Remember watching this on PBS in like 1981 when I was little. I recorded it on cassette tape and used to listen to it when I would lay on my bunk bed. Now, I can still pick out Alan Moller’s voice on different programs from time to time.
I miss good Skywarn Schools, the one in Dallas/Garland used to be great....Alan Moller and many of the OG chasers attended. Was Basic and Advanced classes and was a day long affair. Now the classes are dumbed down and are only a couple of hours, with no Advanced class.
Thanks for posting this....I wish I could have seen this back in the 70's....seems like back in those days, people here (Chicago) didn't take Thunderstorms or Tornadoes seriously. They take them much more seriously now though.
You mean storm chasers? El Reno killed some chasers didn't it? That was tragic. Don't know what happened there. Didn't they have trained eye? They were professionals I think. And a few of our weather men from up here got caught up in that storm escaping with their lives.
@@F5Storm1 Thank you. Yeah, I found this out in another vid. A dangerous thing chasing tornadoes. Those things have a mind of their own. You never know what direction the wind will go. 👌👍
@@saiyongdawn7756 Chasers and spotters aren’t always the same thing. I’m a Skywarn spotter with my amateur radio license but I don’t go out to chase. I just report what is near my location.
Hare roll clouds...or whatever you call them. I've seen clouds which resembled funnels. Hech, a small twister came past my home as a child once, went straight down the tracks into town. Fortunately it just blew off a few roofs and uprooted a tree or two before going on about its business. No one was harmed and it was a small town where everybody knew one another. Those things are beasts. Great vid. Thanks.🙂👍
I remember being a kid in Illinois seeing that rotating green wall cloud. It scared me and fascinated me at the same time I couldnt move as a tornado popped out of it went right over my head and took out a huge oak tree as big as a house! Later I ended up moving to that town that got hit and devastated by one of the tornados in this video.
I watched this with my dad at a spotter meeting with his ham radio friends, when I was just a kid! We videotaped it, along with a Terrible Tuesday (Wichita Falls) video. Loved watching them.
I'm a trained skywarn storm spotter and I can't stand when spotters call in a tornado report and all it was was a rain shaft I have never called in a fake tornado report I go back to my training and I'll watch it over w period of time
Yep agreed. What I can’t stand is when a spotter gets on the radio and ignores reporting criteria. And who the hell cares whether (insert town here) has their sirens going? Those are activated by a firefighter. The sirens don’t magically turn on the minute a cloud rotates.
Remember watching this on PBS in like 1981 when I was little. I recorded it on cassette tape and used to listen to it when I would lay on my bunk bed. Now, I can still pick out Alan Moller’s voice on different programs from time to time.
In North Texas, it was great when Alan Moller would do severe weather bulletins on NOAA WX Radio. (Back when it was a human voice)
I miss good Skywarn Schools, the one in Dallas/Garland used to be great....Alan Moller and many of the OG chasers attended. Was Basic and Advanced classes and was a day long affair. Now the classes are dumbed down and are only a couple of hours, with no Advanced class.
Union City, Oklahoma on May 24, 1973 is the last tornado shown about 14:38. Union City is about 20 miles WSW of OKC.
Nice! I like the early tornado videos. Neat to see.
Brings back a lot of memories ...
Union City 1973 tornado life cycle at the end. Nice. (Jan Griffiths).
Thanks for posting this....I wish I could have seen this back in the 70's....seems like back in those days, people here (Chicago) didn't take Thunderstorms or Tornadoes seriously. They take them much more seriously now though.
We will never be able to replace spotters, we need trained eyes to verify what radars and satellites see
You mean storm chasers? El Reno killed some chasers didn't it? That was tragic. Don't know what happened there. Didn't they have trained eye? They were professionals I think. And a few of our weather men from up here got caught up in that storm escaping with their lives.
@@saiyongdawn7756 the tornado made a sudden turn to the northeast, accelerated rapidly, and expanded in size at the same time
@@F5Storm1 Thank you. Yeah, I found this out in another vid. A dangerous thing chasing tornadoes. Those things have a mind of their own. You never know what direction the wind will go. 👌👍
@@saiyongdawn7756 Chasers and spotters aren’t always the same thing. I’m a Skywarn spotter with my amateur radio license but I don’t go out to chase. I just report what is near my location.
Chasers and spotters are extremely valuable, technology can do a lot but human beings are always needed to confirm what radar sees or does see.
Hare roll clouds...or whatever you call them. I've seen clouds which resembled funnels. Hech, a small twister came past my home as a child once, went straight down the tracks into town. Fortunately it just blew off a few roofs and uprooted a tree or two before going on about its business. No one was harmed and it was a small town where everybody knew one another. Those things are beasts. Great vid. Thanks.🙂👍
I remember being a kid in Illinois seeing that rotating green wall cloud. It scared me and fascinated me at the same time I couldnt move as a tornado popped out of it went right over my head and took out a huge oak tree as big as a house! Later I ended up moving to that town that got hit and devastated by one of the tornados in this video.
I watched this with my dad at a spotter meeting with his ham radio friends, when I was just a kid! We videotaped it, along with a Terrible Tuesday (Wichita Falls) video. Loved watching them.
I have this one, Terrible Tuesday and "Day of the killer tornadoes", the latter about the 1974 Super Outbreak. All on the same tape.
I'm a trained skywarn storm spotter and I can't stand when spotters call in a tornado report and all it was was a rain shaft I have never called in a fake tornado report I go back to my training and I'll watch it over w period of time
Yep agreed. What I can’t stand is when a spotter gets on the radio and ignores reporting criteria. And who the hell cares whether (insert town here) has their sirens going? Those are activated by a firefighter. The sirens don’t magically turn on the minute a cloud rotates.
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