert. I remember being terrified of these storms. They were really fierce.
I live about 20 minutes north of Flint. They post an article in the local papers about that tornado every year of the anniversary. Flint definitely isn’t the city it used to be. There are a lot of areas you don’t really want to be in, however, there are some areas that are doing quite well and are generally considered to be a safer to be in. I love your videos btw! As a tornado enthusiast, I’m glad that you did a video on the notorious tornado from my home state❤
I can’t imagine the hours of research you put into these videos - I’m a PhD student and you put my research skills to shame! Your videos are always so well done and you handle difficult topics with such grace while also being factual and informative. Great job as always, and I hope your channel continues to grow!
My Great Grandfather was a Sheriff for Genesee county at this time. The stories that he passed down were horrendous. He said he would work on recovery and you often only found body parts of people and they were no where near where they should have been. He remembered the destruction and devastation for a long time. He said some people never recovered from a mental health standpoint. It was a terribly tragic event.
That’s so sad.
That is heartbreaking 😢
You may find the Charles City F5 from 1968 interesting as well. They basically followed it via radio stations and the report from it was absolutely fascinating. It was also the last F5 in Iowa before the Parkersburg EF5 in 2008 (which you have done).
The Jordan, Iowa tornado of 1976 was the last F5 in Iowa. Charles City was probably the last killer F5 tornado in Iowa.
I just turned 6 with Charles City tornado. My family of 7 just moved to a new home in Waterloo. I remember the look on my dad's face as he counted to make sure all 5 of his kids were there in the unfinished basement. I was so scared. I got my meteorology degree bc of it. Yes, a case study would be great.
@@ruthlerohl2767 Yes! I have a former colleague that still struggles with nightmares. She said she was 5 or 6 at the time and lived in town.
My name is Sharon. I was 15 months old when the Flint Tornado happened. I remember standing on the front seat of the car, watching the tornado as my mother drove us to my grandmother’s house. Trees, bricks, and even a telephone pole were some of the things I witnessed flying through the air.
I remember my parents and older brother talking about this storm. We grew up in Lenawee County so well south of this tornado, but apparently the bad weather extended down to the Ohio border with high winds, lightning and heavy rain. Mom said they were in the basement most of the evening into the small hours. At one point the pressure dropped so fast it popped all the doors open in the house, including the front door.
This storm system had another devastating tornado the next day---June 9, 1953, in Worchester, MA. It killed 94 people, and was rated an F4 (should have been F5 in my opinion). (Jan Griffiths).
Scary
In June of 1953, I was living about 70 miles from Flint, Michigan. I vividly remember my parents talking about this event as it unfolded. I was a young man during that time, but the Flint/Beecher tornado was a tragedy I shall never forget.
Thank you for covering this! My mom and grandparents talked often of this tornado. They had just moved to Flint. My mom had finished her school year in Arkansas and had literally been in Flint one day when this hit. She remembers being at a cousin’s house, sitting on the porch watching the entire north sky turn black and green that night. They all agreed it looked awful, but had no idea there had even been a tornado until about noon the next day. Information just didn’t move quickly back then. It is difficult for people nowadays to understand that back then people were ignorant of events even in the same town - there just wasn’t any way for the news to get to them. We are fortunate to live in a time where we have robust weather forecasting and instantaneous warnings. That said, an F5 is a deadly, deadly storm, even with shelter available. I hope we never see another here in Michigan.
Thank you for covering my state's worst disaster. To see how everyone got together and rebuilt in such short time restored my faith in humanity for today.
'Genesee' is derived from the Iroquois language which means 'beautiful valley'. It sure wasn't on that day.
Genesee county had 4 on the same day in 2013 - all were 1's and 2's with no injuries or fatalities. That's really super rare. The last F5 in Michigan was the Hudsonville tornado in 1956 and the last F4 was in 1977. Only had two F3's since 2000. Big ones are pretty rare here. We're far enough away from the Gulf of Mexico to not get that factoring in to their creation. The biggest blizzards we've gotten were when they tapped into that Gulf moisture which typically pumps up tornados in the south. We get derechos more than we get tornados - straight line winds.
The biggest natural disasters to hit Michigan were some huge wildfires but they were before the state got populated.
I'd also note that the Southern Michigan NWS offices, most particularly NWS Detroit is a bit overly cautious on granting EF-3 and higher ratings unless it's a high-end rating (ex. Dexter tornado was rated at 165 mph, borderline EF-4). As for why so many tornadoes are given high-end EF-2 ratings is beyond my knowledge base.
I agree. I actually had a neighbor who called NWS Detroit for an EF0 my neighbor and I watched touch down and rip through my backyard in Washtenaw county in June 2010. Tornado was small, weak and anticyclonic, which I have still never seen again since then. It uprooted hardwood fruit trees and caused roof and siding damage. NWS never surveyed my street only a house .3 miles away where you could not see us at all. Never took drone footage or an aerial survey, and ignored DTE engineers saying it was some of the worst tree damage they had seen. We had .25in hail too. It was insane and I watched most of it from the top floor. Worst they did not come to our address, (you know where we had a witnessed touchdown) and ruled the other damage straight line winds. It made me so mad I chased for almost 10 years to find another one like it. Everything similar I have seen was EF0-EF1. None anticyclonic though.
I went to Dexter High School, had to a half mile from a neighbor’s in quarter sized hail from that storm and nearly had a smaller funnel touch down on us. My friend’s house was completely destroyed, the devastation was nuts (having gone out to help with cleanup). I like the NWS, but I feel like NWS Detroit doesn’t really do very thorough damage surveys. I go out after storms now and take a lot of photos and talk with people because I think if damage survey locations were crowdsourced from online data we may be able to do much better analysis on these sorts of storms. As a data analyst I am also looking for a wider data set to refine down, I wish the NWS could do more of the same from publicly available data. People take a lot of photos of storms and talk about them. Why not use that?
i know this is an older video, but growing up in michigan with a lifelong love of tornados, this tornado is one of the most fascinating to me. my grandfather lived through it, and while the tornado missed his house by only a few miles, he remembers the destruction very vividly. i always remembered his stories as i grew up, and all your videos are absolutely incredible when it comes to speaking about these tornados!
Including Blaze and some bloopers at every end feels like a tiny bit of therapy and uplift after digesting the very serious content previous. Makes me reach for my kitties and puppy. Thank you.
Love your case studies on these tornados. You are so thorough and sensitive to the victims, but very clear and informative. I really look forward to your uploads. Hope you get to feeling better Carly!
This one was a really bad one for the people of Michigan. May 21,1953 Port Huron, Michigan Sarnia, Ontario got hit hard as well I believe it was an F-4 tornado.
The Port Huron/Sarnia tornado was rated as a F4. I live in Port Huron. The tornado is only known in the city of Port Huron it gets overshadowed by the Flint/Beecher.
I read that the 1953 port huron-sarnia tornado was when it crossed the border it was the largest tornado in canada. A full mile wide, a record that still stands.
Hey, we actually got to hear Blaze purring at the beginning of this one! Great way to start the documentary before getting into the doom & gloom that was the tornado.
Excellent video. Your coverage of the birth of tornado forecasting was really interesting! It’s hard to imagine what it must have been like living in tornado alley with no advance warning. Terrifying!
i live 20 minutes from downtown flint and beecher i never knew this happened outside of my grandma talking about it so thank you for making this video because i have learned so much about my local area that i never knew
The 1953 .Massachusetts outbreak was a unbelievable destroyer and hurt a lot of people
Just a note to the narrator: The first two e’s in Genesee County are pronounced with a short “e” sound, and the last two are with one long “e.” You did a great job documenting this tragedy, however.
We lived in Palatine on the very edge of the boonies. Still Holsteins across the driveway.
One morning mom woke us/dragged us to the SW corner of the house "There's a tornado coming", she yelled.
I looked at the ceiling to see my curtain flat as a board above me. I dont remember being scared, especially when she said we dont need to go to school.
Ever since, I've been almost obsessed with weather, especially Tornados.
I appreciate you making a point of talking about the injuried in these events, you don't usually get that from the media, the death tolls seem to be all they want to use when there could be a low death toll but 100s injured that have to deal with those for the rest of their lives
My mother was a teenager who lived through this tornado. She described some horrific sights. When I was a small child whenever there was even a tornado watch, she had all of us in the basement (ironically, we lived in a house built on the foundation of a house that had been destroyed by the storm) until it was over, she wasn't taking any chances.
Thank you for always mentioning the injured. So many people think of injured as cuts, bruises, etc. I'm from Michigan. There were so, so many horrific, life altering injuries. Thank you for what you do so that people in all these Tornado events are not forgotten.
Really interesting Carly, I haven't actually looked into this event. Learned a lot about it! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this!! Very close to home, and this tornado gets very little attention. Michigan hasn't had The Big One for a long time now...
I lived in Dearborn Heights, MI as a kid, and we had a couple of F2s in the mid 60s. Took roofs off of a lot of homes, lots of tree damage, broken windows, sheds and garages destroyed. I went through both of them. Alone (both parents at work). Right at the start of summer vacation. Thank goodness we had a basement with a fortified stairwell. (Jan Griffiths).
You always post when I’m waking up, on my days off. I love it! You’re great Carly
I love that you bring up the injuried most people skip right over Them as if they are less important than the ones who lost their life these people need acknowledgement too and support
I grew up hearing about this tornado, but couldnt find much info until this video. I was never aware that its path went so far to the east, even cutting right through Richfield park. I go through Richfield Corners on my daily commute.
And the same storm system would make its way to the East Coast where there was a reckoning in Worcester Massachusetts.
I really wanted to fit in Worcester, BUT after looking at it, I felt like it deserved its own video!
@@carlyannawx Will there be a future video about the 1953 Waco, Texas F-5?
@@carlyannawx Thank you for saving the Worcester tornado for a video of its own. If you need any resources for Worcester, I can't recommend this book enough: "Tornado! 84 Minutes, 94 Lives" by John M. O'Toole. Also the TV station near Boston, WCVB, did a 50th anniversary presentation -- I expect this video may be online somewhere. Their chief meteorologist, Harvey Leonard, just retired but he was one of the hosts, and it was excellent.
Cool to see you going back in the history books. Between this storm, the Waco tornado about a month earlier and Worcester, MA (which happened the very next day due to the same storm system that spawned the Flint storm) 1953 ranks as one of the worst tornado years on record.
Also add in the F5 that struck Vicksburg, Mississippi in December of 1953 and the F4 that killed 13 in San Angelo, Texas on the same day as the Waco tornado.
Another twister worth covering is that on July 18, 2001 which devastated the town of Siren, Wisconsin. Not to add any pun but the salt on the wound for that town was that their siren was offline due to lightning damage from a previous storm.
Seeing blaze calm at the beginning makes me realize they’re two sides of him 🤣One where he is calm in your arms and Two is when he goes feral when seeing squirrels on your tv 😂
LMAO 🤣 😂😂
I was living in Milford, MI, at the time, as a child. Milford was hit by another tornado prior to the Flint/Beecher storm. Michigan State Police had started for Milford to assist there until they were notified of what happened in Flint.
This is one I had no clue about, I've only ever seen small snippets from documentaries about it.
Also Flint has had it rough over the decades...yowch. Is that town snakebit or something when it comes to brutal disasters that didn't end well.
Carly, I think the politics/laws surrounding tornado forceasting and the ban could make for its own podcast episode. So could the story of the 1949 forecasts.I know you touched on it in the video but I would love a deep dive into both.
The amazing thing of the 1949 tornado warning was they were spot on withh with it. Harry Volkmann argued back and forth with his producer or station manager, I forget which, about going on the air to deliver a tornado warning. Some sources state Harry would have been arrrested if his boss hadn't agreed to take the rap for it, just because the word tornado was allowed didn't change that much, at least from the research I've done.
EDIT: Harry was 1952, and forcasting, not foreasting. Thank you kitten on keyboard batting at fingers.
We have character that's for sure.
I have been watching your videos since the first one and I love your work and passion for these tonadic events. Just wanted to say you did a wonderful job on the Flint Tornado. I was born and raised here in michigan and I really feel you captured the event well and were very respectful and professional with the stories that came from that event along with the Flint water crisis and the automotive pull out. This hit close to home and I am thankful to see you create a documentary on the biggest tornadic event in Michigan.
Please continue creating your videos and spreading awareness. ♡ You are so talented! Also Hello to Blaze ♡.
Hey Carly.
Im actually from Worcester county- only 10 mins or so from where the Worcester tornado hit. Just last night my dad and I came across newspapers that my grandmother/father had collected over the years and it reminded me of this. We have 3-4 complete newspapers (we havent gone through them all in depth, yet...). If youre interested in some material, feel free to hmu and maybe i can help out a bit... A Worcester video would be fantastic!
So few people these days even know that we have had a tornado. They just dont happen up here.
But yea, if youd like some material I can certainly help out as much as possible. I really do like your channel, Id be happy to.
Thank you for your videos!
So glad I found your channel… in top of your concise and thorough presentation… I wanted to compliment you on your musical scoring of your episodes! The music, compliments, perfectly the subject matter and your descriptions throughout your episodes!…. Well done ! I am most definitely a subscriber now😊
Incredible storytelling once again, thank you.
10:20 - I saw what you did there Carly!
Nice job blending the tornado stop frame with the structure damage photograph.
I dig that you focus on the traumatic human element of the ravaging storms and how they can change a person, not always for the best, having survived the chaos.
Thank you.
☕thank you Carly (& thank you Blaze for helping Carly)
a high standard of informal + classy; I have re-watched or re-listened to all your presentations multiple times & there's very few channels with content sufficiently interesting to do that
My great grandma lives about half an hour from flint, she said the sky was a crazy orange color all day while this was happening
Woo! Like #100!! Great case study of a tornado that doesn't get talked about much. You have the best presentation for these, and really cover a lot of aspects of these storms very well! I think these are the storms that brought about the Worcester, Mass tornado!
Yep, the Worcester tornado was formed by this same system the next day. It was just as devastating, and should have been rated an F5. It killed 94 people. (Jan Griffiths).
Very honest and forthright presentation. Extremely well done.
My father grew up in MT Morris MI a farm community outside Flint and witnessed the Tornado from a distance along with some friends smoking at his picnic table. My Mom grew up in Flint about 5 miles south of Beecher but, recalls the eerie greenish skies...I write that because fear of Tornadoes was ingrained in all local kids growing up... We had a table in our basement along the SW corner along with candles, flashlights and a radio...
Great video on this devastating storm. My parents lived in Dearborn MI at the time. I wasn't born yet, but my parents and an aunt and uncle who lived in Saginaw told me about it. (Jan Griffiths).
Love how you cover different aspects of each tornado case. From weather forecasting, storm chasers, recovery etc. Great work. Thank you.
I absolutely did not know that the change happened because of Tinker getting hit back then, what's even more mind-boggling is watching the 99 tornado get right to the edge of tinker and just go straight North, essentially doing no damage to the base then in 2013, get to the edge of the base and lift. Very very strange so there's two there and then two that nailed it in the past, really fascinating!!
I am from Flint Michigan and remember the stories about this tornado from my parents and greanparents. I used to be a storm chaser, I was certified through NOAA. This tornado was the the first and last F5 in michigan. I personally have never seen a tornado larger than an F3.
I haven't renewed my certification but keep threatning to.
Tornadoes are violant and unpredictable so leave it to those of us trained to chase them as it truly is a dangerous thing to be doing and is not for the faint of heart
There was a tornado that struck Oakwood and Ortonville Michigan in the 1890s that was rated F5 and the 1956 tornado that struck Hudsonville and Steubandale was also an F5. (I go by the ratings given to them by Thomas Grazulias. I have no idea what the NWS has rated them.)
Another awesome video Carly, I'm always looking forward to watching your videos :-) by the way I love your kitty cat Blaze 🐱 🐈 so cute!!!
Exceptionally informative and professionally delivered, as always. Thank you so much Carly! 💜
Hoping you will have a future video for another other 1953 tornado. The June 9, 1953 Worcester Tornado which tore through central Massachusetts with devastating damage and just under 100 fatalities. It struck the day after the Flint/Beecher Tornado and remains to this day the single worst tornado event in New England weather history.
I live in Michigan and some people think that we don't have so many tornadoes, but trust me I live in an area of the state and I have experienced 5 confirmed tornadoes in 10 years
Yes. Michigan here also. Some BARELY get a mention on the News. But yes, we get them.
My mom was in this tornado. She was only six but she remembers it. The whole neighborhood was demolished except for her house. She lost a friend.
Thank you for creating so many fantastic documentaries! When I think I’ve seen them all, another always pops onto my Home feed, met with an excited smile by me. Very cool of you!
For other killer tornadoes of 1953, Waco was just as deadly as Flint-Beecher. That might be worth covering. What made Vicksburg unusual is that the tornado occurred in December. As longtime Vicksburg resident Marie Renaud said before the 60th anniversary of the storm, "They had always said that Vicksburg would never have a tornado because of the river." Unfortunately, she and many other Vicksburg residents found out the hard way that wasn't the case at all. The tornado in Vicksburg on the evening of December 5, 1953, was categorized as an F5. 38 people were killed and 270 others were injured.
I really enjoy your content. Thank you for putting these videos together!
I just found this after requesting it earlier today lol! Very close to home. Stoked to watch!!! Thank you for this!
Wow I never heard of this one. How tragic! Injuries are so important to talk about and study because we need to know how to better prevent them. So thank u!
Anyone notice that just as each event is different- so is her look each time ! I’ve just noticed that and I think it’s a great touch !
It’s so heartbreaking watching this knowing the state of flint now and the refusal to send aid to residence who have lead contaminated water
The content just keeps getting better and better, thank you!
thank you so much! that means a lot!
Oh, I remember this tornado was featured in the Weather Channel special called Target Tornado.
Target Tornado?? Oh I have to check that out now lol
@@carlyannawx It was one of a series of VHS specials released around 1994-1996. Someone has posted all of them to TH-cam at some point. I'll have to go find them and watch them again, they were a big part of my childhood.
@tarasaurus98 Memory unlocked!
I’ve never heard of this one. Excellent video, thank you! ❤
I Love your channel and how you present every tornado event. I Would love for you to look into the f5 standale/ hudsonville tornado of 1956.
Very good narration with the illustrations, news accounts and photos of the era.
I'm glad you added that footnote about the Worcester tornado of the same outbreak and that you're likely gonna cover it. I was gonna ask about it
Carly Anna WX an excellent video about this tornado. The best about this tornado I've seen.
the older lady describing finding her daughter and husband dead made me sob :(
Thanks for the complete take on the city of Flint.
Hello Carly! I've been watching so many of your videos, my spouse has banned me from watching ANY tornado videos upstairs. Good thing I have a big screen TV installed in the pole barn!!!
There is this interesting family story my father has told a few times whenever the subject comes up. My grandfather owned a large construction company in Flint at the time. My father and his brother, both in high school, were allowed to borrow a new Chevrolet pickup from the company after school, but they weren't very good about parking it behind the locked gates when they were done with it. Apparently the truck was not insured, it probably wasn't required, but my grandfather had threatened to take it away from them if they didn't stop leaving it overnight outside the locked gates. The day of the tornado, guess what, they left it outside the gates. The tornado damaged buildings and equipment behind the fence, but left the pickup unscathed. My Dad said they used it to go help rescue people, and they never heard anything about having left it out ever again.
I do think this is one of the worst tornadoes because it wiped out entire families as they were in their basements. There is a reason this event was voted Michigan's worst natural disaster of the last century. You covered it very well and compassionately. I await your covering of the 1956 Hudsonville-Standale tornado.
What a devastating tornado in 1953....and what amazing, caring people in 1953.
You are doing some amazing research and analysis through your videos. Keep it up, and I am hoping that you would consider doing a video on the 1953 Worchester MA tornado which occured a day after the Flint- Beecher tornado.
I love these case studies Miss Carly!
Thank you Carly, you have a wealth of knowledge on this topic.
I live 30 min. from Flint. My parents remember this tornado. We are east of Flint on the mouth of Lake Huron.
I am still baffled that the word tornado was banned. It just blows my mind.
Another very informative video in the documentary style, Carly. If I can make a suggestion, could a presentation on the Smithville EF5 be in the forthcoming works as a possibility? If not, I understand. I hope I don't sound demanding or something and I'm very careful about that when I ask these sorts of questions. I've talked about it a lot as with many others I'm sure on not just your channel, but plentiful amounts in the weather community and some of the anomalous feats with it are still hard to grapple with any kind of discernible internalization even for weather nerds and people who've had a lifelong passion for studying the atmosphere myself. While the peak width basically was three quarters of a mile wide if not verging on the precipice of a mile at its hindmost intensity, allegedly the core was said to be just a couple hundred yards with its size and yet it still did almost incomprehensible damage going almost seventy miles per hour. And as soon as the main condensation funnel did visibly reach the ground it instantaneously began producing high end EF5 level destruction past debris granulation and such. 'Part of the reasons for most of the discreet cells that day for the 2011 Super Outbreak was due to the already lower than usual cloud bases among other parameters with the earlier QLCS storms in the morning that were already overperforming. There's a very good video created by the Tornado Forensics team on literally every aspect of the time-lapse with it. Thanks again for all of the high quality content, Carly and take care.
Love your stuff, never stop being you. On a side note, what is it about water towers that seems to make them miss tornadoes by a few feet every time? :)
I wouldn't doubt that tanks of water have anti-tornadic properties. Water is very magical. Have you noticed a recurring theme?
Great video as always! I recommend either the Mayfield Tornado or the Washington, Illinois tornado.
Your the best ever with these I’ve been into storms for years 👌🏾
This Flint tornado was very catastrophic, your presentation will stick with me for a long time. Great choice of music Carly
Thank you for covering this! Feel like you never see a lot about tornados that have hit Michigan and I’ve always wanted to learn more about this one as someone who lives here.
In that same year, a similar tornado also hit a town in Massachusetts. Please cover this.
This is some of the worst storm damage I’ve ever seen
I live in Vicksburg, Mississippi. An F-5 tornado hit the city in 1953 killing 38. My mother missed being killed by that twister because she wasn’t able to go to the movies with her friends that Saturday as they always did together. She’s in her 80s now and still recalls the girls she was friends with being killed when the theater took a direct hit. She would have been sitting next to her friend that a wall was collapsed upon. 😮
Hello Carly, I subscribed immediately on your first video, I just haven’t written, only once. I love that you research your videos and explain them with details. So interesting! I am wishing you a wonderful upcoming Thanksgiving and hope you enjoy the season ☺️ Thank You for All Your Hard Work, 🥰 Chris
1953 outbreak was a bad one and rough year, downtown Waco TX was hit then also with damage
❤thank you!!!❤my family was in the heart of this storm and your coverage was honestly presented. I have shared your coverage with my only surviving family member now. Darwin Eldred. I hope you hear from him via email possibility.
God bless you my fellow kitty lover.
Another amazing video Carly 💜
great video as always Carly!
Another amazing vid from you.
I would love to see you do other natural disasters in the future :)