I'm familiar with New Ulm but never knew of this tornado! I live in North-Central MN and while earthquakes are very rare here, many people don't realize that Minnesota experiences quite a few tornadic storms.
Really interesting video! First I thought: "New Ulm? Like... Neu Ulm (in germany/bavaria)? We had tornadoes??" I live like an hour away from Neu Ulm and didn't knew there was a New Ulm in the US! That's why I clicked on your video in the first place, but after learning it's in the US, I stayed for the fascination and wanted to learn more! Keep up the work and greetings from bavaria!
Pictures are phenomenal thanks for including them, because wowww. We’re either hit with that deep snow in winter, violent winds/tornado’s or flooding in spring and summer. Life here in MN doesn’t get boring, alright! But I haven’t heard of this tornado, appreciate your covering it!!
You’re a historian. Through and through, so please continue chronically this information. It’s thorough yet concise; people need/ enjoy this kind of content. Natural disasters brings a large of TH-cam following.
Thanks for this video. My family did not move to New Ulm til the 1890s but I feel the story, pictures and maps make my family ancestry helpful. I believe they might have had relatives there already.
awesome stuff, can't wait for more on this series! I love the histories behind the storms as well as the old meteorology reports and stuff, so so so cool. Keep it up!
My Mom is from Bird Island-Morton. Everyone knows about the devastating Cokato tornado but it traveled over farms to the west first. My cement brick slab silo was moved, 3- car garage blown away, chicken coup gone, shingles stripped off the barn, my house has a couple cracks, & the trees in the set aside behind us were knocked down.
Sauk RAPIDS and St. Cloud. NOT Sauk Center, though the two Sauk’s share the Sauk River. There are about an hours commute apart! Sauk Rapids was bigger at the time and because of the Tornado, many left to St. Cloud and now it is the bigger city. Appreciate the rest. Thank you.
There is no shortage of forgotten weather disasters. I'm from LaGrange,GA and I only found out a few years ago about the southern side of town being demolished by an F3-possibly F4 tornado during the Palm Sunday Outbreak of March 1920. The death toll in Troup County from it and a F4 tornado that struck West Point earlier in the afternoon was likely over 250, but official data counted less because the county only documented casualties involving white people in the toll. The Army was requested to assist in search and rescue, and one unsung heroine of the event was a black female nurse named Charlie Brewer who set up a triage amongst the damage in the Hillside neighborhood.
I grew up in Fairfax, Wellington township. The farms in this video I have lived by all my life. I never knew about this storm. Our farm site would have been right on the north edge of the two mile wide path through Wellington.
Mother Nature has shown many tragedies across the country. Minnesota is not left out from theses weather events. This was very interesting and a reminder to be aware and take precautions when needed. Minnesota is beautiful and there's no place like home. Thank you I subbed !
While it is not, never was, nor ever will be my intent to make light of this historic tornado outbreak, I would actually like to see an Emergency Alert System scenario for this storm system to see what would have happened to alert the public with today's technology if it existed in 1881. Yes, I am fully aware that 1881 not only predates the existence of the Emergency Alert System, but also the Emergency Broadcast System and CONELRAD before it. With that said, I could imagine a scenario where the National Weather Service (which _did_ exist in 1881; it was founded in 1870) could have used the existing telegraph system to telegram warnings to the public.
@@seekingcirculation Hearing about a farm swept away with all the equipment with no trace trees completely stripped of their bark, and extreme scouring of the ground makes me think of an F5 tornado. Construction qualities are a factor but I can tell if a tornado is F5/EF5 by factors I described. Was the farm equipment mangled beyond recognition?
@@cubby091398 I'm not sure, the articles and records for the time didn't go into detail about the state of the objects, or other finer details we would expect today.
You should do the New richmond cyclone of New Richmond wi. Believed to biggest tornado to hit the town in Wisconsin History to date. I belive it was 1899.
I’m amazed to hear the New Richmond tornado mentioned, it’s so obscure and yet so terrifying. I mean all tornadoes are terrifying. But the way the New Richmond one was described is especially creepy for some reason. People going about their day and then all hell breaks loose…
I know that we're talking about catastrophes of a completely different nature, but extreme and vast wildlands conflagrations, such as Wisconsin's Peshtigo in 1871, and Minnesota's Hinckley in 1893, are almost completely forgotten, as well. Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Vesuvius were completely forgotten for nearly 1,800 years, until some serious and fairly accidental arcaeology took place in the mid-Eighteenth Century. I wonder if there was knowledge of Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account, to guide them back then? And, with tsunamis, well, when one mentions the Great Tohoku Tsunami of March 3rd(?) of 2011, all one remembers is the Fukushima Reactors Meltdown. This one, had to be one of the most comprehensively documented catastrophes, yet, with astonishingly great amateur video--water level rise of up to 150'. The straight-line cousin of tornadoes, the derecho, received comprehensive videographing in the case of the Great Cedar Rapids, Iowa Derecho of almost three years ago.
Makes living today seem like playing with barbies. Crazy storms, walking both ways to school uphill, and being scalped on a daily basis is an actual thing to worry about
I'm familiar with New Ulm but never knew of this tornado! I live in North-Central MN and while earthquakes are very rare here, many people don't realize that Minnesota experiences quite a few tornadic storms.
As an enjoyer of long form video essays, this is great! Keep up the quality!
Thanks!
Very well done, a lot of effort went into this. Keep it up
I live in the New Ulm area, but have never heard of this, thank you.
Very interesting! Thank you for your work.
Great video! Definitely deserves more views!
Thank you for the history of New ULM Minnesota . I've been there and it's a beautiful town and nice people.
thank you
Great job in bringing this forgotten event back into the light!
I have ancestors from New Ulm. I really never looked into this tornado before, so thank you for the information!
Please keep this series going! It's awesome history and you do such a great job.
ive been looking for this kind of video so long. please make this a series. subbed.
It's in the works ;)
Lived in Renville county for years and never heard about this, thanks for the good video!
Really interesting video!
First I thought: "New Ulm? Like... Neu Ulm (in germany/bavaria)? We had tornadoes??"
I live like an hour away from Neu Ulm and didn't knew there was a New Ulm in the US! That's why I clicked on your video in the first place, but after learning it's in the US, I stayed for the fascination and wanted to learn more!
Keep up the work and greetings from bavaria!
Pictures are phenomenal thanks for including them, because wowww. We’re either hit with that deep snow in winter, violent winds/tornado’s or flooding in spring and summer. Life here in MN doesn’t get boring, alright! But I haven’t heard of this tornado, appreciate your covering it!!
Awesome history. I subscribed to your channel
I would love to hear about more tornado accurances in the forgotten past. Keep up the great work bro. Horrific.
You’re a historian. Through and through, so please continue chronically this information. It’s thorough yet concise; people need/ enjoy this kind of content. Natural disasters brings a large of TH-cam following.
Thanks for this video. My family did not move to New Ulm til the 1890s but I feel the story, pictures and maps make my family ancestry helpful. I believe they might have had relatives there already.
Man, can't imagine surviving a tornado only to get taken out by a lightning bolt. Great documentary! I'd never heard of this system.
This is so well done! Absolutely 100% subscribed ! Great work sir
awesome stuff, can't wait for more on this series! I love the histories behind the storms as well as the old meteorology reports and stuff, so so so cool. Keep it up!
My Mom is from Bird Island-Morton.
Everyone knows about the devastating Cokato tornado but it traveled over farms to the west first.
My cement brick slab silo was moved, 3- car garage blown away, chicken coup gone, shingles stripped off the barn, my house has a couple cracks, & the trees in the set aside behind us were knocked down.
getting hit by lightning right after surviving a horrific tornado makes it seem like the weather that day had a hit list
Sauk RAPIDS and St. Cloud. NOT Sauk Center, though the two Sauk’s share the Sauk River. There are about an hours commute apart! Sauk Rapids was bigger at the time and because of the Tornado, many left to St. Cloud and now it is the bigger city. Appreciate the rest. Thank you.
A remarkable video and attitude.
There is no shortage of forgotten weather disasters. I'm from LaGrange,GA and I only found out a few years ago about the southern side of town being demolished by an F3-possibly F4 tornado during the Palm Sunday Outbreak of March 1920. The death toll in Troup County from it and a F4 tornado that struck West Point earlier in the afternoon was likely over 250, but official data counted less because the county only documented casualties involving white people in the toll. The Army was requested to assist in search and rescue, and one unsung heroine of the event was a black female nurse named Charlie Brewer who set up a triage amongst the damage in the Hillside neighborhood.
I grew up in Fairfax, Wellington township. The farms in this video I have lived by all my life. I never knew about this storm. Our farm site would have been right on the north edge of the two mile wide path through Wellington.
i live in New Ulm so far no tornadoes since this one but our shield is weakening
I never know Minnesota got this many tornadoes, I’m just learning about them. As a Minnesotan myself, I’ve never experienced one.
Nice video. If you make more on more modern tornadoes would you go more in depth on the meteorology as there is actual data available?
More than likely.
Mother Nature has shown many tragedies across the country. Minnesota is not left out from theses weather events. This was very interesting and a reminder to be aware and take precautions when needed. Minnesota is beautiful and there's no place like home. Thank you I subbed !
🙌love this
While it is not, never was, nor ever will be my intent to make light of this historic tornado outbreak, I would actually like to see an Emergency Alert System scenario for this storm system to see what would have happened to alert the public with today's technology if it existed in 1881. Yes, I am fully aware that 1881 not only predates the existence of the Emergency Alert System, but also the Emergency Broadcast System and CONELRAD before it. With that said, I could imagine a scenario where the National Weather Service (which _did_ exist in 1881; it was founded in 1870) could have used the existing telegraph system to telegram warnings to the public.
Interesting! Based on the damage I am hearing in this vid it may have been an F5.
Grazulis does note in his book "Significant Tornadoes 1880-1989" that this tornado was "maybe" an F5, so it's definitely possible.
@@seekingcirculation Hearing about a farm swept away with all the equipment with no trace trees completely stripped of their bark, and extreme scouring of the ground makes me think of an F5 tornado. Construction qualities are a factor but I can tell if a tornado is F5/EF5 by factors I described. Was the farm equipment mangled beyond recognition?
@@cubby091398 I'm not sure, the articles and records for the time didn't go into detail about the state of the objects, or other finer details we would expect today.
You should do the New richmond cyclone of New Richmond wi. Believed to biggest tornado to hit the town in Wisconsin History to date. I belive it was 1899.
It's been on my list of video ideas for a while. I definitely want to look into it more!
I’m amazed to hear the New Richmond tornado mentioned, it’s so obscure and yet so terrifying. I mean all tornadoes are terrifying. But the way the New Richmond one was described is especially creepy for some reason. People going about their day and then all hell breaks loose…
How heartbreaking
Description sounds sort of like El Reno 2013, large, over 2 mile wide carousel of vortices with odd path deviations.
How horribly horrific
I know that we're talking about catastrophes of a completely different nature, but extreme and vast wildlands conflagrations, such as Wisconsin's Peshtigo in 1871, and Minnesota's Hinckley in 1893, are almost completely forgotten, as well.
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Vesuvius were completely forgotten for nearly 1,800 years, until some serious and fairly accidental arcaeology took place in the mid-Eighteenth Century. I wonder if there was knowledge of Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account, to guide them back then?
And, with tsunamis, well, when one mentions the Great Tohoku Tsunami of March 3rd(?) of 2011, all one remembers is the Fukushima Reactors Meltdown. This one, had to be one of the most comprehensively documented catastrophes, yet, with astonishingly great amateur video--water level rise of up to 150'. The straight-line cousin of tornadoes, the derecho, received comprehensive videographing in the case of the Great Cedar Rapids, Iowa Derecho of almost three years ago.
I got a book on the Hinckley Fire a year ago. After reading the book I'll never forget it, that was a horror show.
at 4>08 look how small the dude at the corner of the house is compaired to the others............
How tragic
Makes living today seem like playing with barbies. Crazy storms, walking both ways to school uphill, and being scalped on a daily basis is an actual thing to worry about
Killed by flying debris. Whooooph!
I remember that tornado, I was scade
3:22 last chance to look at me