The fact that the trailer park even had a shelter is astounding. It should be a federal requirement that any mobile home type community in any state that has ever recorded a tornado should have to supply enough underground shelters for the maximum capacity of residents plus 10%. Great video.
So all the trailer parks in California? Because we have tornados too just not as big. That’s millions of people. Good luck. Just like all of us don’t have earthquake shelters….
@kingjsolomon they meant tornado alley or Dixie alley which has more trailer parks per capita over California and far more damaging long track tornadoes.
For anyone who don’t know and are watching the family go under the overpass, do not seek shelter under an overpass during a tornado warning. The family was lucky that the tornado missed them otherwise they would’ve been sucked out of the overpass as the winds would’ve become greater going under the overpass. For an example if you were to blow through a straw versus without one, the air moves faster in confined places such as these overpasses.
In the video the tornado is approaching the overpass coming up the Kansas Turnpike and it veers off the freeway before reaching the overpass. Thankfully it missed it would've been a fatal result for everyone under the overpass.
I was thinking about this the other night filling up my car at the gas station and freezing my ass off cause of the wind. The wind gusts were maybe 20mph max and it was definitely stronger under the canopy. Couldn’t imagine what 100mph+ winds would be like.
You are definitely filling a notch in TH-cam regarding tornado awareness. Please keep up the great work! Are you a meteorologist? You have a great way about your intelligent and heartfelt explanations. You are definitely the best thing since Pecos Hank!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I actually have an English degree funny enough 😂 just a huge weather fan and I adore research, so this is really a dream for me to do!
@@carlyannawx I've been a big fan of weather videos since 2014. I've never seen someone point out a 'dry line' blowing up a line of thunderstorms like that! Thank you, young lady. Please, keep up this fine work. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
I’m originally from Kentucky and live in Wichita now. Topeka is actually the capital of Kansas. They were hit by a prolific F5 in 1966 and I have a neighbor in Wichita that lived through the Topeka storm. His stories are amazing. I originally went to school for meteorology and have studied tornadoes for 30 years. I ended up getting a MS in safety, Security, and Emergency Management after visiting Greensburg, Kansas and Joplin, Mo. Their mitigation and recovery efforts really fascinated me. I am In KY right now with family. The storms here were incredible in December.
Please take into account that a lot of people, my family included, had no electricity because the storm had already demolished the power lines, so yes, while there was plenty of warning ON the news, a lot of us didn't hear that, either. We knew there was a storm moving through (ergo no power) but had no idea there was a tornado involved. My father and I were supposed to be up at the school to see a play. We were supposed to leave at 6:30, but delayed for five minutes because I couldn't find my shoes. If we'd left on time, we would have been in the middle of Andover Road, across from the mobile home park, right as the thing took out the church and started in on the mobile homes. Five minutes made the difference between life or death. Needless to say, we did not see the play that night. It took 4 hours to navigate back home and when we got there, half the roof was in the backyard. A friend of mine lived in Golden Spur, and had gone to the shelter with her son, but left him there and returned to her block to help her 92 year old neighbor get to safety when she didn't see him in the shelter. They were both killed. The city put in new sirens, and still blow them every single Monday at noon, unless the weather is bad (no need to mess with people's anxiety like that) 31 years since all of that and I still turn into a paranoid nervous wreck from mid-March to the end of May, especially when we're under any kind of weather advisory. Still have the nightmares, though thank god they are much more infrequent. Believe me, everyone here takes the warnings seriously.
Whoaaa so this was like what happened to some of those people in Alabama and Mississippi 2011 Super Outbreak where those nasty lines swept thru at 4am with half a dozen ef2-ef3 tornadoes and over a million people were out of power and some even got hit by Multiple ef3+ tornadoes. Wow, this sure brings new context to this tornado.
I was in oaklawn when this hit watched it take a house from its foundation i was at my gmas house and since she didn't have a shelter the only way to try and keep me safe she put me under a rocking chair lets just say I am still to this day scared to death of storms i don't do well when we have them hit at night
It always pisses me off to no end when there’s a tornado watch/warning and everyone around me just shrugs it off and calls me paranoid. Tornadoes are not to mess around with. They’re the most violent and destructive weather phenomena on the planet.
I keep hearing the same line about people having enough time to find shelter and I can’t lie, it really aggravates me. The 2011 Super Outbreak in Alabama was particularly dangerous/deadly due to the morning storms spawning multiple violent tornadoes that knocked out power for at least 1 million Alabamians, and by the time the main event rolled around at least 700,000 people were still without power.
A note on the potential damage from the nuclear warheads: it would have been minimal. The warheads sitting on the ground would not have been armed, and multiple steps would have to take to be taken to actually arm them, and getting flung around by a tornado would not do that. The only damage would be if the conventional explosives in them went off, but even that is unlikely (see other Broken Arrow events).
@@catchthewind8563 And that's the thing exactly: it would take multiple tiny malfunctions, exactly at the right time, and each highly unlikely in its own right. Which makes an accidental explosion highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. Also consider that there have been far worse incidents without warheads going off.
just an unimportant correction. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, and the capitol is Topeka. I was in Wichita when this tornado went thru and it was crazy and terrifying. I don't live there now because I got sick of dealing with the storms
90% of Kansas City is actually in Missouri. It's called Kansas City because it was founded on the Kansas side and later expanded into Missouri. Shout out to all the Kansans out there. I used to live in Topeka. I've done extensive research into the 1966 Topeka tornado that ripped through Washburn University and the City of Topeka.
The Andover-Wichita F5 made national news; I saw the footage in DC! I applaud your efforts, Carly! Incidentally, quite a bit of this footage was used in a National Geographic Special which aired on NBC during a prime time Saturday evening back around '95! It was 2hrs long with the first hour covering Tornadoes and the 2nd covering hurricanes. The end of the hurricane piece closed with an ominous warning regarding New Orleans and what would happen if a high Cat 5 storm taxed their outdated levies! About 10 years later Katrina hit and made history for all the wrong reasons! Many of those victims have yet to recover from that event! So again, I applaud the work you do regarding awareness before, during, and after devastating tornadoes! You help put a focus on the human element, which doesn't get the coverage it deserves! Thank you!
I love seeing you and more girls and women showing an interest in Tornadoes. I Grew up in Oklahoma and Texas so they were a way of life for me and I have been obsessed with them and weather since I was 4 or 5. Keep up the videos! They are very well put together and very informative. Some of the best on the internet.
As a kid, I was super scared, ANYTIME I heard about a tornado. So i made it a point to know where I lived, what towns were around me, and what direction each town was from me. If people would take the time to learn their area, then tornado warnings can be understood more clearly. Know where you live in a county, I know down to street level, so when I see a tornado warning for my county I look at the radar, where the tornado is, and where I am. I have my safe place fully prepared. It's not a basement, but it is under the house, at the foundation level. Helmets, water, flashlights, extra clothes and shoes.
I remember that night, that storm, the wicked F5, like it was yesterday. For a few years there was a blue car wadded into a ball & tossed in the top of a tree close to Terredyne County Club. A sobering reminder of the power. You can still see ravaged trees that survived to this day. As a Skywarn Spotter, I caught the 2022 Andover F3 that passed within about a mile of the F5. In an odd bit of irony, I work directly on the path the F5 took at Boeing/McConnell.
Lived through this. My great grandmother lived in Andover and watched from inside her closet the tornado take out houses across the street from her. I still live in Wichita, and I’m a mile away from Andover.
The sound of tornadoes are so frightening. I love how you often include things that were not in the documentaries/programs you used in making the videos. You make them more interesting.
Carly, your channel is one of the best weather-related TH-cam channels out there! I don't know if you're doing requests, but the 1990 Plainfield, Illinois tornado would be an interesting one for you to do a video about.
Tell Carly for me that sirens are very effective if sounded…too many idiots won’t sound them which makes me think there’s a need for a backup powered…COMPUTER…that when 70 mph or higher winds are detected…SIRENS SOUND…eliminating…HUMAN STUPIDITY!
I remember that footage of the family seeking shelter under the overpass as being propped up for years as what you SHOULD do in a tornado. I'm not sure when we figured out that was bad advice but basically that family was lucky to survive.
I think they began saying it was actually extremely dangerous to hide under an overpass after a mother was sucked out from under an overpass while trying to protect her son during the Moore EF5 tornado, because the overpass allows essentially a vacuum to form.
It was precisely because of that video that people assumed that overpasses were safe. The thing is: the overpass wasn't directly hit. Also, it may not have been a violent tornado (this one happened after the F5), but it was strong enough to sweep away cars (you can see a truck rotating at the base of the funnel shortly before the bridge was hit; mercifully the driver survived, though the poor man was [obviously] in a state of complete shock). If it had been a direct hit, anyone of those people could have been killed. Whenever I watch the video, I always feel so sorry for that poor girl: she was deeply traumatised. So, as harmful as that video was for creating the myth about overpasses, it is still nevertheless one of the greatest tornado footages in history.
This one was a giant churning monster, and that toll booth footage to this day is still some of the most iconic storm footage of all time. I still remember watching that as a kid on The Weather Channel in the mid-90s when they did their tornado documentaries. I feel like with the passage of time and events like Joplin, Moore, etc. we've seen the older monsters like this and Jarrell take a bit of a backseat so was glad to also find an Andover video here on your channel. Keep up the great work!
Some of the most violent rotation too. That Andover tornado was the first tornado filmed from almost every angle all 360 degrees around it. That Duke Evans video is the template, he set the standard for allowable commentary while filming an F5 tornado and IMHO it has yet to be matched LOL.
What is so surprising about the tornadoes that tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999 and 2013 is that both of these tornadoes went close to Tinker Air Force Base.
I drove from Phoenix to Minneapolis in May of 1991. I remember seeing huge piles of trees, timber, brick, etc. along I-35 in the Wichita area. It didn't dawn on me what I was seeing until later.
Carly Anna: excellent presentation! I had taken my kids to the PAWNEE PLAZA THEATERS, just a few miles north of the tornado path thru Haysville/S Wichita. The movie was “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE.” Inside the movie theater we could hear sirens faintly, and hail hitting the roof. When we came out of the theater, we realized what just happened. It took us 3 hours to travel 5 miles home, because traffic lights were dead and traffic was just at a standstill. Never will forget that day! Again, we’ll done!👍🙌👏👏🇺🇸
My house was the first hit by this storm. It was probably a quarter mile wide and multi vortex. We rode it out in the basement. I had a horse ranch just east of Clearwater. I ran outside as soon as it passed and saw it pick up my neighbor's combine and tractor trailer. The storm picked up my wife's car and sat it neatly in the bed of my truck. The weather guys had been warning of this since Wednesday. This was Friday. Crazy thing, two weeks to the day another tornado followed the same path headed right for my house. It was probably an F1. It vered into one single house destroyed it then jumped into a wheat field and dissolved.
That tornado to this day was one of the most terrifying I ever seen. That image of it so massive seemingly going direct to those houses was...just unreal.
I think the 1997 Jarrell tornado has this one beat. Especially considering the devastation it did. Basically no survivors. But yes Andover was very Intense.
@winnienguyen4420 what was scary about the Jerrall tornado is that it was almost like it was purposely and deliberately going slow to cause as much death and destruction as possible
I was 7 yrs old and 2 miles south of this at the time. My God I'll never forget the terror of this event as i watched it destroy my neighboring town or the SOUND. They just got hit again Friday in 2022. Thankfully no one died this time.
I just became aware of your channel a few days ago. The content is great. Thanks for your opening comments! I live in Kentucky and even though my community was not impacted by the tornado outbreak of Dec. 10-11. Places north, south and west of me was! Like you said people in all affected states still need help!
One of the tornadoes from that day that gets overlooked is the Red Rock tornado in Oklahoma. It stayed mostly in rural areas and was given an F4 rating, however, it debarked trees and removed pavement from the road. If you see videos of it it has similar updraft to Jarrell
If memory is correct red rock had wind of 286 mph or more a very violent underated tornado it was a solid f-5 and with debarked trees and pavement removed that usually indicates a very strong f-5 which it was it might have reached 300 mph at times a very violent tornado so your right another one that was similar and even stronger was the great Plainfield tornado of Aug 1990 being mainly in rural areas and a hp rainwrapped it was never filmed so it’s gets dismissed as to its intensity but with wind over 300 mph at times it was extremely violent like redrock
@@claytongillaspy8847 One well-built farmhouse was completely swept away in Red Rock, but it still got an F4 rating because the F5 winds (286 mph) was 300 to 500 feet above the ground, hence in the upper part of the funnel. That being said, if it had hit a town or more populated area, it would have been catastrophic.
I was 3 years old when this tornado hit near my hometown, a suburb of Wichita. Wichita is the most populous city in Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas side is actually smaller in population. People lump the Missouri side in, but that ain't Kansas 😀
Andover was recently hit again back on April 29th by an EF-3. Thankfully no deaths and only a few injuries this time. But boy did it make a mess. 🌪 Oddly enough, much of what got hit this time didn't exist back in 1991. Andover has more than tripled in population since then. More bizarrely yet, the mobile home park that was all but wiped out in 1991 was rebuilt, but now carries a different name.
That's a relief. The residents of Andover, Kansas no doubt learned their lesson from the tornado that devastated their city on April 26th, 1991 as well as from seeing what happened in Moore, Oklahoma on both May 3rd, 1999 and May 20th, 2013 along with Joplin, Missouri on May 22nd, 2011.
Today is May 4th for me. May the people who lost their lives Rest In Peace, the volunteers who gave food to the survivors were really good for doing that. I’m glad they’re all alive and survived a horrific event.
Great video again! Love the amount of home footage you include in this as well, it’s interesting to see these peoples perspectives on events 30 years. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Alot of people don't realize that the old f system, f5 had winds estimated at 265 and up. Where ef5 are 200 and above. So when it was a f5, it was the worse of the worse and ef5 could be a high end f4 under the old system.
The legacy F scale was grossly overestimated, whereas the current EF scale is closer to reality now that advanced field-deployable radar has shown actual wind speeds and more accurate knowledge of material strength and construction allow for better guesstimates of damage causation. Old F5s would be de-rated into EF3s or maybe EF4s today.
Good comments here, though I have even further clarification. Even though in the new system, the estimated windspeeds are lower, rating old tornadoes with the modern scale wouldn't change much, since it is based on the *intensity* of damage. We just now know that it takes lower winds to cause that same kind of damage. However, old storms may likely still be de-rated, as we have a lot more and a lot more accurate damage indicators now.
Been rewatching all your vids today! You do such great research and do such an amazing job on your content! Thanks for the hard work and information you put into your videos!
This is terrifying to me, I live in Massachusetts and we don’t really have tornadoes that often, when we do they aren’t that powerful, we do have waterspouts though, I’ve seen them first hand in my boat, I can’t imagine what an EF-5 would be like, thank you for educating us on these horrible storms, a lot of us have never been through anything like this.
My family and I were 25 miles away from this having dinner at a drive-in restaurant, listening to the play-by-play report of storm chasers from KFDI Radio. It was a beautiful sunny spring day. That is what is so interesting about supercells...the impact is generally isolated.
I am in Tennessee as well! I was scared to pieces a few Saturdays ago when they were calling for that outbreak..thank goodness it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. Stay warm! I'm sure you are aware but we have some snow coming 😆😆
@@carlyannawx oh goodness did I ever 🤣🤣 we got about 7 inches..the power went out for most of the day but just came back on woot woot 😆 this is our 3rd snow storm this season
Tennessee Girl too. The Nashville part of the March 3, 2020 tornado passed less than two miles from me down the street. I slept through it because my phone didn't go off. I now have a NOA radio too... and have spent most of the last two years learning about storms.
I remember this day like it was yesterday. As it went through McConnell AFB it gained so much strength. Probably because an AFB Is just miles and miles of flat concrete. There was nothing to impede on its journey. Brutal day as it rained paper over several towns in Missouri.
While the 91 F5 tornado will forever be remembered for it's impact and the incredible video footage taken, I would argue the most recent tornado in Andover, is something beyond astonishing to see because of the amazing high def video and the drone video taken. Even though it was only a EF3, it still shows the shocking destruction caused by a tornado that is a step above anything we've seen before.
I really appreciate your ability to find and piece together old footage of events and coverage involving these historic storms. Would it be possible to look into may 1985 Western PA and OH tornadoes?
This was so scary and sad, I don’t remember reading about this one. Thank you for posting these videos, they’re extremely informative not to mention great for us weather nerds. Hopefully they’ll help create more public awareness, too. 👍
I was east of Andover to celebrate my sister's birthday on the ranch. Two of the guests have medical careers. They were called in to their respective hospitals to handle the surge. I left the party and returned to my home in Valley Center, which has a basement. I did this well in advance of the tornado reaching Andover. The meteorologists provided very ample advanced warning. Many folks stayed at the party and observed the carnage from four miles away.
I ve seen clips of this tornado but did not know they all were of the Andover tornado. Thanks , you cover tornadoes completely and accurately. Keep em coming.
Carly mentions the F scale ratings for this tornado, which I think that everyone is aware was the Fujita Scale Ratings. Greensburg was the first Enhanced Fujita Scale Tornado because it was the first year that it had been implemented. There are some major differences between the two regarding wind speed estimats. All of the windspeeds below are for 3-second wind gusts from within a tornado F0 - 45 to 78mph EF0 - 65 to 85mph F1 - 79 - 117mph EF1 - 86 to 110mph F2 - 118 - 161mph EF2 - 111 to 135mph F3 - 162 - 209mph EF3 - 135 to 165mph F4 - 207 - 260mph EF4 - 166 to 200mph F5 - greater than 260mph EF5 - greater than 200mph The Greensburg Tornado would have been a F3 on the old scale and the Joplin, Tornado would have been an F4 on the old scale. One piece of information is that there has never been a confirmed windspeed measurement of wind speeds in a tornado. They are all estimated speeds. This tornado was far more intense than than the Greensburg tornado, but there are some significant differences. The size of the Greensburg tornado was a major factor plus the speed that it was moving so winds repeatedly hit the same structures over and over and over again and the structures were hit by flying debris over and over and over again. It engulfed the entire town. That may be why the damage was so severe in Greensburg, but if it has been the intensity of the Andover tornado, the death toll would likely have been higher in Greensburg, especially for people that didn't have basements or cellars. I believe that the best way to get the warnings in the timeliest manner is with a NOAA All Hazards Weather Alert Radio. When the National Weather Service issues a warning, the radio receives the warning at the same time the TV stations get the warning. They have battery back up, and in almost all situations the transmitter is not in the path of the tornado. If you get one with a battery backup, you will still get the warnings if the power goes out. Wireless devices are good as well, but if the tower nearest a town is struck and disabled by a tornado, you won't get the warnings that way. NOAA All Hazards Weather Alert Radio. They cost around $30 to $40 for the most desired features and some models have accessories for those who are hard of hearing like a flashing strobe. If a person is blind, and can still hear, the digital voice comes on automatically to give the information about the warning that will have a few minutes of delay from the TV stations that don't exist if you have the Weather Radio.
Ironically even though this was filmed in 1991 before the storm chasing craze and everyone having cameras/phones, I still consider it the best overall footage of a violent wedge tornado to this day... You got a non-rain wrapped nearly half a mile wide EF-5 in daytime with plainly visible rotation lurking behind a luxury suburban housing development which puts its scale into perfect perspective. There's something really unsettling and close to home about that. It's like "this thing isn't out in a farm field, it's right there where anyone can live destroying everything in its path with no mercy!"
Great video! Andover got hit again recently by an EF-3 tornado..not sure if this is coincidence or almost by fate..but this EF3 hit around the same date 30 years later..mother nature is mysterious..my father watched the 1991 tornado rip through McConnell from the roof of his father's repair shop..he said he remembered telling his friend that was working at the shop "That's going to hit Andover I guarantee it"..he said he's never seen anything so incredible and destructive at the same time
The fact that Andover got hit by an ef 3 in April of this year and they had an ef 5??? Wow and I was north of kc I was in the elms hotel at the time and when I heard about Andover getting hit by an ef 3 is insane
Ok, I’m not a meteorologist but I do have a tornado I really like talking about. April 25, 2022 At around 4pm there was very bad storms in Andover, Wichita, Augusta, and El Dorado. And the 4 main ingredients came together and made an f3 tornado, it swallowed up basically the whole town and some of El Dorado near the prison. It also made an enormous hole in the Andover Highschool, I do live in Andover and I can say this was very terrifying, even though I was not affected from this infamous tornado, doesn’t mean some people weren’t.
Ah, the original tornado that got me intrigued by tornadoes. This tornado was all over tv specials and videocassettes that I saw as a child. I can never forget this one.
It remains to this day one of the most filmed F5/EF5s of all time. I know I sound crazy, but I think that some of the footage, despite being over thirty years old, is actually better than some of the footage today. Also, in most videos of this tornado, there is no annoying screaming (as many storm chasers are sadly prone to do!).
My cousin's house was destroyed, and she got a broken arm and looked liked a beaten boxer from this storm. My high school buddy's life was one of those saved by the police in the Golden Spur; he lived there less than two weeks prior to the storm. I was working in the Town West Mall this day, and had no clue there was a storm, much less a tornado until the mall shut down, I went outside, and it was sunny. But if I looked south, it was the blackest sky I ever saw. Then Andover got hit again this past April.
Carly, your videos are So Well Done! Could you possibly do one on Joplin? Or maybe even the Mechanicville, NY tornado? Thank you!! I will keep watching!
I have never realized that so many tornado classic videos from when I was 7 years old came from this tornado. It was definitely one of the tornadoes that sparked my interest in tornadoes when I was about 7 years old. That overpass video is haunting since it spawned the myth that overpasses are safe places in tornadoes. I would even go as far to say that video was more dangerous then thee tornado itself. Horrible event but wow this tornado ended up in a lot of early 90s classic tornado videos. Great work!
My first tornado VHS tape. "The Enemy Wind, " a TWC production. All about Andover, and Warren Faidley. Still watch it every spring, now with my daughter. Your channel is awesome, much applause!
I lived in Oaklawn (low income housing south of Wichita) during this. It was an F2 when it hit my grandma's old trailer in Haysville, an F3 when it hit our house, and a multivortex F5 when it hit my grandma's new trailer in Andover. Also, the AFB learned so now when we're supposed to have tornadic weather, you can see them fly the planes out to other bases - once was to SD as a friend who was stationed there told me when they came in
When I was a young child, my family moved to Wichita from Ohio at the beginning of April 1991 and this tornado represents some of my first memories of life as well as our first experience with the severe weather of the Midwest plains. We were luckily spared from the path of the tornado but it was close and a genuinely traumatic experience. The following days we drove around the area near Andover and the McConnell AFB to survey the damage. I’ve never seen anything like it since, that tornado wrought such extreme damage. It was like an A-bomb was dropped on the area. 33 years later I still remember it vividly and I’m sure I won’t forget it as long as I live.
Cool! I have a bunch of family in Tennessee. I haven't been there myself though. My ass is broke but definitely remembering the people who went through tornadoes recently. Hang in there, my fellow Americans!
I just found this channel and subscribed immediately. Very impressed with your content and knowledge. I know they've been done to death, but any plans to do the Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornadoes?
Thank you so much Dave! Yes absolutely, both of those are on the list! I’m actually going Hackleburg for this coming week and those two will be soon after!
Wow listening to the audio and looking at the storm motion in these videos compared to the most recent EF-3 really puts into perspective how much more insane an F5/EF5 is by comparison. And an EF3 is nothing to take lightly.
Well done! I really enjoy your documentaries. Can you please do the 1987 Edmonton Alberta Canada F4? I know it would probably go to the bottom of you list of tornadoes to do, but I’d love to see you break down the meteorology ect. As that’s where I am from.
Hiii, I just stumbled on your page!!! I like what you do, great job!!!! So we just had another Andover tornado and I was wondering if you’d think about making a video comparing the two???? Paths and relativity. Just an idea, keep up the good work!!!
Very well done, with a lot of footage of both the tornado and the aftermath I have never seen before. One quick bit of constructive criticism-the capital of Kansas is actually Topeka, not Kansas City
this tornado overshadowed the more violent Red Rock one from the same system that, at the time, had the highest winds measured at 284 mph. It didn't hit structures at that wind intensity but ripped a freeway apart of all asphalt and threw cows hundreds of yards.
The Duke Evans video taken from the country club was some of the clearest and longest of a violent tornado taken to that point. The details in it clearly show the strength with large debris being lofted high and fast, then being thrown long distances. Even with the far better cameras of today, few videos show so much destruction so well for so long. The Air Force now watches for high-potential storms like this and has in place plans to move aircraft out of the way and to secure explosives (including nuclear) safely before the storms can hit. The NWS has also standardized the use of "PDS" warnings where applicable too, and all because of this one epic tornado.
Other commenters have already spoken up, but I'm gonna add my voice to the chorus about the nuclear warheads: you don't need to fear them going off. Our military isn't so inept as to design nuclear weapons that could go off _that_ easily. There are multiple interlocks in the way between an armed warhead and a detonation, and that's if it's _armed._ The ones staged at that AFB were undoubtedly _unarmed_, and the worst that could have happened is the conventional explosives in the warheads detonating, which would have just resulted in an ordinary bomb explosion, which is unlikely because very stable explosives are used in those things.
Hello Carley! I like these tornado videos you do, please keep doing these! I have a suggestion for you, Carley. Could you a story about the tornado out break, from the Fridley, Brooklyn Center tornados in 1965?
As someone who currently lives in wichita its so strange for me the learn about events that happened so close to where i live now in fact the mcconnell airfirce based is only about a 15min drive from where im currently sitting while leaving this comment.
I wish you could do an episode about the 3 hurricanes that affected Brevard county Florida in 2004. I know you mostly do tornadoes, would just like to see that in your format.
The footage at 11:44 is where the whole girders = safety began. As you know, it took years to disavow that very dangerous myth. They were all very lucky that the tornado just sideswiped them. I just discovered your channel and it's exceptional. Thank you!
I’m curious as to why underground tornado shelters can’t be built into the slopes of underpasses. I know that underpasses themselves aren’t safe places to be, but for motorists caught on the road there are very few other options. Seeing that people still continue to try their luck in surviving in underpasses, then surely there is a way to construct underground shelters for just such emergencies?
The fact that the trailer park even had a shelter is astounding. It should be a federal requirement that any mobile home type community in any state that has ever recorded a tornado should have to supply enough underground shelters for the maximum capacity of residents plus 10%.
Great video.
Absolutely. Especially because trailer owners are paying RENT to the trailer
Park!! They need to make a communal shelter
So all the trailer parks in California? Because we have tornados too just not as big. That’s millions of people. Good luck. Just like all of us don’t have earthquake shelters….
@@kingjsolomon yup.
@kingjsolomon they meant tornado alley or Dixie alley which has more trailer parks per capita over California and far more damaging long track tornadoes.
Things were a lot different back in 1991!!
For anyone who don’t know and are watching the family go under the overpass, do not seek shelter under an overpass during a tornado warning. The family was lucky that the tornado missed them otherwise they would’ve been sucked out of the overpass as the winds would’ve become greater going under the overpass. For an example if you were to blow through a straw versus without one, the air moves faster in confined places such as these overpasses.
Not to mention the tornado could cause the overpass to collapse right on top of you and sweep you away.
In the video the tornado is approaching the overpass coming up the Kansas Turnpike and it veers off the freeway before reaching the overpass. Thankfully it missed it would've been a fatal result for everyone under the overpass.
This myth was ultimately dispelled by the May 3rd, 1999 Moore, Oklahoma F-5 tornado.
I was thinking about this the other night filling up my car at the gas station and freezing my ass off cause of the wind. The wind gusts were maybe 20mph max and it was definitely stronger under the canopy. Couldn’t imagine what 100mph+ winds would be like.
You are definitely filling a notch in TH-cam regarding tornado awareness. Please keep up the great work! Are you a meteorologist? You have a great way about your intelligent and heartfelt explanations. You are definitely the best thing since Pecos Hank!
Thank you so much for the kind words. I actually have an English degree funny enough 😂 just a huge weather fan and I adore research, so this is really a dream for me to do!
@@carlyannawx I was an English major as well and also found my way into an amateur interest in tornadoes/severe weather. :)
@@carlyannawx I've been a big fan of weather videos since 2014. I've never seen someone point out a 'dry line' blowing up a line of thunderstorms like that!
Thank you, young lady. Please, keep up this fine work. 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
@@carlyannawx you are a very welcome brand new face for online tornado awareness! You and Blaze have a new lifelong fan in me 😎 😺
Topeka is capitol of Kansas. Interestingly enough in 1966 Topeka, Kansas was hit by an F-5 tornado.
Yes, I thought those two things as well.
Don't forget, she's from Tennessee and not Kansas. Also, Topeka is located somewhere near if not, directly in the dead center of the state of Kansas.
@@scottdakadescot4127It's actually in the northeast part of the state only about an hour west of the Kansas City metro.
Coincidentally, Bill Kurtis anchored the coverage of the 66 Topeka tornado, as well as the Plainfield, IL tornado, covered on this channel as well
I was just thinking isn’t Topeka the states capital, Kansas City just didn’t sound right
Those cops undoubtedly saved so many lives by going into the neighborhoods to warn people, especially at the trailer park!
Amazing! The effort made was great. (I just watched Carly Anna's unwarned tornado video).
I’m originally from Kentucky and live in Wichita now. Topeka is actually the capital of Kansas. They were hit by a prolific F5 in 1966 and I have a neighbor in Wichita that lived through the Topeka storm. His stories are amazing. I originally went to school for meteorology and have studied tornadoes for 30 years. I ended up getting a MS in safety, Security, and Emergency Management after visiting Greensburg, Kansas and Joplin, Mo. Their mitigation and recovery efforts really fascinated me. I am In KY right now with family. The storms here were incredible in December.
Can’t avoid tornados huh
Please take into account that a lot of people, my family included, had no electricity because the storm had already demolished the power lines, so yes, while there was plenty of warning ON the news, a lot of us didn't hear that, either. We knew there was a storm moving through (ergo no power) but had no idea there was a tornado involved. My father and I were supposed to be up at the school to see a play. We were supposed to leave at 6:30, but delayed for five minutes because I couldn't find my shoes. If we'd left on time, we would have been in the middle of Andover Road, across from the mobile home park, right as the thing took out the church and started in on the mobile homes. Five minutes made the difference between life or death. Needless to say, we did not see the play that night. It took 4 hours to navigate back home and when we got there, half the roof was in the backyard.
A friend of mine lived in Golden Spur, and had gone to the shelter with her son, but left him there and returned to her block to help her 92 year old neighbor get to safety when she didn't see him in the shelter. They were both killed.
The city put in new sirens, and still blow them every single Monday at noon, unless the weather is bad (no need to mess with people's anxiety like that) 31 years since all of that and I still turn into a paranoid nervous wreck from mid-March to the end of May, especially when we're under any kind of weather advisory. Still have the nightmares, though thank god they are much more infrequent. Believe me, everyone here takes the warnings seriously.
how did you handle the storm that passed through last month?
Whoaaa so this was like what happened to some of those people in Alabama and Mississippi 2011 Super Outbreak where those nasty lines swept thru at 4am with half a dozen ef2-ef3 tornadoes and over a million people were out of power and some even got hit by Multiple ef3+ tornadoes. Wow, this sure brings new context to this tornado.
I was in oaklawn when this hit watched it take a house from its foundation i was at my gmas house and since she didn't have a shelter the only way to try and keep me safe she put me under a rocking chair lets just say I am still to this day scared to death of storms i don't do well when we have them hit at night
It always pisses me off to no end when there’s a tornado watch/warning and everyone around me just shrugs it off and calls me paranoid. Tornadoes are not to mess around with. They’re the most violent and destructive weather phenomena on the planet.
I keep hearing the same line about people having enough time to find shelter and I can’t lie, it really aggravates me. The 2011 Super Outbreak in Alabama was particularly dangerous/deadly due to the morning storms spawning multiple violent tornadoes that knocked out power for at least 1 million Alabamians, and by the time the main event rolled around at least 700,000 people were still without power.
A note on the potential damage from the nuclear warheads: it would have been minimal. The warheads sitting on the ground would not have been armed, and multiple steps would have to take to be taken to actually arm them, and getting flung around by a tornado would not do that. The only damage would be if the conventional explosives in them went off, but even that is unlikely (see other Broken Arrow events).
Yeah but all it takes is one tiny malfunction of those fail safes, and BOOOOOM!
@@catchthewind8563 And that's the thing exactly: it would take multiple tiny malfunctions, exactly at the right time, and each highly unlikely in its own right. Which makes an accidental explosion highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. Also consider that there have been far worse incidents without warheads going off.
Broke arrow is a good movie
Broken
They'd have to be fueled . As you said, sitting on open ground, even on alert, they wouldn't be fueled
just an unimportant correction. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, and the capitol is Topeka. I was in Wichita when this tornado went thru and it was crazy and terrifying. I don't live there now because I got sick of dealing with the storms
Thanks for that. I was just considering mentioning that.
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The second largest city in Kansas is Overland Park.
@@baileyostrom2972 thanks for that added bit of information.
Shut up
90% of Kansas City is actually in Missouri. It's called Kansas City because it was founded on the Kansas side and later expanded into Missouri. Shout out to all the Kansans out there. I used to live in Topeka. I've done extensive research into the 1966 Topeka tornado that ripped through Washburn University and the City of Topeka.
The Andover-Wichita F5 made national news; I saw the footage in DC! I applaud your efforts, Carly! Incidentally, quite a bit of this footage was used in a National Geographic Special which aired on NBC during a prime time Saturday evening back around '95! It was 2hrs long with the first hour covering Tornadoes and the 2nd covering hurricanes. The end of the hurricane piece closed with an ominous warning regarding New Orleans and what would happen if a high Cat 5 storm taxed their outdated levies! About 10 years later Katrina hit and made history for all the wrong reasons! Many of those victims have yet to recover from that event! So again, I applaud the work you do regarding awareness before, during, and after devastating tornadoes! You help put a focus on the human element, which doesn't get the coverage it deserves! Thank you!
I love seeing you and more girls and women showing an interest in Tornadoes. I Grew up in Oklahoma and Texas so they were a way of life for me and I have been obsessed with them and weather since I was 4 or 5. Keep up the videos! They are very well put together and very informative. Some of the best on the internet.
Agreed! Check out mateotech tornado case study another female meteorologist!
I was a firefighter in Andover in 1991. This was a very accurate description on that day. Horrifying
As a kid, I was super scared, ANYTIME I heard about a tornado. So i made it a point to know where I lived, what towns were around me, and what direction each town was from me. If people would take the time to learn their area, then tornado warnings can be understood more clearly. Know where you live in a county, I know down to street level, so when I see a tornado warning for my county I look at the radar, where the tornado is, and where I am. I have my safe place fully prepared. It's not a basement, but it is under the house, at the foundation level. Helmets, water, flashlights, extra clothes and shoes.
Great plan! I did something similar....but added a bullet-prrof vest to the "storm bag".
I remember that night, that storm, the wicked F5, like it was yesterday. For a few years there was a blue car wadded into a ball & tossed in the top of a tree close to Terredyne County Club. A sobering reminder of the power. You can still see ravaged trees that survived to this day. As a Skywarn Spotter, I caught the 2022 Andover F3 that passed within about a mile of the F5. In an odd bit of irony, I work directly on the path the F5 took at Boeing/McConnell.
Lived through this. My great grandmother lived in Andover and watched from inside her closet the tornado take out houses across the street from her. I still live in Wichita, and I’m a mile away from Andover.
This tornado is the one that always comes to mind first when I think of tornadoes, the footage is just so surreal to me
The sound of tornadoes are so frightening. I love how you often include things that were not in the documentaries/programs you used in making the videos. You make them more interesting.
Carly, your channel is one of the best weather-related TH-cam channels out there! I don't know if you're doing requests, but the 1990 Plainfield, Illinois tornado would be an interesting one for you to do a video about.
Tell Carly for me that sirens are very effective if sounded…too many idiots won’t sound them which makes me think there’s a need for a backup powered…COMPUTER…that when 70 mph or higher winds are detected…SIRENS SOUND…eliminating…HUMAN STUPIDITY!
I remember that footage of the family seeking shelter under the overpass as being propped up for years as what you SHOULD do in a tornado. I'm not sure when we figured out that was bad advice but basically that family was lucky to survive.
I think they began saying it was actually extremely dangerous to hide under an overpass after a mother was sucked out from under an overpass while trying to protect her son during the Moore EF5 tornado, because the overpass allows essentially a vacuum to form.
It was precisely because of that video that people assumed that overpasses were safe. The thing is: the overpass wasn't directly hit. Also, it may not have been a violent tornado (this one happened after the F5), but it was strong enough to sweep away cars (you can see a truck rotating at the base of the funnel shortly before the bridge was hit; mercifully the driver survived, though the poor man was [obviously] in a state of complete shock). If it had been a direct hit, anyone of those people could have been killed.
Whenever I watch the video, I always feel so sorry for that poor girl: she was deeply traumatised.
So, as harmful as that video was for creating the myth about overpasses, it is still nevertheless one of the greatest tornado footages in history.
This one was a giant churning monster, and that toll booth footage to this day is still some of the most iconic storm footage of all time. I still remember watching that as a kid on The Weather Channel in the mid-90s when they did their tornado documentaries. I feel like with the passage of time and events like Joplin, Moore, etc. we've seen the older monsters like this and Jarrell take a bit of a backseat so was glad to also find an Andover video here on your channel. Keep up the great work!
It is some of the most impressive tornado footage I've ever seen, this 1991 outbreak especially the tornado that went through the Air Force Base.
Some of the most violent rotation too. That Andover tornado was the first tornado filmed from almost every angle all 360 degrees around it. That Duke Evans video is the template, he set the standard for allowable commentary while filming an F5 tornado and IMHO it has yet to be matched LOL.
What is so surprising about the tornadoes that tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999 and 2013 is that both of these tornadoes went close to Tinker Air Force Base.
Amazing how you can see the tornado go from a single funnel to a multi-vortex tornado as it went through McConnell AFB.
Okay im fully addicted to these bite-sized videos! Please give us MORE!
I drove from Phoenix to Minneapolis in May of 1991. I remember seeing huge piles of trees, timber, brick, etc. along I-35 in the Wichita area. It didn't dawn on me what I was seeing until later.
Carly Anna: excellent presentation! I had taken my kids to the PAWNEE PLAZA THEATERS, just a few miles north of the tornado path thru Haysville/S Wichita. The movie was “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE.” Inside the movie theater we could hear sirens faintly, and hail hitting the roof. When we came out of the theater, we realized what just happened. It took us 3 hours to travel 5 miles home, because traffic lights were dead and traffic was just at a standstill. Never will forget that day! Again, we’ll done!👍🙌👏👏🇺🇸
My house was the first hit by this storm. It was probably a quarter mile wide and multi vortex. We rode it out in the basement. I had a horse ranch just east of Clearwater. I ran outside as soon as it passed and saw it pick up my neighbor's combine and tractor trailer. The storm picked up my wife's car and sat it neatly in the bed of my truck. The weather guys had been warning of this since Wednesday. This was Friday. Crazy thing, two weeks to the day another tornado followed the same path headed right for my house. It was probably an F1. It vered into one single house destroyed it then jumped into a wheat field and dissolved.
That tornado to this day was one of the most terrifying I ever seen. That image of it so massive seemingly going direct to those houses was...just unreal.
I think the 1997 Jarrell tornado has this one beat. Especially considering the devastation it did. Basically no survivors. But yes Andover was very Intense.
@winnienguyen4420 what was scary about the Jerrall tornado is that it was almost like it was purposely and deliberately going slow to cause as much death and destruction as possible
I was 7 yrs old and 2 miles south of this at the time. My God I'll never forget the terror of this event as i watched it destroy my neighboring town or the SOUND. They just got hit again Friday in 2022. Thankfully no one died this time.
No one died in the 2022 andover ks tornado. There is some amazing footage of this. Check it out.
I just became aware of your channel a few days ago. The content is great. Thanks for your opening comments! I live in Kentucky and even though my community was not impacted by the tornado outbreak of Dec. 10-11. Places north, south and west of me was! Like you said people in all affected states still need help!
Topeka ks is our capital. I was 2 when this happened and I still have some memories of it to this day 30 years later
One of the tornadoes from that day that gets overlooked is the Red Rock tornado in Oklahoma. It stayed mostly in rural areas and was given an F4 rating, however, it debarked trees and removed pavement from the road.
If you see videos of it it has similar updraft to Jarrell
If memory is correct red rock had wind of 286 mph or more a very violent underated tornado it was a solid f-5 and with debarked trees and pavement removed that usually indicates a very strong f-5 which it was it might have reached 300 mph at times a very violent tornado so your right another one that was similar and even stronger was the great Plainfield tornado of Aug 1990 being mainly in rural areas and a hp rainwrapped it was never filmed so it’s gets dismissed as to its intensity but with wind over 300 mph at times it was extremely violent like redrock
@@claytongillaspy8847 One well-built farmhouse was completely swept away in Red Rock, but it still got an F4 rating because the F5 winds (286 mph) was 300 to 500 feet above the ground, hence in the upper part of the funnel.
That being said, if it had hit a town or more populated area, it would have been catastrophic.
I was 3 years old when this tornado hit near my hometown, a suburb of Wichita.
Wichita is the most populous city in Kansas. The Kansas City, Kansas side is actually smaller in population. People lump the Missouri side in, but that ain't Kansas 😀
Andover was recently hit again back on April 29th by an EF-3. Thankfully no deaths and only a few injuries this time. But boy did it make a mess.
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Oddly enough, much of what got hit this time didn't exist back in 1991. Andover has more than tripled in population since then. More bizarrely yet, the mobile home park that was all but wiped out in 1991 was rebuilt, but now carries a different name.
That's a relief. The residents of Andover, Kansas no doubt learned their lesson from the tornado that devastated their city on April 26th, 1991 as well as from seeing what happened in Moore, Oklahoma on both May 3rd, 1999 and May 20th, 2013 along with Joplin, Missouri on May 22nd, 2011.
@@michaellovely6601 I'm not sure how "having tornado sirens that actually work" counts as a lesson.
....How is that bizarre? There are mobile home parks all over the place. There are more than 100 of them in Wichita.
Today is May 4th for me. May the people who lost their lives Rest In Peace, the volunteers who gave food to the survivors were really good for doing that. I’m glad they’re all alive and survived a horrific event.
Great video again! Love the amount of home footage you include in this as well, it’s interesting to see these peoples perspectives on events 30 years. Keep doing what you’re doing!
Alot of people don't realize that the old f system, f5 had winds estimated at 265 and up. Where ef5 are 200 and above. So when it was a f5, it was the worse of the worse and ef5 could be a high end f4 under the old system.
I think about this a lot. The systems are so wildly different and it makes you wonder how some of the old F5s would be rated today!
The legacy F scale was grossly overestimated, whereas the current EF scale is closer to reality now that advanced field-deployable radar has shown actual wind speeds and more accurate knowledge of material strength and construction allow for better guesstimates of damage causation.
Old F5s would be de-rated into EF3s or maybe EF4s today.
Good comments here, though I have even further clarification. Even though in the new system, the estimated windspeeds are lower, rating old tornadoes with the modern scale wouldn't change much, since it is based on the *intensity* of damage. We just now know that it takes lower winds to cause that same kind of damage. However, old storms may likely still be de-rated, as we have a lot more and a lot more accurate damage indicators now.
@@SIGINT007 what???
@@millhousemillard2140 what yourself? I didn’t stutter.
Been rewatching all your vids today! You do such great research and do such an amazing job on your content! Thanks for the hard work and information you put into your videos!
This is terrifying to me, I live in Massachusetts and we don’t really have tornadoes that often, when we do they aren’t that powerful, we do have waterspouts though, I’ve seen them first hand in my boat, I can’t imagine what an EF-5 would be like, thank you for educating us on these horrible storms, a lot of us have never been through anything like this.
Carly, your videos are truly amazing. Please keep up the great work.
My family and I were 25 miles away from this having dinner at a drive-in restaurant, listening to the play-by-play report of storm chasers from KFDI Radio. It was a beautiful sunny spring day. That is what is so interesting about supercells...the impact is generally isolated.
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I love tofu fall asleep to your videos. Your voice and knowledge is incredibly soothing.
same here. superb videos.
I am in Tennessee as well! I was scared to pieces a few Saturdays ago when they were calling for that outbreak..thank goodness it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. Stay warm! I'm sure you are aware but we have some snow coming 😆😆
We got snow here today! I hope you got to see some too, it had been a while and it was nice☺️
@@carlyannawx oh goodness did I ever 🤣🤣 we got about 7 inches..the power went out for most of the day but just came back on woot woot 😆 this is our 3rd snow storm this season
Tennessee Girl too. The Nashville part of the March 3, 2020 tornado passed less than two miles from me down the street. I slept through it because my phone didn't go off. I now have a NOA radio too... and have spent most of the last two years learning about storms.
I remember this day like it was yesterday. As it went through McConnell AFB it gained so much strength. Probably because an AFB Is just miles and miles of flat concrete. There was nothing to impede on its journey. Brutal day as it rained paper over several towns in Missouri.
Including Joplin? 😰
While the 91 F5 tornado will forever be remembered for it's impact and the incredible video footage taken, I would argue the most recent tornado in Andover, is something beyond astonishing to see because of the amazing high def video and the drone video taken. Even though it was only a EF3, it still shows the shocking destruction caused by a tornado that is a step above anything we've seen before.
Love the vids. Very entertaining and your implementation of actual footage and editing is excellent. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for that- it means a lot! I’ll do my best to make enjoyable stuff in the future 🤠
Good afternoon keep it up my love you’re doing a great job on videos and your thoughts on what’s going on
I really appreciate your ability to find and piece together old footage of events and coverage involving these historic storms. Would it be possible to look into may 1985 Western PA and OH tornadoes?
Second this!!
Great job on your content. You are improving leaps and bounds. Congratulations
love your work lady, keep it up!!
This was so scary and sad, I don’t remember reading about this one. Thank you for posting these videos, they’re extremely informative not to mention great for us weather nerds. Hopefully they’ll help create more public awareness, too. 👍
Topeka is the capitol of Kansas not Kansas city
And Wichita is the biggest city by far.
Righttttt
Ahhh! thanks for letting me know! 😂😵💫
You're good sis love the videos you put out
@@Crusader1815 not if you’re counting metropolitan areas.
I was east of Andover to celebrate my sister's birthday on the ranch. Two of the guests have medical careers. They were called in to their respective hospitals to handle the surge. I left the party and returned to my home in Valley Center, which has a basement. I did this well in advance of the tornado reaching Andover. The meteorologists provided very ample advanced warning. Many folks stayed at the party and observed the carnage from four miles away.
I ve seen clips of this tornado but did not know they all were of the Andover tornado. Thanks , you cover tornadoes completely and accurately. Keep em coming.
That footage from McConnell AFB still is one of the most incredible footage of a tornado even today.
Carly mentions the F scale ratings for this tornado, which I think that everyone is aware was the Fujita Scale Ratings. Greensburg was the first Enhanced Fujita Scale Tornado because it was the first year that it had been implemented. There are some major differences between the two regarding wind speed estimats.
All of the windspeeds below are for 3-second wind gusts from within a tornado
F0 - 45 to 78mph EF0 - 65 to 85mph
F1 - 79 - 117mph EF1 - 86 to 110mph
F2 - 118 - 161mph EF2 - 111 to 135mph
F3 - 162 - 209mph EF3 - 135 to 165mph
F4 - 207 - 260mph EF4 - 166 to 200mph
F5 - greater than 260mph EF5 - greater than 200mph
The Greensburg Tornado would have been a F3 on the old scale and the Joplin, Tornado would have been an F4 on the old scale.
One piece of information is that there has never been a confirmed windspeed measurement of wind speeds in a tornado. They are all estimated speeds.
This tornado was far more intense than than the Greensburg tornado, but there are some significant differences. The size of the Greensburg tornado was a major factor plus the speed that it was moving so winds repeatedly hit the same structures over and over and over again and the structures were hit by flying debris over and over and over again. It engulfed the entire town. That may be why the damage was so severe in Greensburg, but if it has been the intensity of the Andover tornado, the death toll would likely have been higher in Greensburg, especially for people that didn't have basements or cellars.
I believe that the best way to get the warnings in the timeliest manner is with a NOAA All Hazards Weather Alert Radio. When the National Weather Service issues a warning, the radio receives the warning at the same time the TV stations get the warning. They have battery back up, and in almost all situations the transmitter is not in the path of the tornado. If you get one with a battery backup, you will still get the warnings if the power goes out. Wireless devices are good as well, but if the tower nearest a town is struck and disabled by a tornado, you won't get the warnings that way. NOAA All Hazards Weather Alert Radio. They cost around $30 to $40 for the most desired features and some models have accessories for those who are hard of hearing like a flashing strobe. If a person is blind, and can still hear, the digital voice comes on automatically to give the information about the warning that will have a few minutes of delay from the TV stations that don't exist if you have the Weather Radio.
Everytime I watch the beginning of one of your videos, I feel like I'm about to watch an ASMR video. You have a very calming voice.
Very good video. Keep up the good work.
Some of the most dramatic tornado footage there is. Nice work Carly!
great job, looking forward to watching your channel grow
Thank you so much Dennis, appreciate the support! Next is Tri-State tornado:D
@@carlyannawx looking forward to it
Ironically even though this was filmed in 1991 before the storm chasing craze and everyone having cameras/phones, I still consider it the best overall footage of a violent wedge tornado to this day... You got a non-rain wrapped nearly half a mile wide EF-5 in daytime with plainly visible rotation lurking behind a luxury suburban housing development which puts its scale into perfect perspective. There's something really unsettling and close to home about that. It's like "this thing isn't out in a farm field, it's right there where anyone can live destroying everything in its path with no mercy!"
Great video! Andover got hit again recently by an EF-3 tornado..not sure if this is coincidence or almost by fate..but this EF3 hit around the same date 30 years later..mother nature is mysterious..my father watched the 1991 tornado rip through McConnell from the roof of his father's repair shop..he said he remembered telling his friend that was working at the shop "That's going to hit Andover I guarantee it"..he said he's never seen anything so incredible and destructive at the same time
The fact that Andover got hit by an ef 3 in April of this year and they had an ef 5??? Wow and I was north of kc I was in the elms hotel at the time and when I heard about Andover getting hit by an ef 3 is insane
Ok, I’m not a meteorologist but I do have a tornado I really like talking about.
April 25, 2022
At around 4pm there was very bad storms in Andover, Wichita, Augusta, and El Dorado. And the 4 main ingredients came together and made an f3 tornado, it swallowed up basically the whole town and some of El Dorado near the prison. It also made an enormous hole in the Andover Highschool, I do live in Andover and I can say this was very terrifying, even though I was not affected from this infamous tornado, doesn’t mean some people weren’t.
Ah, the original tornado that got me intrigued by tornadoes. This tornado was all over tv specials and videocassettes that I saw as a child. I can never forget this one.
It remains to this day one of the most filmed F5/EF5s of all time. I know I sound crazy, but I think that some of the footage, despite being over thirty years old, is actually better than some of the footage today. Also, in most videos of this tornado, there is no annoying screaming (as many storm chasers are sadly prone to do!).
My cousin's house was destroyed, and she got a broken arm and looked liked a beaten boxer from this storm.
My high school buddy's life was one of those saved by the police in the Golden Spur; he lived there less than two weeks prior to the storm.
I was working in the Town West Mall this day, and had no clue there was a storm, much less a tornado until the mall shut down, I went outside, and it was sunny. But if I looked south, it was the blackest sky I ever saw.
Then Andover got hit again this past April.
Carly, your videos are So Well Done!
Could you possibly do one on Joplin? Or maybe even the Mechanicville, NY tornado?
Thank you!! I will keep watching!
I have never realized that so many tornado classic videos from when I was 7 years old came from this tornado. It was definitely one of the tornadoes that sparked my interest in tornadoes when I was about 7 years old. That overpass video is haunting since it spawned the myth that overpasses are safe places in tornadoes. I would even go as far to say that video was more dangerous then thee tornado itself. Horrible event but wow this tornado ended up in a lot of early 90s classic tornado videos. Great work!
My first tornado VHS tape. "The Enemy Wind, " a TWC production. All about Andover, and Warren Faidley. Still watch it every spring, now with my daughter. Your channel is awesome, much applause!
I lived in Oaklawn (low income housing south of Wichita) during this. It was an F2 when it hit my grandma's old trailer in Haysville, an F3 when it hit our house, and a multivortex F5 when it hit my grandma's new trailer in Andover.
Also, the AFB learned so now when we're supposed to have tornadic weather, you can see them fly the planes out to other bases - once was to SD as a friend who was stationed there told me when they came in
I absolutely love your channel you are bringing back a lot of tornadoes that I remember watching on TLC and Discovery Channel documentary
When I was a young child, my family moved to Wichita from Ohio at the beginning of April 1991 and this tornado represents some of my first memories of life as well as our first experience with the severe weather of the Midwest plains. We were luckily spared from the path of the tornado but it was close and a genuinely traumatic experience.
The following days we drove around the area near Andover and the McConnell AFB to survey the damage. I’ve never seen anything like it since, that tornado wrought such extreme damage. It was like an A-bomb was dropped on the area. 33 years later I still remember it vividly and I’m sure I won’t forget it as long as I live.
Cool! I have a bunch of family in Tennessee. I haven't been there myself though. My ass is broke but definitely remembering the people who went through tornadoes recently. Hang in there, my fellow Americans!
I love the old-time radar displays where the sweeping line going around the radius actually updated the image.
I just found this channel and subscribed immediately. Very impressed with your content and knowledge. I know they've been done to death, but any plans to do the Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornadoes?
Thank you so much Dave! Yes absolutely, both of those are on the list! I’m actually going Hackleburg for this coming week and those two will be soon after!
Yeah, we really don't need any more videos on those two particular tornados. I'd much rather see content covering lesser-known events.
You are MY FAVORITE TORNADO WEATHER LADY!!! You do GREAT WORK!!..
I've seen a ton of tornado videos, but don't know that I've EVER seen a tornado with such angry rotation as this one.
In 1991 the news cycle didn’t move near as fast so this stung for ALONG time. TjNk you for covering!
Wow listening to the audio and looking at the storm motion in these videos compared to the most recent EF-3 really puts into perspective how much more insane an F5/EF5 is by comparison. And an EF3 is nothing to take lightly.
You can see the tornado get wider as it moved through McConnell AFB. Thank goodness it missed the bombers.
Well done! I really enjoy your documentaries. Can you please do the 1987 Edmonton Alberta Canada F4? I know it would probably go to the bottom of you list of tornadoes to do, but I’d love to see you break down the meteorology ect. As that’s where I am from.
That’d be epic
Hiii, I just stumbled on your page!!! I like what you do, great job!!!! So we just had another Andover tornado and I was wondering if you’d think about making a video comparing the two???? Paths and relativity. Just an idea, keep up the good work!!!
The andover tornado was the last F5 in Kansas til the greensburg EF5 tornado in may 2007.
Very well done, with a lot of footage of both the tornado and the aftermath I have never seen before.
One quick bit of constructive criticism-the capital of Kansas is actually Topeka, not Kansas City
LOL I had a few people let me know, thank you so much! I will definitely be talking about Kansas in the future so I appreciate it ☺️
@@carlyannawx it really warms my heart that you took that so well! Thank you so much
this tornado overshadowed the more violent Red Rock one from the same system that, at the time, had the highest winds measured at 284 mph. It didn't hit structures at that wind intensity but ripped a freeway apart of all asphalt and threw cows hundreds of yards.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos & you did an amazing job on getting footage from this
The Duke Evans video taken from the country club was some of the clearest and longest of a violent tornado taken to that point. The details in it clearly show the strength with large debris being lofted high and fast, then being thrown long distances. Even with the far better cameras of today, few videos show so much destruction so well for so long. The Air Force now watches for high-potential storms like this and has in place plans to move aircraft out of the way and to secure explosives (including nuclear) safely before the storms can hit. The NWS has also standardized the use of "PDS" warnings where applicable too, and all because of this one epic tornado.
Other commenters have already spoken up, but I'm gonna add my voice to the chorus about the nuclear warheads: you don't need to fear them going off. Our military isn't so inept as to design nuclear weapons that could go off _that_ easily. There are multiple interlocks in the way between an armed warhead and a detonation, and that's if it's _armed._ The ones staged at that AFB were undoubtedly _unarmed_, and the worst that could have happened is the conventional explosives in the warheads detonating, which would have just resulted in an ordinary bomb explosion, which is unlikely because very stable explosives are used in those things.
Love the early 90s old school weather channel coverage.
Hello Carley! I like these tornado videos you do, please keep doing these! I have a suggestion for you, Carley. Could you a story about the tornado out break, from the Fridley, Brooklyn Center tornados in 1965?
Really good work.
As someone who currently lives in wichita its so strange for me the learn about events that happened so close to where i live now in fact the mcconnell airfirce based is only about a 15min drive from where im currently sitting while leaving this comment.
off topic but loving the subtle lilac eyeliner!! it kept catching my eye and i think it’s s’cute:)
I wish you could do an episode about the 3 hurricanes that affected Brevard county Florida in 2004. I know you mostly do tornadoes, would just like to see that in your format.
"This is one of the best hook echoes I have ever seen."
When a weatherman gets excited, bad things are about to happen...
The footage at 11:44 is where the whole girders = safety began. As you know, it took years to disavow that very dangerous myth. They were all very lucky that the tornado just sideswiped them. I just discovered your channel and it's exceptional. Thank you!
I’m curious as to why underground tornado shelters can’t be built into the slopes of underpasses. I know that underpasses themselves aren’t safe places to be, but for motorists caught on the road there are very few other options. Seeing that people still continue to try their luck in surviving in underpasses, then surely there is a way to construct underground shelters for just such emergencies?
Love the show. I missed a lot of twisters, Thank you.
have you heard of the tornado that hit the same city this year?
Love the eyeliner, too btw! :)
You've made my day! Thank you lovely !
Lost an aunt in this one. Scared of storms ever since.
So informative! Thanks for the upload!