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Historic tornado videos missing from youtube/the internet?

Actually that reminds me, does anyone have that one tripod sideswipe video of the Albany, GA EF3? It was taken from a screened in patio, you can hear a tornado siren, I believe there are some bird feeders and a flag blowing around, and you can see one of the clearest examples of a tornado wind shift I’ve ever seen on video. You never actually see the tornado itself though. It’s gone from YouTube apparently, and it’s not the one with all the falling trees. Anyone remember what I’m talking about?
 
buckeye05 said:
Actually that reminds me, does anyone have that one tripod sideswipe video of the Albany, GA EF3? It was taken from a screened in patio, you can hear a tornado siren, I believe there are some bird feeders and a flag blowing around, and you can see one of the clearest examples of a tornado wind shift I’ve ever seen on video. You never actually see the tornado itself though. It’s gone from YouTube apparently, and it’s not the one with all the falling trees. Anyone remember what I’m talking about?
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is this it?
 
buckeye05 said:
Yes!!! Where can I find it? Thanks so much!

Edit: never mind, that’s it right there. I guess it didn’t get taken down. YouTube’s search function is garbage.
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It's still there obviously, but it's unlisted. I had the link saved in my collection.

But yes, YouTube's search function is a complete truckload of rotten eggs. It's even better now (not!) that YT got rid of the button to remove Shorts from your homepage. So they stick around now, whether you like it or not, unless you use browser extensions to forcibly remove them (there was never an official option to remove them from search results, but again, browser extensions).

Anyhow, sorry for the mini-rant.
 
So I recently came across this video from the May 3rd, 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore tornado on my feed last week which happens to contain some footage of the Mulhall tornado towards the end of the video at around the 24:15 mark. Nice to see more footage of this tornado, and footage of Mulhall surface online as I thought for the longest time there was no footage of Mulhall as it happened at night, and was overshadowed by the Bridge Creek tornado earlier in the day.
 
KCMO Railfan said:
So I recently came across this video from the May 3rd, 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore tornado on my feed last week which happens to contain some footage of the Mulhall tornado towards the end of the video at around the 24:15 mark. Nice to see more footage of this tornado, and footage of Mulhall surface online as I thought for the longest time there was no footage of Mulhall as it happened at night, and was overshadowed by the Bridge Creek tornado earlier in the day.
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This footage also, in my opinion, helps disprove the "4-mile" DOW estimate as it shows an unusually large mesocyclone during one of the flashes. Not sure how they found it but great find regardless.
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
@TH2002 @buckeye05 @locomusic01 get in here right now! Possible historic tornado pic just dropped!
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I don't want to default to immediately being dismissive, but my skepticism always overrides excitement when 'new' photos like this drop.

Someone on reddit claimed the photo is from a newspaper clipping, which is very plausible, but subsequently failed to provide a scan of the original page from the newspaper.

Is it real? Maybe. Does it show the tornado? Also maybe. Can I say for sure that this is a historic tornado photo? No.
 
TH2002 said:
Someone on reddit claimed the photo is from a newspaper clipping, which is very plausible, but subsequently failed to provide a scan of the original page from the newspaper.

Is it real? Maybe. Does it show the tornado? Also maybe. Can I say for sure that this is a historic tornado photo? No.
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I have access to Newspapers.com; I can look for it shortly.
 
TheSuckZone said:
Sorry if posted elsewhere, I just ran across this on Twitter tonight

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Yeah, that's some heck of a resemblance. In fairness, every tornado is actually like this with multi vortices embedded inside them but what they hit and what they're full of can obscure them. In this case, what the condensation funnel was made of was light enough to show these violent vortices.

I'm pretty sure they are visible somewhat in Duke Evans' video too.

ilovejoshallen said:
Does anyone here have rare footage from Stratton or Bakersfield Valley 1990? I'm pretty sure this is a pic of BV btw.
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This showed up on Reddit but it's a B&W newspaper photo and I can hardly make it out. That might be the left edge of it but I wouldn't call this anything historic unless it's genuinely confirmed it's Bakersfield Valley.
 
ilovejoshallen said:
Does anyone here have rare footage from Stratton or Bakersfield Valley 1990? I'm pretty sure this is a pic of BV btw.
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Amazing news - not only is this photo verifiably real, I found a much better-quality version of it here; it was first published on June 2, 1990:
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This was taken along U.S. 130 to the NW of Iraan; TA doesn't work for me so if anyone wants to try to line it up be my guest.

I don't know why it was deepfried to high hell but the original image gives you a much better view of the entire structure.
 
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Central Ohio Wx said:
Amazing news - not only is this photo verifiably real, I found a much better-quality version of it here; it was first published on June 2, 1990:
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This was taken along U.S. 130 to the NW of Iraan; TA doesn't work for me so if anyone wants to try to line it up be my guest.

I don't know why it was deepfried to high hell but the original image gives you a much better view of the entire structure.
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Holy excrement - not only can you see that the blackness effectively covers, like, the entire horizon, but you can see an even darker area to the far right, one that looks suspiciously like the edge of a wedge tornado. In fairness, that could also be trees, but still. I never thought we'd ever see media of the supercell at all, so this is a HUGE find. Bravo, @ilovejoshallen!
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
Holy excrement - not only can you see that the blackness effectively covers, like, the entire horizon, but you can see an even darker area to the far right, one that looks suspiciously like the edge of a wedge tornado. In fairness, that could also be trees, but still. I never thought we'd ever see media of the supercell at all, so this is a HUGE find. Bravo, @ilovejoshallen!
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As far as I am aware, the image I sent has never been shown online outside of Newspapers.com. I have no idea why whoever originally clipped this decided to deep fry it, enhance the contrast and make it almost unviewable, but alas we finally have a for-sure BV image.
 
Also Joshallen I saw (and commented on) the Reddit post that was presumably yours - I can share more info from the specific paper at the SigTor thread if you want. There’s a few other images I’ve found which I don’t think have seen widespread usage.
 
What a beast if that's really the edge of it. The original deepfried photo made it so much harder to tell. Definitely easier to confirm there. I knew it was verifiable but what I was uncertain on is what was shown in the image.
 
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