1966 Candlestick Park F5 Tornado - Mississippi’s Longest Twister
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I was a bun in the oven when this happened, but my daddy was a survivor. He was with his buddies at Candlestick, and the tornado picked him up and carried him (in his car) all the way to Forest Hill High School and set him down in the field that used to be across from it. The car, a 65 Mustang, looked like a crumpled up piece of paper, but daddy came out of it with broken ribs, cuts and slashes all over, and an absolute fear of tornadoes that lasted the rest of his life. Sometimes he would pull tiny bits of glass out of his skin that had worked itself out decades after. As a result, I've grown up with a healthy fear of tornadoes, generational trauma I guess. I used to live right down from Candlestick and I never passed by it without thinking about what happened. I still live in South Jackson, it's my home. And yes, people today still talk about it and how it affected them and the community. I almost lost my daddy before I was born, so yeah, it's affected me without me actually being there. Thank you for doing this video, as it seems that this monster gets overlooked by other TH-camrs.
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The question is , why? Seeing the shithole it has become... why stay and risk your life?
@@DeeGee-mv6eq Money. Or rather, the lack of.
My family moved to a neighborhood near Candlestick Park in 1968 two years after "the tornado". Many houses in the area were brand new because they had been wiped off their concrete slabs and rebuilt. Years after, we kids found debris and even cars in trees miles away from the site.
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I found debris from my trailer park, years after our tornado, in a treeline about 3/4 of a mile away.
...It was not even a major tornado, though an elderly lady passed away from it, in the neighborhood.😢
Several trailers were rolled, our neighbor across the street lost his dog and his trailer-it was gone.
Vacuumed clean off the pad.
(He was a retired guy, and was drinking at the bar, in mid-afternoon, a couple of miles away. He was ok.)
If you must live in a mobile home, try to get tie-downs applied.
Otherwise it's about as safe as being in a car.
Cars were so much bigger and heavier back then. So to see this tornado pick up and throw so many cars is crazy.
And the guy who survived because he wore his seatbelt in his car is incredible too because a lot of people didn’t even have seatbelts in their cars let alone use them.
In general yes, but a VW Bug wasn't bigger or heavier than cars today.
@@88wildcat but VW bug is full steel. thus heavier then the plastic ford f1-50s
@@yunoyukki73441965 VW bug weighs 1600lbs, 2024 ford f-150 weighs 4390-5860 depending on options and cab size.
Why do people say stupid shit to try and make a point or sefend a bad argument. Sometimes your just wrong or missunderstood. Dont then double down. Damn.
I grew up hearing about this from my mother. She wasn't there but always talked about the story of the man that never made it out of the barber's chair before he was killed. They talk about this tornado like they talked about hurricane Camille. Burt Case stayed on the air in Jackson pretty much until his death just a few years ago. There was also an article a few years ago about a man (boy) at the time that was walking home from school or the mall with a friend. When the tornado hit they turned a garbage can over and tried to hide under it standing up. Some man looked out his window and ran out screaming for them to get in his house. They all lived.
Tornado described as "rainshaft" to the unsuspecting. The same happened with the 1925 Tri-State Tornado, the people saw the turbulence and thought it was just a severe thunderstorm until they were in it and realized what was happening.
Not to mention that tornado was reportedly haulin dirty ass at highway speeds.
You definitely need more attention
well thank ya kindly!
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Thank you so much for covering this event. This tornado is my first memory. I was 3 years old and we lived about 2 miles from Candlestick Park. What I remember is looking out through our sliding glass doors and seeing the sky turn green, then watching as the pine trees began violently swaying. We fortunately suffered no damage. My mother told me that my father was going to be late getting home - that he had gone to help people. I later learned that he and his coworkers had observed the tornado from the upper floors of their office downtown and had gone to the area to aid in the search and rescue. This event, even though I was not directly impacted, has stayed with me ever since.
That's one hell of a first memory
You are a fantastic researcher. I live in Vicksburg about 40 to the west of Jackson. I was 6 when that happened and don’t recall it. But, it’s very true that people talked about it for decades following it! There was an F-5 in Vicksburg in 1953. It killed 38. My mother, now 83 avoided being killed by missing her usual habit of going to the movies every Saturday. The twister hit that theater killing some of her friends that she hung around with.
I spent part of my working career responding to natural disasters. I took my name off the list after that 2011 outbreak. That Smithville tornado was the first F-5 I responded to. My mind was blown after seeing the heavy gauge steel of a tall water tower with a sizable dent in it. That twisted picked up a Ford Escape SUV and slammed it into that water tank! I was sent to Alabama just as soon as I was done in Mississippi. After that, I had seen too much devastation. I retired in 2015 and still get very nervous every time the skies get cloudy here. 😳😅
I live just south of Memphis
Thank you so much for taking time to share your experience. I will likely cover Vicksburg at some point in the future, what a devastating twister, I’m so glad your mother is here today to tell that story!
I absolutely don’t blame you for taking your name off, what a horrible outbreak in 2011, unfathomable.
But you are a hero for dedicating your time to helping others, truly❤it’s not a job just anybody can do
@@carlyannawx Silly me, I realized why I don’t hear as much talk about those past tornadoes. The old timers that lived through it are gone. It isn’t funny, but more recently we’ve had EF-1s and EF-2s strike our area with people’s reactions as if they’ve witnessed Armageddon. I hold my tongue from saying you haven’t seen real tornado damage yet.
Glad your mom is still around to tell the story. Its so crazy how that one decision not to go to the theater made all the difference.
I was in candlestick Shopping center when the tornado hit. I was a freshman at Mississippi College that year.
We were in the center of the strip mall at the slot car racing store. I first ran out into the parking lot to take cover under a car but changed my mind the last minute and turned and ran into the grocery store at the end of the shopping center. A moment later the tornado hit the building. I thought I was going to be killed but miraculously walked away with only a puncture wound to my leg. My college friend laid down outside the grocery store windows and had glass cuts on the back of his hands.
We drove a very injured man to the hospital and returned to college campus. We uncovered many from the debris who were badly injured or dead. 3 years ago a tornado passed through my backyard here in NC. I remembered the sound when I heard it.
I just turned 76 last month and every March 3rd I always remember that eventful day. My college friend who was with me that day died at age 30 from cancer. I was cured from cancer 7 years ago. I am the most fortunate man!
My daughter graduated from Mississippi college in 2021! Growing up in Tuscaloosa you know a lot about tornadoes and living in tornado alley. Nowadays I don’t concern myself with tornadoes too much-I have to worry about hurricanes!! Glad you made it through.
Hi, you were at the slot car place? So was my daddy, that's why he was at Candlestick, to race the slot cars before he went to work.
@@ChristChickAutisticYea, I was there in the slot car store and ran to the grocery store just before the tornado hit.
@@mileyparrish9944 damn dude, wow! Daddy ran to his car from what he told me, a black 65 Mustang. The monster picked him up in the car and dropped him off across from Forest Hill. Mama was at work, I was cooking in her belly at the time, she was working for my uncle Pops at the time, he had a car dealership. Daddy survived, but he had issues with that day the rest of his life.
I just realized that you're the same age as my mama. I'm glad you, and my mama of course, are still with us. 😁❤️
You always uncover the human element, as well as a solid meteorological breakdown of the events. Brilliant work Carly.
One tornado that would make an awesome story was the Barneveld Tornado of 1984 it’s the crown jewel here in Wisconsin. The wind speeds hit 300 mph, the storm was described as a strobe light. It happened at night out of the blue. A guy in the TH-cam comments said the rain was so heavy it almost caved in his shed! I love your videos by the way : ) very pretty eyes 😮
It's so weird that this wasn't a part of some huge outbreak, but it was just one single supercell causing a tornado. Sometimes caps in the atmosphere are great when they prevent supercells from popping up everywhere, but when a storm does get through, it's almost always a horrible one.
I couldn’t believe it as first! The ONE supercell that breaks through is a long track F5, looking at the map with one storm like that is still so odd to me.
@@carlyannawx Mississippi has a weird history of single supercells staying on the ground and doing massive damage. I guess if they overcome the trees and terrain, there’s not much to stop them.
Yeah I just read a article about a Mississippi tornado outbreak that happened in the year 1883. You received no warnings back then.
Up until weather radar got better w/Doppler Radar, you didn’t get much a warning until after the fact.
I live in Jackson, MS. When I was a kid, my grandmother always use to tell me the story of this tornado. Though she was not a victim, every time she talked about it she could vividly recount word for word what she experienced that day as she was on her way home from work. She lived in North Jackson but worked not far from South Jackson where Candlestick Park is located. It was so weird and terrifying the way she described the look of the clouds. She also described how uneasy she felt, like something terrible was about to happen. What's crazy is I didn't realize until I got older just how infamous this tornado actually was. But then again, I do recall older people always referring back to this event in such a way that it had to be life changing and traumatic even if they were not directly affected. I use to teach Taekwondo at Candlestick Park about 10 years ago. It always freaked me out knowing that I was standing right in the middle of that area that got obliterated all those years ago. 😳 Now that area is mostly abandoned, but the Candlestick Park sign still stands. Anyway we recently dodged a bullet because an outbreak with possible strong and long-track tornadoes were predicted to be very likely in our area earlier this week. Reed Timmer was here for it and thats always exciting LOL. Luckily it didn't happen but we did get a few in some neighboring counties. With that being said it could have been much worse!! Love your videos!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
I love reading stories like this. Such unique insight that you wouldn't find anywhere else. Thank you for sharing.
@@Midnight24435 me too. 😞🙏🏻💗
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this story!! These are always the kinds of comments that I really appreciate, people taking time to share family stories. I cannot imagine how scary that would be to go through, your grandmother had a good intuition on that day. It’s always strange how we can sometimes “just know” we’re in danger without any real evidence besides feeling.
I think that’s what sticks out to me the most, how this event has lived on. Even you feeling that at the Taekwondo studio is a testament to just how long lasting these events really are!
I grew up just south of there, and my parents’ generation spoke of it in hushed tones. It’s just not well known outside of the state.
@@carlyannawx No problem! Yeah these events do tend to have long lasting effects. I actually got up close and personal with this one th-cam.com/video/jrkzBpeybkc/w-d-xo.html . Well it found me lol. It missed my job by a couple hundred yards. Not a historic tornado but still it made me feel very small in the grander scale of things lol. I still can't believe I actually saw it. It reached EF-3 if remember correctly so it was definitely dangerous. That was two weeks before the Super Outbreak of 2011. Definitely a weird and unforgettable year. In one of your videos you've even covered the Bassfield EF-4 (EF-5 in my opinion) that struck on Easter 2020. It was almost as wide as El Rino. I have photos and videos of the damage left from that storm. Its unbelievable! Anyway, I can get a little obsessed over this stuff but another one you may want to cover in a future video is April 24, 2010 Yazoo City, MS. Can't wait for the next one!!
9:32 those weren’t rain clouds. It was a mile wide multiple vortex wedge Tornado just an absolute bulldozing monster. Another Hackleburg type tornado. Similar to what the tri state tornado looked like I bet too. Great documentary as always Carly. Would love to see you do some more of the major tornadoes of April 27 2011.
I don't know who's producing these but they're doing a seriously professional job.
That is a huge compliment because it’s just me hahah. I am admittedly really horrible with editing, but I am slowly learning :)
@@carlyannawx Your videos are incredibly good for someone just starting out. I’ve seen TH-camrs with many more subscribers that don’t put out this kind of content.
I lived through that tornado and this is the best explanation of that day I have ever seen...
Who else feels that historical tornadoes are absolutely terrifying and yet also fascinating? Topeka, Tri-State, the photograph of the 1927 Jasper, Minnesota tornado....Tornado history, with it's haunting black and white photographs, are one of the most fascinating topics there is to discuss. On a darker note, the destruction of these older tornadoes is mind-boggling, given that buildings weren't as strongly constructed as today.
I agree. As horrible as these events were, I have a morbid fascination with the tornadoes' formation and evolution throughout their track. I've observed that the most devastating ones form rapidly and dissipate just as quickly. I've always wondered how this happens.
@@melodyrichardson5051 Possibly due to the tremendous energy rapidly building up, released at once and then ending just as quickly.
Interestingly, most scientists believe that the 1925 Tri-State tornado (with a track of over 300 miles) was in fact a tornado family producing funnels on a continuous track. The chances of a single tornado travelling for that long is virtually impossible. It's a shame that there are no photos of it.
@@dieterdelange9488 Doing his research Dr.Charles Doswell interviewed several eyewitnesses and survivors of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado who were still alive at the time to describe what they saw. He showed them pictures of Modern day Tornadoes and asked them which comes closest to what they saw. The elderly people pointed to the 1979 Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado and said that is what they saw coming at them.
@@tripplebrown2132 I once saw an "alleged" photo of the Tri-State tornado, which turned out to be the Wichita Falls tornado edited to look like the brown, faded photographs of the 1920s. I was bitterly disappointed!
@@dieterdelange9488 I've seen that photo before immediately recognized it. Doswell actually showed them a REAL photo of the Wichita Twister with other photos of other tornadoes. There are no Photo of the Tri-State Tornado but according to these witnesses and survivors The Wichita Falls Tornado comes closest to what they saw. Another Tornado to look at is the 1981 Binger, Oklahoma Tornado its 3/4 mile wide wedge and all really Black and it resembles a "dark smokey fog appearance".
I remember reading some online articles on this one. It’s absolutely insane…😨
I grew up nearby and remember the stories from this disaster. There was a waitress, originally from England, who worked at a restaurant in the shopping center. She pushed two kids under a table, saving their lives. She didn’t survive.
Oooo Carly going back to the old tornadoes.
I can't help myself, I really really enjoy the "vintage" footage
@@carlyannawxsame I can't lie. I'm covering some from . . *Check notes* 1870. 😅
my dad worked in a high-rise and had a view of the tornado at a distance of about 6 miles. Another friend, John Williams, was a boy my age and lived right t on the edge of the path and still things snapped but the damage was not as great. However, John lost a lot of friends in that Tornado and is still haunted by it.
We absolutely love your channel its such great information and presentation. Great job on all your videos. Keep them coming.
Stacey! Thank you so much, that is so kind of you 🥹❤️❤️ you didn’t have to do that!! I’m glad y’all are enjoying, I will continue doing my best!
@@carlyannawx Your very welcome! It's our pleasure! We love everything weather.
What's with the $50.00 sign in pink, about?
A couple days ago on November 29th, 2022 there was a major tornado outbreak that happened in Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and the hardest hit Mississippi. Currently as of the date of the comment, we do not have the official tornado ratings, but I do believe that there was a significant tornado (EF2 - EF5) so please send some thoughts and prayers for the people affected by this
There were 2 ef3s and that's the highest rating
Could’ve been much worse but the storms stayed elevated hailers or just couldn’t organize for long it’s scary to think that even when the storms were struggling 2 EF3s and multiple EF2s and over 50 tornados total happened across multiple states thank god they stayed short tracked and struggled because long track violent tornados would’ve happened if the models got it right there were actual supercells on the NAM, HRRR, ETC, ETC crazy day
EF1 that hit Eutaw, AL & EF2 that killed two North of Montgomery, AL. The EF2 tracked all the way across AL from MS
I think the entire system spawned 24 confirmed tornadoes, including a few nighttime tornadoes in a line from Mississippi that managed to stay together for hours, and energized near central Alabama where it dropped an EF-2 at 3 am. I can’t count the number of warnings we’ve gotten but that was the closest call yet and I don’t want to live in Dixie Alley anymore.
@@jamessimms415 it happened right down the street from my house I heard it coming and everything
There’s still a lot with just a slab left on it just down from Candlestick Park. The whole family lost their lives in that home and no one has ever rebuilt on that spot.
This tornado is also the same one that is mentioned in the movie “The Help”.
You've done a great job describing the Candlestick Park tornado. I was nine years old at the time, but still remember it vividly. I still live in the home I lived in then in the community of Pearl, about four miles from the Knox Glass plant that was destroyed by the twister. Joe Bullock, mentioned in your report, was the grandfather of my ex step-son. Needless to say, that tornado was devastating and deadly, and I do believe it remained one twister the entire time into Alabama. Keep up the good work.
Older black and white footage of tornados creeps me out in a way I didn’t know it could.
Hey Carly thanks for the great video. I live just outside Jackson and I was here when the storm hit, which that started my interest in tornadoes. In 1966 I was only 5 years old, but the first images from South Jackson really got me scared of tornadoes. (BTW the irony in the video of the tornado is that was a picture of the storm taken as it passed just south of downtown. The film was shot by a photographer from WLBT-TV, the station whose studio was just north of the path and whose tower had been collapsed by the storm in the southwestern part Hinds County,
Also what got to me was my mother worked at a local hospital that had to go into emergency mode. For a 5-year-old knowing that a tornado has struck and your mom has to stay at work because of it, that was scary. As I grew older and learned more about the science I am less afraid and more knowledgeable about the odds of getting hit.
I knew several people who were affected by the storm. One of my parents' friends worked at the glass factory that got hit on the east side of the Pearl River and was permanently injured in his hand. Another friend was visiting her grandmother in that area when the storm passed just to the south... her grandmother's barn was torn up.
Thanks for your great storm videos, very entertaining and informative.
Thank you for another great video. I live about an hour north of tuscaloosa and I have never heard of this tornado. Some tornadoes in alabama that might interest you is huntsville, al. Nov. 1989 f4. April 8, 1998 near birmingham. F5 palm sunday 1994 f4 near piedmont, al hit a church during services. Late 1970s f5 north birmingham.
1932 Deep South Outbreak that killed around 30 in Tuscaloosa & Northport & around 200+ elsewhere. Plus the April 1977 Smithfield (Birmingham), AL tornado that Dr. Ted Fujita considered calling an F6. That storm so severely damaged Daniel Payne College North of Birmingham, that it went out business & was part of the same system that caused the crash of Southern Airways Flight 242 near Atlanta, GA.
Plus the November 1989 Huntsville, AL tornado
Yes, a study of the April 4, 1977 Birmingham, Alabama tornado that hit Smithfield Estates and the April 8, 1998 tornado that tore up numerous towns and communities west of Birmingham, Alabama would be good.
Hi! Loved this as a Mississippian, and love your videos a lot! I'd love to see you talk about the EF-4 that tore through Hattiesburg, MS! I think it's amazing that an EF-4 went through a HUGE college campus and one of the most populated areas... and it didn't kill anyone! It was incredibly lucky. Again, love your videos.
One of the more forgotten violent F5's in tornadic lore. Certainly obscured. Miss the old Storm Stories format with Jim Cantore serving as both the narrator and host fittingly of course. There was an episode featuring this outbreak and it was interesting to learn more about the insights of this neighborhood from the native Mississippians in I believe south Jackson. Every day when I got home from school in my formative years, I couldn't wait to dial in any of my tv's to the Weather Channel for any ongoing convection and particularly in the spring for tornado season. It was before one could stream anything so easily. Couldn't take my eyes off the clocks in all of my classrooms at the end of the day, lol. Thanks for this, Carly.
Thank you Carly Anna WX. I've seen the Storm Stories episode on this tornado.
It was a good one! They had a really good interview with Larry Swales and a few others
@@carlyannawx Paula Pace has since passed away. She was 90 when she passed.
My dad was at his grandparents house on McCluer road, pretty much directly south of Candlestick Park, he was 7 and remembers seeing it go by. I have heard the story from him, my mom, and my grandparents several times. I would often ride with my grandma to the post office that was located at Candlestick when I was younger (35 now) and the story would generally come up. We were in that area a lot as kids, passing by, or stopping there to watch the RC cars race at the small tracks they had setup. Later in my teens frequenting the bowling alley with friends. Regardless of the time in my life or the reason I was there, anytime I’d see the infamous Candlestick sign I would think of the stories about the tornado. Being a weather buff it always fascinated me. Even to this day, when there is severe weather, tornado warnings etc, and a few people are convened around a tv at work watching our local weather guys and gals report on what’s going on, more often than not, stories comes up from friends, co workers, etc. Most anyone around this area knows of it, from their parents or grandparents. Thanks for covering this, I enjoyed learning more about it, outside of the many stories I’ve heard.
The closest a tornado has probably ever come to me was when I was six (and sound asleep in a mobile home, yikes), in the November 1992 outbreak. It officially traveled 160 miles over the eastern third of North Carolina. On the Wikipedia page of that outbreak, it states that this was probably a tornado family and not a single twister, and cites Mr. Grazulis's work. It's too bad there's no way to know for certain about that, or if the Candlestick Park tornado was also a continuous path. It's trivial anyhow, but I'm sure that damage surveys have gotten better over the years and we'll get near- accurate information on tornado tracks in the future.
It's good to be learning about this storm often times when you hear about tornado history in Mississippi they usually talk about the one that took place in 1936 in Tupelo Mississippi.
1936 Tupelo- Gainesville tornado
@@bensasser5759 Thank you
@@grapeshot you’re welcome
That’s the one that just missed a young Elvis Presley’s house, while his father was in prison. His mother said, “God has a plan for you, son.”
My great-aunt died in the Tupelo storm. Long before I was born, obviously.
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The way you balance the aspects that are not talked about (damage to rural areas, injures and mental health) and the science. Gives the victims a voice.
1966 was another year with some historic F5 tornadoes. I would love to request the 1966 Topeka twister! That tornado did very extreme F5/EF5 damage to stone structures and proved many theories wrong.
Would love to see a video about the April 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes. I grew up in Goshen Indiana, in the years right after those storms. That's where the infamous picture of the twin funnels was taken. Legendary stories. I for one definitely take severe storms seriously.
I have seen pictures of twin funnels just looking at them you can see the strenght of those storms
I have original newspaper clippings from this tornado. My grandmother stopped by the grocery store with my mom, aunt, and uncle 5 minutes before it hit. The only reason they weren't in the store was because she was too tired to go in with 3 kids. She lived on the road across the street from Candlestick Park.
Which house?
Wow!!! Did they survive the tornado?
Thank you, Carly! As usual, very informative with no "fluff", just facts! This channel definitely deserves much more attention than it's gotten so far. 💜
Lived through May 3rd in a cellar. Just got off of work and cried/chased 2013. Right to that 7/11. I experienced and seen things that forever haunt me.
But yet I'm so captivated and appreciate your videos. Thank you
Yay another Carly video! So excited to watch 💕
thank you for being here:)
I would love to see the Tri-state tornado covered. Your great research and sympathetic tone in which you tell these sad stories is refreshing.
I actually have filmed it once! I ended up scrapping it because it didn’t turn out as I had intended, but I still have the script. I will get to it soon ❤
@@carlyannawx and here’s one piece of information on that tornado. The reason why it appeared as a “giant cloud/fog” was because the storm was a high precipitation supercell. The heaviest rain shafts tend to look like a giant cloud on ground level.
The following is a survivor's account of the tornado, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 20, 1925: "All morning, before the tornado, it had rained. The day was dark and gloomy. The air was heavy. There was no wind. Then the drizzle increased. The heavens seemed to open, pouring down a flood. The day grew black. Then the air was filled with 10,000 things. Boards, poles, cans, garments, stoves, whole sides of the little frame houses, in some cases the houses themselves, were picked up and smashed to earth. And living beings, too. A baby was blown from its mother’s arms. A cow, picked up by the wind, was hurled into the village restaurant."
A tornado that fascinates me, thanks for covering it!!
Great content as always! Would definitely like to see more livestreams from you!
I agree!
Agree! Especially this spring during tornado season.
Please do the Vicksburg F5 that literally hopped the mighty Mississippi!!
1953. Before then people mistakenly thought a tornado wouldn’t hit the city because of the river and the bluffs. I thought about becoming a storm chaser, but reconsidered it. In the training class we had a meteorologist admit when asked that the river has no effect, but the bluffs have a little effect as winds rebound off the hills. I live downtown and have often witnessed tornadoes skip over or push to the north (typically around Eagle Lake) or south. That effect cannot be counted on for safety as proven by that recent EF-2 that hit the Pemberton Drive area.
@@Hero4Hire4 I lived on Washington St. for a couple of months and I was shocked to realize that the area I was living in was pretty much rubble. When did the EF-2 hit Pemberton Drive?? I got my groceries at that Kroger!
I was in Candlestick Park that day. For some reason, my mother was unable to get our usual babysitter, and so she took me and my younger sister with her to her beauty shop appointment. I was only 5, and my sister was 3. My memory is spotty, of course, but I do remember being outside and noticing how violent the wind was becoming (my mother said she had given us some change so we could go to a machine and get us each a Coke, probably outside that grocery store). I remember we had just returned to the beauty shop when some woman started screaming one of the loudest and most terrified screams I’ve ever heard. My mother jumped out of her chair and covered me and my sister with something and then it hit. I just seemed like the building exploded. I remember the people scattered all over the place, many of them moaning and of course some of them dead. I was not pinned down and jumped up right away, and I remember my mother screaming at me to sit back down until she could get free. She was half buried in rubble. I remember someone put us in a pickup truck and drove us to the hospital, my sister and me in front and my mother in the back. I remember the towel wrapped around her head that was getting redder and redder. She lost a lot of blood and I think took a couple months to fully recover, but luckily we all fully recovered except that severe weather still scares the hell out of me.
I lived in Woodville Heights, which is the neighborhood that was affected, at the time of the tornado. Our house was only three blocks from Candlestick Park. We were fortunate that it only picked up a couple of shingles on our house. I was 8 years old at that time and don’t remember a whole lot about it except for my mom telling us to get under the bed. But I had a classmate that was hurt in the tornado and came back to school several weeks later on crutches and told of her experience. She was in a little ice cream or malt shop (I think it was called Mr. Swiss but I could be wrong). It was just across the parking lot from the main strip of stores at Candlestick Park. It was a small building and a car ended up inside the building on top of her. She still had car oil that wouldn’t complete come out of her hair even several weeks later. We’ve always remembered that tornado (even if I don’t remember all the details of it). I guess I could have suppressed some memories!
@@steveandtammyb I know the little malt shop you’re talking about. I always thought it was a Dog ‘n Suds, but not sure where I heard that. I remember the building but not the name.
@@steveandtammyb and another thing, just remembered: my mother and father narrowly missed the F5 tornado that hit downtown Vicksburg about a dozen years earlier. They were dating at the time, and were baby-sitting my oldest cousin. They’d gone to a children’s matinee and, because my cousin was bored with the picture, and another group of kids was apparently making lots of noise, they left and went home. They saw the tornado moving toward downtown as they were driving away.
As I said earlier, severe weather scares the crap out of me. But for my poor mother it was almost debilitating. She was terrified of weather bulletins for many years.
Thank You Carly, another hit, Right out of the ball park. (Candle Stick Park, the ball park in S. F. CA.) Thank you for these videos.
Topeka, Ks June 1966. One of the most costly tornado of its time. Would have been considered F5. Great stories from Bill Kurtis (his language & desperation caught people’s attention enough for him to be taken serious) & Rick Douglass (a reporter picked up by the tornado, haunting pics of him caked in mud, and he lived). I think it’s one you should take a look at it.
It is so intriguing the way that some cars are gently lifted and set down, and others are tossed around like paper cups. While you can take every precaution, sometimes it's a matter of luck or God's will. Thank you for sharing this story♥️
A really good one. Not many people really talk about this event these days though it was in my opinion a seminal event in Dixie tornado history. Well done again Carly!
I guess because it was such a turbulent era socially in Mississippi at that time, this disaster just didn’t get much coverage.
I realized why myself there isn’t that much talk these days. Most of the people that lived through it have passed away. I was a child back then and I’m in my 60’s now. She featured WLBT newsman Bert Case. He passed in 2016. I don’t think any of the news folks from that era are still with us? There may be a few survivors still around, but they won’t likely be remembered until the next tornado hits.
@@Hero4Hire4 I grew up south of Jackson, and remember Bert well. He was one of the old-school beat reporters until he died.
@@Hero4Hire4 Yeah, I am 61 now and was 5 when the storm hit. Most of my memories are from watching the coverage on WJTV news (WLBT, the only other station in Jackson at the time was whose tower had gotten blown down). Most of us who lived through this are now older with young people memories (a very different perspective).
I would love to see you cover the tornado that hit on my hometown on my 3rd birthday. The tornado hit La Plata, Maryland on April 28th, 2002. My parents were on the way home from Waldorf, which is less than 10 minutes away from it, and my grandfather and uncle were listening to it as it ran just across Route 6 from them. I don't know why, but I feel like my sick obsession with them started the first time I was told about it. You could also cover the one that struck in 1926 that wiped out the Elementary school of the time, which became the Middle School I went to.
I remember that 2002 tornado vividly(f5), very destructive. The weather was quite unstable that day and Topper Shutt of 9 news was imploring people to take cover in LaPlata. I lived 10 miles from LaPlata at the time. I also recall the 1926 tornado during my research. Thank you for bringing it up. If i'm not mistaken the twister of 2002 took almost the exact same path as the 1926 twister. Peace to u
Im from Starkville, MS. And now live in Neshoba County. My mom told me about this tornado. So awesome to finally see someone talk about it
Carly love your videos im from Mississippi not alot of people talk about Mississippi
Isn’t that the truth!?? And it seems like we are the ones who get most of the tornado warnings anyway and we definitely get our fair share of tornadoes! I remember when the Weather Channel called us the “land mass” between Alabama and Louisiana! Ridiculous!
I live in Central Mississippi, so this really captured my attention
The 1936 tupelo-gainesville outbreak , 2 tornados alone killed over 400 people... my grandmother live about 12-15 miles from tupelo and she claimed there was debris from that tornado that fell close to her home
Hello Carly and thank you for sharing this awesome video.
My mother and I outran this tornado in our car. I was 6. Larry Swales (featured in this video) is my cousin. It was so close behind us, I couldn't see a funnel shape. I only saw a huge black curtain that hung from sky to ground. South Jackson was a wonderful family centered community. This tornado left scars in many people's childhood memories to this day
Omg, that is horrifying. I was also 6 yrs old at the time, and today is the first time I’ve heard of this tornado.
I’m a self proclaimed weather buff and have been making my way through your videos. I’m fascinated by historic weather events and their aftermaths. Your meticulous research is second to none! Keep them coming. One I’d like to see you do if you get time, is the 1947 Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornado. Thank you for producing these!
Love your content, which is well researched I might add.
You should cover the 1966 Topeka Tornado.
I get super excited when a new Carly video gets uploaded!
The 1840 Natchez tornado killed hundreds in both Mississippi and Louisiana. It got a lot of people in the river.
Thx weather girl , love the laughs
Oh candlestick park does ring a bell
...a glass factory...yay
Great video! I live in Memphis and have family in North MS. There was a tornado that decimated Tupelo in the 1920's or 30's and I remember my Great Grandma telling me about her husband, father, and brothers traveling from the Olive Branch area to Tupelo to help with disaster relief. Also, there was one that hit the town of Byhalia in the early 1950's that my Mom remembers being in the storm shelter for. It destroyed a house my great grandparents later purchased because it had been rebuilt but you can see in the boards of the roof where they salvaged boards from the home that had been destroyed to build the home that is there now.
Great job on doing your research on tornados from that time period. Just getting the archived video was a time consuming challenge. Excellent job Carly😁
Great video! Love the way you put these together. You should look into the 1957 Fargo, North Dakota EF-5 tornado. Born/raised in ND and have visited Fargo many times. I don't know how much info is out there though. I remember leaving Fargo and seeing a massive funnel to the west of town. As a kid who was terrified of tornadoes, I was glad we were leaving 😂
This is why I love her content, she covers storms I never have heard of.
The lady talking at the beginning of this video is Lorian Hemingway. She wrote a book called A World Turned Over which describes this event in the most personal and detailed way. Her writing is as emotionally moving and compassionate as Carly is on this wonderful channel. Thank you ladies for helping us understand this tragic moment in American weather history.
Thank you Carly not just for covering the usual bad tornadoes of recent times but these historic ones too. I sub, and I always mention your channel to others when recommending Timmer for epic close range footage, Skip Talbot for amazing knowledge and science and Carly Anna for awesome history.
The Beatles must have missed this disaster by a pinch when they played their last ever gig at Candlestick Park summer of '66
Different Candlestick Park.
I’ve watched all your videos multiple times! And now a new one yay!!! Thank you for all your hard work put into them!
Babe! Babe wake up! Carly posted a video!!! 🌪️🌪️🌪️
Thanks for making these videos so we all can enjoy!
Residents must really love that shopping center!
Candlestick was a big draw through the late 70s, but then the Metrocenter Mall opened in 1978 and drew a lot of the area customers. Today Candlestick has a lot of small stores and a police station. There hasn't been a grocery store there in more than 30 years.
We did. We had Candlestick, Appleridge, Mart 51, and Cook center in the area, and many of the shops had a lot of character. At 4 y.o.a. I only cared about soft serve ice cream. That was our grocery store.
Another slam dunk, Carly. Bravo. Very well done, very well researched, and I'll stop what I'm doing to watch your videos every time you post. Cheers.
I would love a video on the Sunnyvale-Garland-Rowlett EF-4 tornado that struck on December 26, 2015. It was very rare for that time of year and was a massive tornado that caused multiple fatalities in a very populated area.
Thank you Carly! Another wonderful and in depth video about a fairly obscure event!
In depth
On March 2nd 2012 an F4 tornado in Indiana hit several towns but did the most damage in Henryville. There's a lot of video of this storm. NWS also confirmed that a second, weaker tornado followed a short time later and hit the town again. Would love to see you do a video on this storm
In my 44 years on this amazing planet 🌎. I can recall alot moments when storms such as severe storms and winter storms have hit not only my area in northwest Alabama, but even around the rest of the US. I've never been particularly scared of tornadoes just fascinated by them, which in turn made me pay alot of attention to the science behind not only tornadoes and severe storms. But also winter weather. I remember being very young and at the grocery store with my mom and dad, hearing people talk about storms and possible tornadoes. That would have been the latter part of the 1980's. And the one that my thoughts go to is the Nov 15th 1989 tornado that hit Huntsville, Alabama. And one hit my area, only a small one but, a tornado that did damage. I just remember people laughing and saying "Ah there won't be nothing but some thunder and maybe some lightning. They're always trying to get people all riled up and it's always a false alarm." Hearing that bothered me. When that system came across where I lived. I remember that dark sky, with a green tent, almost teal. Then getting home and watching the news stations, which all were outta Huntsville, the southside of that city was just destroyed. From then on I was hooked. And I still hear people today act like these storms are just sensationalized for some reason. What do you do or say? Until people experience it for themselves, I think education is all we can do.
I love your channel. Keep up the good work
Thank you Carly.. Im trying to collect all the data I can to present to our emergency management team in Tate county . If you can imagine this...a lot of our counties have only one storm shelter. I feel we need more . One of our biggest growing communities, Hernando has NO storm shelter. I appreciate all your research
That's the sad thing many small towns have no community centers or any place for residents to go
Thanks Carly, outstanding as usual. It is great to see a young person well spoken and present her info in the manner she does. Two thumbs up!
Hey Carly I Loved The Live Stream
Hi , I was 5 when this happened we lived in Lena Ms and my daddy worked at B C Rogers Poultry in Morton, he got killed on his way home that day , he got caught in the tornado, I remember that day it was actually a sunny day my mama washed clothes and hung them outside and by evening the weather had changed
In about a month after this event, a family of two tornadoes crossed the Florida peninsula as well, with the first being the strongest of the two and in state history at F4, the second at F2. Both of them had a track of over 120 miles. A very bad year for the southeast.
Imagine the Correlation Coefficient signature when the WLBT TV tower was destroyed had Dual Pol Doppler Radar been in use then?
No Doppler was not implemented until after the 1974 outbreak. The radar at the time was more suited for tracking aircraft than storm cells.
WLBT’s tower fell again in 1997 due to an accident. I was actually watching it, and wondered why it just faded out. It killed two tower workers.
No, neither of the Jackson TV stations had weather radar at the time. WLBT, whose tower was toppled by the storm, was off the air because it it. (Ironically the film of the storm in this video was actually taken just south of WLBT's studio in downtown Jackson). WJTV was the only TV on air at the time. The first weather radar in Jackson came to WLBT in 1970 just six months ahead of the 1971 Delta Outbreak.
@@jeffvanschoonhoven5171 Read my post again. It said ‘had Doppler Radar been in use then.’ Go back to school & relearn how to comprehend sentences
Doppler was still in development so all they had was the WSR 57D BLACK AND WHITE radars
Oh I remember seeing Carly on a Ryan live before. I was just wondering what happened to her I thought she did so well. I think this is definitely a channel that’s going to take off, happy to have found it. Very informative and well put together!
These are such well made videos! Also your voice is so soothing to listen to! Thank you for everything you do to make this quality content and to educate us.
I agree Carly. Your voice is soothing to listen to. ASMR lol! ❤
Another Mississippi tornado outbreak that you might want to look into Carly would be the Feb. 21, 1971 delta outbreak that devastated parts of NE Louisiana and NW Mississippi. One of the tornadoes is officially listed as an F5 although that rating is disputed.
I read the book about this very tornado years ago. Nice presentation.
Hi Carly! thanks for the upload! Always a must watch.......
30:56 according to Skip Talbot it is not uncommon for a tornado to take a left hand turn during its course on the ground
Carly, another great video! You have really come into your own and I am fast viewing you as the tornado queen of you tube! Please don't change how you do what you do. It seems like most you tubers I follow start out organically with their own quirky style - which is the appeal! - gain traction and before you know it they're adding flashy intros, gimmicky music, slick sets, and generally ruining their original appeal...actually thinking it will take them to the next level. It does not. Stay true to you and your rapidly expanding community of tornado fans and I guarantee you will experience great success. Hi to Blaze! Merry Christmas!
I live 20 minutes from there and didn't know about this. Thanks for the video
You easily have the best channel on this subject. I just stumbled in. I don't usually watch weather channels.
I think this tornado is almost forgotten because of everything going on at the time. The civil rights movement, Vietnam, the Cold War, etc. The US military even did two underground nuclear tests in Mississippi around that time!
Also black citizens were not represented in media at the time. WLBT, the station knocked off the air when the storm toppled their tower, intentionally blocked news reports from NBC which talked about blacks and network shows with black people in it.
Those of us who lived there surely have never forgotten! I was 8 years old!
Yes, the only place east of the Mississippi River to have nuclear tests.
Moved to Mississippi in 2021 for school and lived right off spring ridge road in hinds county.. didn't know that was where this touched down.
'Course to add onto my previous comment, not that any of my studies were ever unimportant as learning is something I take very seriously, but other curriculums relative to atmospheric sciences as a proud weather nerd, I mean, c'mon on. It speaks for itself.
Yay the wonderful beautiful Carly is back
I really enjoy your channel
Thanks for the new upload!