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Historic tornado videos missing from youtube/the internet?

I don’t know about historic, and if one wants to be especially technical it’s not a tornado since it was only ever over water, but it is a neat event. A rare Lake Tahoe waterspout from late 1998, filmed by a local living along the shore. Dr. Joe Golden cited this as being one of the largest waterspouts he had seen at the time, his Weatherwise article is how I even found the videographer. As far as I know, this is one of only two known videos from this morning.
 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
It's not publicly available (yet)...but it is historic and it is missing.



TLDR: Someone may have taken a video of Barneveld.
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If this story is legit ( it is from Reddit after all...), this would be quite huge. Probably the latest F5/EF5 that has ever occurred
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Lake Martin EF4 said:
It's not publicly available (yet)...but it is historic and it is missing.



TLDR: Someone may have taken a video of Barneveld.
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Just realized this was a year ago. Was there no follow up? I'm gonna contact this Redditor
 
WeathermanLeprechaun said:
Just realized this was a year ago. Was there no follow up? I'm gonna contact this Redditor
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I think my head would explode if I actually saw footage of Barneveld (although given that it would have been taken at night, with a very early home camera, on a now over 40-year-old videotape, I'm not expecting too much). Heck, if they find it I'd like to see their uncle's train videos, too especially if there are any from Wisconsin.
 
Though not in depth or revealing anything new, here's a short local documentary of part of the Tri-State tornado including interviews with some of the survivors.

 
Lake Martin EF4 said:
It's not publicly available (yet)...but it is historic and it is missing.



TLDR: Someone may have taken a video of Barneveld.
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Is it just me or does this seem fishy? Firstly, I’ve talked to many people who were in Barneveld none of them had talked about seeing it even those inside of vehicles caught in the tornado in town. Secondly based on radar scans it seems like it would have been extremely hard to see the tornado since it seemed to have also been rain wrapped and not even to mention its forward speed was 70 MPH. That’s just my thoughts but this very well could be true, we just don’t have any evidence yet beside a post on Reddit.
 
ATWChasing said:
Is it just me or does this seem fishy? Firstly, I’ve talked to many people who were in Barneveld none of them had talked about seeing it even those inside of vehicles caught in the tornado in town. Secondly based on radar scans it seems like it would have been extremely hard to see the tornado since it seemed to have also been rain wrapped and not even to mention its forward speed was 70 MPH. That’s just my thoughts but this very well could be true, we just don’t have any evidence yet beside a post on Reddit.
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So, if anyone is still interested in hearing more about this, I recently did an interview with a survivor of the Barneveld tornado from a nearby town. He was driving home with his son and he was struck by the tornado. I asked him if he thought there was any position in town where you could see the tornado or if he saw the tornado. His response was, "Well, I drove into it so that should give you your answer." On the topic of seeing it from town he said it was possible someone could have seen it if they were watching or awhile in town. I wanted to make a note of this so that's why I added this.
 
ATWChasing said:
So, if anyone is still interested in hearing more about this, I recently did an interview with a survivor of the Barneveld tornado from a nearby town. He was driving home with his son and he was struck by the tornado. I asked him if he thought there was any position in town where you could see the tornado or if he saw the tornado. His response was, "Well, I drove into it so that should give you your answer." On the topic of seeing it from town he said it was possible someone could have seen it if they were watching or awhile in town. I wanted to make a note of this so that's why I added this.
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I seriously doubt anyone would've been filming at 12am a highly rain wrapped tornado. Not even today would much footage emerge if it happened. Also, it's Reddit. Not a highly reliable source. I'm sure you'd know that lol, keep up these good posts!


With the chaser convergence nowadays, there would probably be like 30 chasers on it at minimum LMAO
 
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