@@samuelraytheweirdcontentgu8551 That’s what happens when you’re from Austin, TX but you’re visiting St. Louis on vacation and the third-largest tornado outbreak in U.S. History takes place. You become tornado aware.
I was in Minot North Dakota when it was was hit by a tornado back in the 70’s. The scary green rotating sky was the weirdest thing I’ve seen in my young life. I also saw a wicked funnel cloud sitting over Fargo back then as well. It was enthralling. I didn’t go into meteorology ultimately but there were many times I wish I had.
This was a cool idea for a video! Got another recommendation, the 2002 La Plata, Maryland F4/5. It's probably the furthest east tornado that was that strong, I grew up in a town about 20 miles away, and at the time I was 13ish and will never forget how the sky looked. It would be interesting to learn more about it, and how the storm differed causing such a strong tornado in a part of the country where strong tornadoes just dont happen. Keep up the awesome videos girl, I learn something new each time!
Live just over the river in NOVA I remember that tornado. That monster is fascinating how it went down and horrific of course. But how it went down is something else.
@@paulmorgan1009 Oh nice! Yeah you probably caught some crazy glimpses of that storm too, I've held off on researching that storm almost out of fear. I remember playing outside, and as dinner time rolled around I saw the sky and immediately went back home. About an hour later my mom had the news on and we saw what happened. We watched in stunned silence. Scary day.
They actually filmed for the new Twister movie in OKC. I live just blocks from where they filmed I think a New York scene , but it’s really downtown OKC.
The photo you displayed at 8:35 is my favorite image of a tornado, or tornadoes. I have also always found the image you show at 7:44 to be very fascinating, but also creepy.
11:30 Fun fact: the only buildings in the US that have an actual building code requirement *mandating* they be designed to withstand a direct strike from a tornado are nuclear power stations. They're genuinely the safest structures in the country.
It’s a good thing Hollywood doesn’t recreate the REALITY of tornadoes. The reality is massive damage, people possibly dead in the open, agonizing screams in the wake of destruction. It would be too graphic to show in a movie. Regardless, I do think it would be GREAT if they used REAL storm chasers for actors! It would give the weather geeks that extra joy of seeing someone like Reed Timmer in a big tornado movie!
My Aunt lived thru the Grand Island tornados and was in her house when it hit her. She is now terrified of any severe weather that is more than heavy rain.
I ran into one of the Toto scientists Howie Bluestein at Walmart. Me being a tornado nerd I was star struck and asked for a picture. He was so confused about why I was treating him like a famous person lol
I’d love to meet Howie Bluestein- he’d probably be confused if I asked him to sign the copy of his book I have. He and Chuck Doswell are my favorite scientists for documentary interviews
Into The Storm is a movie I adored a lot because of how there have been inspiration that was incorporated in the movie. For example, I've heard that the movie had references of Joplin because of the tornado hitting the school along with the security cam footage of it. Some say that it is basically like Joplin as a movie in that scene. The EF5 towards the end is like the equivalent of the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado because of the reporter stating that the wind speeds were up to 300mph right when the once powerful twin tornadoes merged into one massive violent tornado. I also would have never think of the characters seeking shelter under a manhole being a reference of the many people trying to shelter under overpasses in the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado thinking that it's the safest place to take shelter during a tornado despite it being one of the worst places to seek shelter in general
The fascinating thing about the people who successfully sheltered under a bridge(I forget which tornado that was) as the tornado passed close was that that particular bridge DID offer a fair shelter from the winds because of the unique construction of the underneath section of the bridge. The vast majority of bridges that size do not offer such protection.
@@StormChaserJeremy I heard that survived in part because it wasn't a direct hit, if it would of been the venteroy(wind tunnel)effect would of been insane!!
I have a feeling El Reno might be referenced for the new Twister movie. I hope not because that was heartbreaking in terms of storm chaser loss (excluding Richard Henderson), but it was very large, very scary and could make for a good ref for the final tornado.
I ordered a hoodie (who does want a nice warm hoodie this time of year?) and a Blaze sticker. Any chance that we might get Mr. Blaze on a shirt at some point? I know a lot of us would buy one. Very interesting video. I didn't know that Dorothy Gale was a real person. I read the original Significant Tornadoes book years ago. I might have to scrape up the money to buy the new one
Didn't know there was going to be a Twister sequel. A shame Bill Paxton died back in 2017, so we couldn't get him to cameo in the movie if we wanted to.
I wonder if Helen Hunt will do a cameo. Phillip Seymour Hoffman who played Dusty passed away as well. Or any of the other original "Twister" actors like Alan Ruck (Rabbit). (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534sadly I heard none of the original characters are in it. I did hear one of the characters are supposed to be Bill and Jo’s child.
Another interesting one, this time on the inspirations behind the movies. I didn't hear that the 1996 movie Twister was inspired by Moore 1999, but rather PREDICTED it. For many of the same reasons you alluded that it couldn't be the inspiration, most of all, the final F5 was worse case scenario AND in Oklahoma. Also, again, I noticed you ended your vlog before time, a whole 4 minutes of black screen. I'm wondering if TH-cam isn't editing your very educational work without you knowing...?
Hi Carly. Great video. BTW I think your microphone is backwards. You have it set to a cardioid pattern which is correct, but you seem to be speaking into the dead zone at the back of it. You will notice that it sounds much clearer one direction than the other. The white dot (currently facing the camera) shows the front address direction of the mic 👍
I know there are other theories like that he chose the name Dorothy to honor his niece who had died in infancy and Gale because of its meaning and that it was the last name of someone in his family(I forget who) and of course, there's the political allegory which is great for explaining the period but after digging seems like a stretch, since Baum seemed to have been a fan of McKinley or at worst, not the diehard Populist who would write an allegory describing McKinley as a villain. That being said though, there's something deeply poetic about the Irving theory. A girl who died too young getting a chance to live forever through the written word and eventually through the silver screen.
I think the tornado in 'The wizard of Oz' looks better and more sinister than those in the movie 'Twister' even though it was made decades before. How did they even make that tornado?
Smoke and a muslin tube that they rotated while filming it. Still, in my opinion, the best tornado ever put on screen, if for no other reason than they did literally show every single phase of a tornado's life cycle (even if they were out of order, starting with the rope phase instead of ending with it). And why did they? Because for that one, they sent people out to talk to actual Tornado Alley farmers to get good descriptions of what thye look like and how they behave.
It may have been a triggered event to be studied out side of town ..but slide sideways. There was a false nuclear event that day too. Nothing in the 2 FOIA to suggest what triggered that situation.
I've been watching Tornado Videos since I had to rent them from the local library. I was so excited to go see Twister and it was great! Can't wait for the sequel! U do a great job Carly. I had to reveal my age to show people how hard it was to study Tornados back in the day! Reed is a Living LEGEND and I swear he has got to be 75.......lol
I'm pretty excited about the prospect of a Twister sequel. I just hope Hollywood doesn't ruin it by throwing in elements that don't really need to be in it just to appease certain groups. The original was a bit corny but it did do a lot to educate people about storm chasing and storm science. Now if we could have an updated version with a similarly strong story with characters we care about, that would be something. One thing though, that was missing from the original Twister, is that there were no trailer parks. Everyone knows you gotta have a trailer park in a tornado story. I mean, come on. A tornado outbreak that doesn't hit at least one trailer park . . . ?
I received my copy of “Significant Tornadoes” for Christmas! It’s an amazing work. Great video! P.S. The main writer of “Twister” was Michael Crichton, the author of the Jurassic Park books! P.P.S. I need to write a book about Irving, KS and its various calamities.
Oh man, I had a love hate relationship with Night of the Twisters. It played on TV all the time and had terrible acting and CG. Yet, it was quirky and kinda endearing. Plus, I was a weather nerd and so I've seen that movie as many times as I have Twister. Glad to hear the true story behind it.
I’ll sometimes put it on in the background- I found the book in 6th grade and it’s what started getting me interested in weather. It’s not a great movie, but I have a big soft spot for it. Funnily enough, Twister gave me huge anxiety and a tornado phobia until I read Night of the Twisters. Probably because my dad let me watch it at 6 😅 not the best age for Twister
Read the book but never saw the movie. As a kid originally from California I never saw a tornado in real life so I had a hard time wrapping my mind around what a real life tornado was like. Did they really swirl around that fast or was the first videos of them sped up? Then I really learned as I got older and lived in the south and plains states. Loved the first twister movie and saw it in theaters when it first came out. Gonna see the sequel when it comes out too.
I remember seeing the footage of that massive EF5 tornado ripping through Tuscaloosa Alabama in 2011 and it was scary looking and I was watching it hundreds of miles away.
I love the original twister, I watched it so many times as a kid. Some of it was filmed near my hometown, where I grew up in Oklahoma. And they have filmed a lot of the new one in some other small towns that I know. Sadly, I don’t have a whole lot of faith in Hollywood these days to make a good movie and I fear the sequel will be a flop. Hopefully not. 😭
When I was a kid my family and I were on vacation and stopped in a dinner. There were meteorologists and storm chasers also there. A old man asked them what they were doing. when they told him that they chased tornadoes. The look on his face, then he started telling a story about how he survived one when he was a child. When they realized that he was talking about having lived through the tristate tornado, it went silent and You could hear a pen drop. I was a kid and didn’t know what tornado he was talking about but by everyone’s reaction I knew that it was significant.
The idea of Twister having a sequel makes me nervous. Not just because the greatest talent in the original is either dead or not returning, but since the original the majority of tornado movies have been, well, pretty bad. Even the ones I liked. Mixing that with the current social climate and how movies like The Marvels and… things like that…. Turned out, I would really hate to see Twisters handled in that sort of way. Maybe I’ll be surprised and it’ll just be a fun romp and not a political statement. Either way I’ll be there for it… anxiously.
I grew up on a farm in Tornado Alley. Had my own stories of tornadoes, and vividly remember the horrific tragedy of Belvedere. It scared the bejaysus out of me. I had many sojourns in our basement. The Wizard of Oz was on TV many times, but as a child I could never watch the tornado: I always buried my face in a pillow and clamped my hands over my ears! Love to You, Carly Anna. You are.AWESOME
The tornado in the film 'Places in the Heart' seemed to go on a long time and there is no perceptible funnel but I have heard of people who have had similar experiences. I wonder what anyone else thinks of it. th-cam.com/video/B5fIfcsVAnA/w-d-xo.html
Finally, Grand Island gets some love! There is a very low amount of videos about the 1980 Grand Island outbreak given its highly unusual characteristics.
I used to be scared of tornadoes and bad weather as a kid,(possibly because I survived hurricane Andrew in 93, my mom sadly didn't), I saw twister as a kid and my love of whether and tornadoes started then.
@@Virgo__ thank you. Yah I love storm chasing. I accidentally drove through a night time rain wrapped one last year.... didn't detour me tho! I would of been a storm chaser but my life path has changed so I want a different career/proffisan.
Girl, I think you uploaded a draft of the video cus why is there a 20 second black screen pause between wizard of oz and the conclusion, and a 4 minute black screen at the end? No shade intended, just thought id mention it lol
Interesting topic for the video, I loved the movie twister growing up and hope that the upcoming sequel sticks closer to realism than other movies have. Im surprised that there haven't been any movies done about real life outbreaks or major tornadoes.
Crichton was my favorite author and his involvement in Twister made it a must watch for me…I actually got the screenplay book and used to be able to quote the movie basically word for word😂(I was like 12 at the time)
Van Halen only released two of the three songs they recorded for the original Twister movie (Respect the Wind & Humans Being). Sure would be cool if some media pressure was put on the band to release the unreleased song (Between Us Two) for the new Twister sequel. I just have a casual interest in tornadoes, but I have really enjoyed the content and production quality of your videos. Keep up the great work! 👏 🌪️ 🎸
Hollywood hardly ever gets things "historically right" in films. Whenever I see "inspired by/based on true events", I know there is about to be more entertainment value than historical value. Hollywood does not care about history, just enetertainment. I am glad you only spoke of a few movies. I mean, there are a LOT of tornado films out there and plenty of them are super low budget B flicks. Some of which are just a constant exercise in the eye roll from bad acting and/or deplorable CGI. I did want to mention about The Wizard of Oz. For one I thought that tornado was terrifying as a child. I never knew the origin story of how that book came to be, so I did a bit of quick research on the Kansas ghost town. It was located about an hour north of Manhattan where Kansas State University is located. And a few miles southeast of the town of Blue Rapids. I found this interesting because that general location of Marshall County is in the northern part of the state, bordering the state line with Nebraska. After all that was said and done to the town as you mentioned in your video, it gets wiped out once and for all by the Tuttle Lake Dam. There is a Wizard of Oz Museum in Wamego, (and surprisingly one in Florida?) about an hour away from Blue Rapids. I have not been there. Yet what I find very interesting is that there is a place called "Dorothy's House and the Land of Oz", which another museum. That museum is located over 350 miles away from Blue Rapids and tucked away in the southwest corner of the state of Kansas in a place called Liberal. And Liberal just a short drive from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Why that specific museum is so far away from everything, I do not know. I visited the museum in Liberal when I was a teenager.
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Can't forget about Supercell. The fictional 2013 Wichita Falls tornado from the beginning of the movie was directly inspired by the 2013 El Reno tornado. Same year, legendary storm chaser tragically loses his life (Twistex team) and they mentioned that it looked like the whole sky was on the ground, just like in El Reno
Great video, but you forgot another tornado movie which also was released in 1996. It's called "Tornado", and starred Bruce Campbell. I have all 3 of the 1996 movies on DVD, and still watch them from time to time. I also have "The Wizard of Oz", one of my favorite movies ever since I was a kid. Great special effects for 1939 in my opinion. My mom was only 9 years old when it was released. My favorite part of "The Wizard of Oz" was the tornado footage when I was a kid. (Jan Griffiths).
I'm surprised that people are not saying that the movie Twister "Predicted" the May 3 1999 Moore oklahoma Tornado. I'm also surprised that The Simpsons didn't predict it lol.
You should do a video on the April 4, 1966 EF4 tornado that crossed the entire Florida peninsula and killed 11 people, injuring hundreds more. I haven’t seen a single video on TH-cam about this tornado and yours would be the first. I got this info from the tornado archive website but you could do the topic much more justice.
The first day of my meteorology course at TAMU (2009), the professor asked how many of us had seen Twister. It was like 100 of us in the class, and all but one of us raised our hands. 😂 Same professor some weeks later put on a movie, and we just heard that initial first sound from Twister (no video up yet), and we all lost our gd minds. 🤣 Got to analyze what they did right/wrong in the movie, lol.
I just subscribed to your channel a couple days ago, and I have watched so many past videos and have enjoyed all of them. One of my favorites was the one on the 1974 outbreak, as I remember that day. I live very close to the Dayton and Xenia area and I turned 8 years old later that month. I remember being in the basement the entire day and the fear of the day. Anyway, I just wanted to point out I had no idea Dorothy Gale was a real little girl. The Wizard of Oz has always been one of my favorite movies, I as a little girl I read all of the L. Frank Baum Oz books. What a heartbreaking story about her. Tornadoes in those days had to be the scariest things since there was no warning. It's bad enough today with our warnings, just think of seeing something like that coming at you and you have no time to take cover. I love your style of videos, glad I found you 😊.
Twister is my favorite movie of all time. I own it on prime, 2 on dvd (one is because it came on a 4 movie dvd set with other disaster films) and blu-ray. 😂 can’t have enough copies as I completely destroyed the vhs my family had when I was a kid. I nearly became a meteorologist and honestly I should have. Instead I am a teacher and am completely burnt out. I really hope the sequel isn’t trash. I’m excited for it and hope I’m not disappointed.
The new Twisters movie actually features el reno and the tornado at the end was supposedly a tribute to the 2013 tornado that took the lives of the twistex team❤
I am a bit disappointed she didn't touch on Sharknado, however I am shocked there hasn't been a "Dixie Alley" tornado movie. I live in the Alabama Gulf Coast area, and I have experienced more storms here than any of the traditional "tornado alley" locations I lived in, and I still find it fascinating.
Yo I feel you on Washburn! I have a fondness for the huge brown monster of a tornado I believe in Kansas they used all the time in Tornado VHS tapes. I wish I knew what it was though.
I love the movie Twister! I had a cat named Twister…people thought he was named after the movie! Well no! We had a tornado go through our yard the day we got him and he also chased his tail in the basement and looked like a tiny funnel cloud! His given name was also Paul…so i had to come up with a different name. He definitely chose his own name!
I think that the movie " Twister" gave people a false sense of security when it comes to storm chasing, and people who are trying to get their own amateur photos or films of approaching storms.
Watching Twister at a young age made me terrified of Tornadoes tbh. Made me think a tornado would run through my city and ruin everything. I still get nervous when I hear about warnings lmao.
Best thing about the movie Twister was the team encounter them in order of intensity rating and the weather cast in the beginning calling out an F5 without a proper survey of the damage probably cost him his job
The scene in the beginning of "Twister" was supposed to have happened in June 1969, when Jo was 5 years old, and the original Fujita scale wasn't implemented yet. It wouldn't be till 1971. (Jan Griffiths).
had no idea about the wizard of oz twister. that was way more dark than what i was expecting, but still super interesting
The Oz movie twister was astonishingly real looking for 1939 and involved whirling dark cloth.
@poetcomic1 I agree. I always thought that considering its time, that tornado was very realistic and scary!
For me, i grew up loving the Wizard of Oz but the May 31st, 1985 tornado outbreak was what started me reading about and learning about tornadoes.
I've heard stories about that. My mom was in the Wheatland F5
March 31, 2023 for me.
@@BigSCTVfand@mn your new to this lol
@@samuelraytheweirdcontentgu8551 That’s what happens when you’re from Austin, TX but you’re visiting St. Louis on vacation and the third-largest tornado outbreak in U.S. History takes place. You become tornado aware.
I was in Minot North Dakota when it was was hit by a tornado back in the 70’s. The scary green rotating sky was the weirdest thing I’ve seen in my young life. I also saw a wicked funnel cloud sitting over Fargo back then as well. It was enthralling. I didn’t go into meteorology ultimately but there were many times I wish I had.
This was a cool idea for a video! Got another recommendation, the 2002 La Plata, Maryland F4/5. It's probably the furthest east tornado that was that strong, I grew up in a town about 20 miles away, and at the time I was 13ish and will never forget how the sky looked. It would be interesting to learn more about it, and how the storm differed causing such a strong tornado in a part of the country where strong tornadoes just dont happen. Keep up the awesome videos girl, I learn something new each time!
Live just over the river in NOVA I remember that tornado. That monster is fascinating how it went down and horrific of course. But how it went down is something else.
@@paulmorgan1009 Oh nice! Yeah you probably caught some crazy glimpses of that storm too, I've held off on researching that storm almost out of fear. I remember playing outside, and as dinner time rolled around I saw the sky and immediately went back home. About an hour later my mom had the news on and we saw what happened. We watched in stunned silence. Scary day.
It wasent the farthest east for an F4 but a good video idea indeed@@skrounst
It was the tornado of 1980 in Thornton I was in the car wash across the street from the bank when the tornado tore the roof off
goodness -- did you hear the tornado initially or did the car wash mask the sound a bit? that must have been so wild
They actually filmed for the new Twister movie in OKC. I live just blocks from where they filmed I think a New York scene , but it’s really downtown OKC.
My favorite movie growing up
Thanks!
The photo you displayed at 8:35 is my favorite image of a tornado, or tornadoes. I have also always found the image you show at 7:44 to be very fascinating, but also creepy.
Very instructive video (having seen « Twister » myself in my hometown), thank you Carly!
11:30 Fun fact: the only buildings in the US that have an actual building code requirement *mandating* they be designed to withstand a direct strike from a tornado are nuclear power stations. They're genuinely the safest structures in the country.
Cheyenne Mountain
@@henryread5301 That's not a structure, it's a natural land formation that we decided to build inside of
I can’t wait for the new Twister movie. The 96 movie is hands down my absolute favorite.
Me too. I was 12 years old when it came out and I still remember my dad taking me to the theater to see it.
It’s my favorite movie of all time too! Glad to see others agree as most people give me weird looks 😂
It’s a good thing Hollywood doesn’t recreate the REALITY of tornadoes. The reality is massive damage, people possibly dead in the open, agonizing screams in the wake of destruction. It would be too graphic to show in a movie. Regardless, I do think it would be GREAT if they used REAL storm chasers for actors! It would give the weather geeks that extra joy of seeing someone like Reed Timmer in a big tornado movie!
I’m sure that a tornado movie with real storm chasers would do well
My Aunt lived thru the Grand Island tornados and was in her house when it hit her. She is now terrified of any severe weather that is more than heavy rain.
I ran into one of the Toto scientists Howie Bluestein at Walmart. Me being a tornado nerd I was star struck and asked for a picture.
He was so confused about why I was treating him like a famous person lol
I’d love to meet Howie Bluestein- he’d probably be confused if I asked him to sign the copy of his book I have. He and Chuck Doswell are my favorite scientists for documentary interviews
I hope the new movie has the same cow flying by.
Into The Storm is a movie I adored a lot because of how there have been inspiration that was incorporated in the movie. For example, I've heard that the movie had references of Joplin because of the tornado hitting the school along with the security cam footage of it. Some say
that it is basically like Joplin as a movie in that
scene. The EF5 towards the end is like the equivalent of the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado because of the reporter stating that the wind speeds were up to 300mph right when the once
powerful twin tornadoes merged into one massive violent tornado. I also would have never think of the characters seeking shelter under a manhole being a reference of the many people trying to shelter under overpasses in the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado thinking that it's the safest place to take shelter during a tornado despite it being one of the worst places to seek shelter in general
also don't forget the moore 2013 one on when its dissipating when they used the actual helicopter audio from the end of the moore 2013 EF5
@@bizrk_toh5543 I saw the movie in theaters and the second that happened I knew exactly where the audio was from
The fascinating thing about the people who successfully sheltered under a bridge(I forget which tornado that was) as the tornado passed close was that that particular bridge DID offer a fair shelter from the winds because of the unique construction of the underneath section of the bridge. The vast majority of bridges that size do not offer such protection.
@@StormChaserJeremy I heard that survived in part because it wasn't a direct hit, if it would of been the venteroy(wind tunnel)effect would of been insane!!
I have a feeling El Reno might be referenced for the new Twister movie. I hope not because that was heartbreaking in terms of storm chaser loss (excluding Richard Henderson), but it was very large, very scary and could make for a good ref for the final tornado.
By far the WORST tornado movies I've ever seen were "Nature Unleashed: Tornado" and "NYC: Tornado Terror".
Absolute crap movies. 😂😅
One of the things about the Wizard of Oz was how realistic the tornado looked in it from a movie released in 1939.
I ordered a hoodie (who does want a nice warm hoodie this time of year?) and a Blaze sticker. Any chance that we might get Mr. Blaze on a shirt at some point? I know a lot of us would buy one.
Very interesting video. I didn't know that Dorothy Gale was a real person.
I read the original Significant Tornadoes book years ago. I might have to scrape up the money to buy the new one
Didn't know there was going to be a Twister sequel. A shame Bill Paxton died back in 2017, so we couldn't get him to cameo in the movie if we wanted to.
I wonder if Helen Hunt will do a cameo. Phillip Seymour Hoffman who played Dusty passed away as well. Or any of the other original "Twister" actors like Alan Ruck (Rabbit). (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534sadly I heard none of the original characters are in it. I did hear one of the characters are supposed to be Bill and Jo’s child.
It’s not a sequel
Wonderful video as always! :D I'm surprised you didn't talk about Supercell! That movie does actually use a bunch of Pecos' Hanks footage!
Another interesting one, this time on the inspirations behind the movies. I didn't hear that the 1996 movie Twister was inspired by Moore 1999, but rather PREDICTED it. For many of the same reasons you alluded that it couldn't be the inspiration, most of all, the final F5 was worse case scenario AND in Oklahoma.
Also, again, I noticed you ended your vlog before time, a whole 4 minutes of black screen. I'm wondering if TH-cam isn't editing your very educational work without you knowing...?
Hi Carly. Great video. BTW I think your microphone is backwards. You have it set to a cardioid pattern which is correct, but you seem to be speaking into the dead zone at the back of it. You will notice that it sounds much clearer one direction than the other. The white dot (currently facing the camera) shows the front address direction of the mic 👍
OH MY LORD I WANT THAT BOOK!!!
That is so me! 😁🥰🌪️🌪️🌪️
Very touching story for The Wizard of OZ, also!
I know there are other theories like that he chose the name Dorothy to honor his niece who had died in infancy and Gale because of its meaning and that it was the last name of someone in his family(I forget who) and of course, there's the political allegory which is great for explaining the period but after digging seems like a stretch, since Baum seemed to have been a fan of McKinley or at worst, not the diehard Populist who would write an allegory describing McKinley as a villain.
That being said though, there's something deeply poetic about the Irving theory. A girl who died too young getting a chance to live forever through the written word and eventually through the silver screen.
I think the tornado in 'The wizard of Oz' looks better and more sinister than those in the movie 'Twister' even though it was made decades before. How did they even make that tornado?
Smoke and a muslin tube that they rotated while filming it. Still, in my opinion, the best tornado ever put on screen, if for no other reason than they did literally show every single phase of a tornado's life cycle (even if they were out of order, starting with the rope phase instead of ending with it). And why did they? Because for that one, they sent people out to talk to actual Tornado Alley farmers to get good descriptions of what thye look like and how they behave.
@@rdfox76 oh cool thanks for the reply. 🙏
please please please make a full video on the june 3rd, 1980 grande island tornados. that book is what got me interested and it never stopped!
It may have been a triggered event to be studied out side of town ..but slide sideways. There was a false nuclear event that day too. Nothing in the 2 FOIA to suggest what triggered that situation.
I've been watching Tornado Videos since I had to rent them from the local library. I was so excited to go see Twister and it was great! Can't wait for the sequel! U do a great job Carly. I had to reveal my age to show people how hard it was to study Tornados back in the day! Reed is a Living LEGEND and I swear he has got to be 75.......lol
I'm pretty excited about the prospect of a Twister sequel. I just hope Hollywood doesn't ruin it by throwing in elements that don't really need to be in it just to appease certain groups. The original was a bit corny but it did do a lot to educate people about storm chasing and storm science. Now if we could have an updated version with a similarly strong story with characters we care about, that would be something. One thing though, that was missing from the original Twister, is that there were no trailer parks. Everyone knows you gotta have a trailer park in a tornado story. I mean, come on. A tornado outbreak that doesn't hit at least one trailer park . . . ?
I received my copy of “Significant Tornadoes” for Christmas! It’s an amazing work. Great video! P.S. The main writer of “Twister” was Michael Crichton, the author of the Jurassic Park books!
P.P.S. I need to write a book about Irving, KS and its various calamities.
Oh man, I had a love hate relationship with Night of the Twisters. It played on TV all the time and had terrible acting and CG. Yet, it was quirky and kinda endearing. Plus, I was a weather nerd and so I've seen that movie as many times as I have Twister. Glad to hear the true story behind it.
I’ll sometimes put it on in the background- I found the book in 6th grade and it’s what started getting me interested in weather. It’s not a great movie, but I have a big soft spot for it. Funnily enough, Twister gave me huge anxiety and a tornado phobia until I read Night of the Twisters. Probably because my dad let me watch it at 6 😅 not the best age for Twister
Read the book but never saw the movie. As a kid originally from California I never saw a tornado in real life so I had a hard time wrapping my mind around what a real life tornado was like. Did they really swirl around that fast or was the first videos of them sped up? Then I really learned as I got older and lived in the south and plains states. Loved the first twister movie and saw it in theaters when it first came out. Gonna see the sequel when it comes out too.
I cant wait for the sequel of twister i would love to see some footage of pecos hank dont know anything about the cast for it though
The wizard of oz was the movie that got me interested in tornados as a kid. And then twister just solidified my love of them!
the story behind it was so haunting too! Definitely my favorite to cover
That tornado and sound effect was HORRIFYING as a kid. But for being a 30s movie, it’s absolutely incredible. Definitely an all time great.
I remember seeing the footage of that massive EF5 tornado ripping through Tuscaloosa Alabama in 2011 and it was scary looking and I was watching it hundreds of miles away.
Also im glad you didnt get a picture of a deadly tornado. For me tornadoes are only beautiful if no harm was done! Otherwise theyre very saddening
I agree, something about getting a Moore or other photogenic / deadly one would feel odd to me
I love the original twister, I watched it so many times as a kid. Some of it was filmed near my hometown, where I grew up in Oklahoma. And they have filmed a lot of the new one in some other small towns that I know. Sadly, I don’t have a whole lot of faith in Hollywood these days to make a good movie and I fear the sequel will be a flop. Hopefully not. 😭
When I was a kid my family and I were on vacation and stopped in a dinner. There were meteorologists and storm chasers also there. A old man asked them what they were doing. when they told him that they chased tornadoes. The look on his face, then he started telling a story about how he survived one when he was a child. When they realized that he was talking about having lived through the tristate tornado, it went silent and You could hear a pen drop.
I was a kid and didn’t know what tornado he was talking about but by everyone’s reaction I knew that it was significant.
Oh boy! I've always hoped Carly would touch on the Grand Island, NE tornadoes.
The idea of Twister having a sequel makes me nervous. Not just because the greatest talent in the original is either dead or not returning, but since the original the majority of tornado movies have been, well, pretty bad. Even the ones I liked. Mixing that with the current social climate and how movies like The Marvels and… things like that…. Turned out, I would really hate to see Twisters handled in that sort of way. Maybe I’ll be surprised and it’ll just be a fun romp and not a political statement. Either way I’ll be there for it… anxiously.
I grew up on a farm in Tornado Alley. Had my own stories of tornadoes, and vividly remember the horrific tragedy of Belvedere. It scared the bejaysus out of me. I had many sojourns in our basement. The Wizard of Oz was on TV many times, but as a child I could never watch the tornado: I always buried my face in a pillow and clamped my hands over my ears! Love to You, Carly Anna. You are.AWESOME
The tornado in the film 'Places in the Heart' seemed to go on a long time and there is no perceptible funnel but I have heard of people who have had similar experiences. I wonder what anyone else thinks of it. th-cam.com/video/B5fIfcsVAnA/w-d-xo.html
Oh I so badly want that tornado book but it's way way way to much for me
Fun fact: Half of the crew between Jonas and Jo's crew was actual storm chasers.
Grasshoppers? What?? lol
Finally, Grand Island gets some love! There is a very low amount of videos about the 1980 Grand Island outbreak given its highly unusual characteristics.
..highly unusual for sure! Experiment gone sideways maybe...
I used to be scared of tornadoes and bad weather as a kid,(possibly because I survived hurricane Andrew in 93, my mom sadly didn't), I saw twister as a kid and my love of whether and tornadoes started then.
@@Virgo__ thank you. Yah I love storm chasing. I accidentally drove through a night time rain wrapped one last year.... didn't detour me tho! I would of been a storm chaser but my life path has changed so I want a different career/proffisan.
Girl, I think you uploaded a draft of the video cus why is there a 20 second black screen pause between wizard of oz and the conclusion, and a 4 minute black screen at the end? No shade intended, just thought id mention it lol
I was confused too
I want to get that tornado book but i can't afford anything close to it lol
it really was so expensive lol. I'm going to distribute all the knowledge in it hahaha
@@carlyannawx lol! Sounds good!
Same I wanted to get it but I believe it only ships within the US and I'm in Canada
Interesting topic for the video, I loved the movie twister growing up and hope that the upcoming sequel sticks closer to realism than other movies have. Im surprised that there haven't been any movies done about real life outbreaks or major tornadoes.
I watched this movie so many times as a kid, and I credit it to the reason I’m watching you today.
They should do the Dec 10th outbreak that hit Mayfield and ten other places
Thank you for talking about Grand Island. It’s grossly never talked about in weather TH-cam
Crichton was my favorite author and his involvement in Twister made it a must watch for me…I actually got the screenplay book and used to be able to quote the movie basically word for word😂(I was like 12 at the time)
Van Halen only released two of the three songs they recorded for the original Twister movie (Respect the Wind & Humans Being). Sure would be cool if some media pressure was put on the band to release the unreleased song (Between Us Two) for the new Twister sequel. I just have a casual interest in tornadoes, but I have really enjoyed the content and production quality of your videos. Keep up the great work! 👏 🌪️ 🎸
Hollywood hardly ever gets things "historically right" in films. Whenever I see "inspired by/based on true events", I know there is about to be more entertainment value than historical value. Hollywood does not care about history, just enetertainment.
I am glad you only spoke of a few movies. I mean, there are a LOT of tornado films out there and plenty of them are super low budget B flicks. Some of which are just a constant exercise in the eye roll from bad acting and/or deplorable CGI.
I did want to mention about The Wizard of Oz. For one I thought that tornado was terrifying as a child. I never knew the origin story of how that book came to be, so I did a bit of quick research on the Kansas ghost town. It was located about an hour north of Manhattan where Kansas State University is located. And a few miles southeast of the town of Blue Rapids. I found this interesting because that general location of Marshall County is in the northern part of the state, bordering the state line with Nebraska. After all that was said and done to the town as you mentioned in your video, it gets wiped out once and for all by the Tuttle Lake Dam.
There is a Wizard of Oz Museum in Wamego, (and surprisingly one in Florida?) about an hour away from Blue Rapids. I have not been there. Yet what I find very interesting is that there is a place called "Dorothy's House and the Land of Oz", which another museum. That museum is located over 350 miles away from Blue Rapids and tucked away in the southwest corner of the state of Kansas in a place called Liberal. And Liberal just a short drive from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Why that specific museum is so far away from everything, I do not know. I visited the museum in Liberal when I was a teenager.
"How Dare You"😂 call me a Nerd !! Umm... ok, you're right 😁 I am a Nado Nerd !! And... Yeah!! Love the channel and content Carly !! Keep Grinding and you'll get to 100k in no time !!
Can't forget about Supercell. The fictional 2013 Wichita Falls tornado from the beginning of the movie was directly inspired by the 2013 El Reno tornado. Same year, legendary storm chaser tragically loses his life (Twistex team) and they mentioned that it looked like the whole sky was on the ground, just like in El Reno
Great video, but you forgot another tornado movie which also was released in 1996. It's called "Tornado", and starred Bruce Campbell. I have all 3 of the 1996 movies on DVD, and still watch them from time to time. I also have "The Wizard of Oz", one of my favorite movies ever since I was a kid. Great special effects for 1939 in my opinion. My mom was only 9 years old when it was released. My favorite part of "The Wizard of Oz" was the tornado footage when I was a kid. (Jan Griffiths).
I'm surprised that people are not saying that the movie Twister "Predicted" the May 3 1999 Moore oklahoma Tornado.
I'm also surprised that The Simpsons didn't predict it lol.
Ooooo pretty photo I wasn't going to judge you people make mistakes sometimes no need to judge people for it
Get some PECOS HANK images. They are truly and hauntingly beautiful.
You should do a video on the April 4, 1966 EF4 tornado that crossed the entire Florida peninsula and killed 11 people, injuring hundreds more. I haven’t seen a single video on TH-cam about this tornado and yours would be the first. I got this info from the tornado archive website but you could do the topic much more justice.
I know this doesn’t pertain to the video, and I don’t remember if
You have covered this tornado, but can you cover the Washington, IL 2013 tornado?
And yep, I'm going to see "Twisters" (2024) when it is released. I want to see if it relates at all to the 1996 movie. (Jan Griffiths).
Love the video! I just had to say, I kept cracking up at you saying '95 was 20 years ago - I knew I was still in my 20s and not my 30s. 🤪❤️❤️
The first day of my meteorology course at TAMU (2009), the professor asked how many of us had seen Twister. It was like 100 of us in the class, and all but one of us raised our hands. 😂
Same professor some weeks later put on a movie, and we just heard that initial first sound from Twister (no video up yet), and we all lost our gd minds. 🤣 Got to analyze what they did right/wrong in the movie, lol.
I just subscribed to your channel a couple days ago, and I have watched so many past videos and have enjoyed all of them. One of my favorites was the one on the 1974 outbreak, as I remember that day. I live very close to the Dayton and Xenia area and I turned 8 years old later that month. I remember being in the basement the entire day and the fear of the day. Anyway, I just wanted to point out I had no idea Dorothy Gale was a real little girl. The Wizard of Oz has always been one of my favorite movies, I as a little girl I read all of the L. Frank Baum Oz books. What a heartbreaking story about her. Tornadoes in those days had to be the scariest things since there was no warning. It's bad enough today with our warnings, just think of seeing something like that coming at you and you have no time to take cover. I love your style of videos, glad I found you 😊.
Twister is my favorite movie of all time. I own it on prime, 2 on dvd (one is because it came on a 4 movie dvd set with other disaster films) and blu-ray. 😂 can’t have enough copies as I completely destroyed the vhs my family had when I was a kid.
I nearly became a meteorologist and honestly I should have. Instead I am a teacher and am completely burnt out. I really hope the sequel isn’t trash. I’m excited for it and hope I’m not disappointed.
Sounds like no one should try to build a town in Irving, Kansas. A major economic building burnt down twice from lightning? That's crazy.
The new Twisters movie actually features el reno and the tornado at the end was supposedly a tribute to the 2013 tornado that took the lives of the twistex team❤
No Sharknado???
Hah, kidding. Definitely will need to see Night of the Twisters.
I am a bit disappointed she didn't touch on Sharknado, however I am shocked there hasn't been a "Dixie Alley" tornado movie. I live in the Alabama Gulf Coast area, and I have experienced more storms here than any of the traditional "tornado alley" locations I lived in, and I still find it fascinating.
22:30 i think my youtube is glitching out, theres like 4 mins left and its not playing anything😢
Loved the video tho!
Twister was actually inspired by Jurassic Park's success. Take out t-rex, insert tornado, there you go.
Twister one of my all time favorites!
I'm curious have you covered the 2013 Moore Tornado?
Supercell Anvil for Grand Island Tornado extended to Des Moines
I still can’t believe I heard peepers already in my backyard. What’s that saying about hearing peepers in Georgia again?
Yo I feel you on Washburn! I have a fondness for the huge brown monster of a tornado I believe in Kansas they used all the time in Tornado VHS tapes. I wish I knew what it was though.
Carly you need a shirt with a big black EF5 in the middle and maybe with some lightning .
Scary !!
Is the new Thomas P. Grazulis book available yet? I can't seem to find it on Amazon or any other book store.
I love the movie Twister! I had a cat named Twister…people thought he was named after the movie! Well no! We had a tornado go through our yard the day we got him and he also chased his tail in the basement and looked like a tiny funnel cloud! His given name was also Paul…so i had to come up with a different name. He definitely chose his own name!
High af again
I think that the movie " Twister" gave people a false sense of security when it comes to storm chasing, and people who are trying to get their own amateur photos or films of approaching storms.
Only good tornado movies are wizard of 0z, twister, night of the twisters, into the storm is pure popcorn nonsense
They have already confirmed that “ Twisters “ has nothing to do with “ Twister. “ Not a sequel.
I'm somewhat disappointed at your lack of inclusion of what is one of the most important tornado films of all time: Sharknado.
I still remember “TORNADO VIDEO CLASSICS” on VHS. Gave my little niece nightmares lol
actually, the moore tornado was inspired by the movie Twister
How dare the Moore 1999 tornado steal Bill’s idea. Unrealized idea. Unrealized.
Can you imagine a tornado touching down in Chernobyl? My God what a nightmare scenario.
It’s really awesome that they’re making a new twister movie. I had no idea they were doing this until I saw this video…thanks for mentioning that
I recently watched the movie Twister and it really got me learning more about tornadoes
Watching Twister at a young age made me terrified of Tornadoes tbh. Made me think a tornado would run through my city and ruin everything. I still get nervous when I hear about warnings lmao.
I think we'd all agree that Carly would be the girl in science class we'd all have a huge crush on.
An easy way to get rid of the glare is to remove the glass from the picture frame.
Best thing about the movie Twister was the team encounter them in order of intensity rating and the weather cast in the beginning calling out an F5 without a proper survey of the damage probably cost him his job
The scene in the beginning of "Twister" was supposed to have happened in June 1969, when Jo was 5 years old, and the original Fujita scale wasn't implemented yet. It wouldn't be till 1971. (Jan Griffiths).
Moore 1999 is based off of twister duh. Mother Nature was like oh I can do that
Just a tip. Flip the camera so that it doesn't have the "mirror effect".
You have THE BEST IDEAS for vids. ❤❤❤
Your video is set to show a mirror image, reversing print, and everything else.