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Historic tornado videos missing from youtube/the internet?

Scott Weberpal, one of the OG Wisconsin chasers from around the turn of the millennium, has recently started uploading/reuploading his old tornado footage. One of my very first chases was with him and couple other guys in Iowa in June 2006, but the day cap Atmospheric Anti-Climax.

 
Long-time chaser Warren Faidley has just made an hour-long compilation of his tornado footage from the '90s and 2000s, upscaled to 720p. If you gobbled up Weather Channel tornado documentaries in the '90s like I did, some of it will probably look familiar.

 
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It's so hard to wade through endless news clips and irrelevant content to actually find tornado videos now after each outbreak that I haven't even been keeping up with that for the last few years. Is anyone here keeping a good playlist or favorites list handy so I can catch up sometime?
 
Equus said:
It's so hard to wade through endless news clips and irrelevant content to actually find tornado videos now after each outbreak that I haven't even been keeping up with that for the last few years. Is anyone here keeping a good playlist or favorites list handy so I can catch up sometime?
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Not to put him on the spot, @TH2002 is good at sifting through the crap and finding the good stuff. There’s also a new little-known YouTube channel called “Tornado Compilations” that collects raw video from recent tornado events. They’re virtually unknown and deserve more attention than they’re getting.
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Scott Weberpal, one of the OG Wisconsin chasers from around the turn of the millennium, has recently started uploading/reuploading his old tornado footage. One of my very first chases was with him and couple other guys in Iowa in June 2006, but the day cap Atmospheric Anti-Climax.

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Funny how the forum retroactively censors all usages of the terms b*** and b***ed. I originally thought it only applied to discussion of active events.
 
Equus said:
It's so hard to wade through endless news clips and irrelevant content to actually find tornado videos now after each outbreak that I haven't even been keeping up with that for the last few years. Is anyone here keeping a good playlist or favorites list handy so I can catch up sometime?
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Jettisoning off this post to ask my own question I've actually asked before....

Is there ANYTHING, video or photo, of the Larkin/Franklin, AR EF4 from the March 14th event? You'd expect there to have been at least one video of it that I'd have come across but nope, no dice.

EDIT: Lol immediately afterward I found a photo of it in this video:


Quite a bit more compact than I was expecting TBH

EDIT 2: Also found another photo of it which looks more like what I pictured it would look like (on the right, it's comparing it to the Clinton EF4 from 2008 on the left)
 
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Anybody know what tornado this is from? According to the post, it came from one of Swegle Studios' vid on nocturnal tornadoes. New footage from the 2011 Joplin tornado outbreak perhaps?
 
Not sure where to put this- moderators please move to a more appropriate forum if needed.
Just found a new YouTube channel with some historical footage called "Storm Chasing History"
 
Bringing this over from the SigTor thread - Lemon & Umschied 2008 explicitly note that a single video exists of the Trousdale EF3 the year prior, showing both it and it's undocumented satellites which I didn't know existed till I read the paper.

"This abundant pre-existing vertical vorticity is also part of the reason for the satellite tornadoes that develop in the vicinity of the TT. In fact, as Donald Giuliano and David Demko tried to circumnavigate Greensburg to the east, they saw a large bowl shaped cloud region, the genesis of TT, along with a number of satellite tornadoes to the southeast and east of that tornado. Their video documentation will continue to be researched by the authors as it is believed this is the only video captured of the TT and its satellite tornadoes". (p. 16)

"TT" here is the "Trousdale Tornado". Does anybody have any information about this clip? I've never seen it and it is almost never brought up regarding tornado lost media, which makes me think it was never publicly released.

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This photo, taken 20 minutes after Greensburg was hit (from p. 50 of this source) might be a screenshot of the video but I've never seen this photo used in a "this is the Trousdale tornado" context.
 
Central Ohio Wx said:
Bringing this over from the SigTor thread - Lemon & Umschied 2008 explicitly note that a single video exists of the Trousdale EF3 the year prior, showing both it and it's undocumented satellites which I didn't know existed till I read the paper.

"This abundant pre-existing vertical vorticity is also part of the reason for the satellite tornadoes that develop in the vicinity of the TT. In fact, as Donald Giuliano and David Demko tried to circumnavigate Greensburg to the east, they saw a large bowl shaped cloud region, the genesis of TT, along with a number of satellite tornadoes to the southeast and east of that tornado. Their video documentation will continue to be researched by the authors as it is believed this is the only video captured of the TT and its satellite tornadoes". (p. 16)

"TT" here is the "Trousdale Tornado". Does anybody have any information about this clip? I've never seen it and it is almost never brought up regarding tornado lost media, which makes me think it was never publicly released.

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This photo, taken 20 minutes after Greensburg was hit (from p. 50 of this source) might be a screenshot of the video but I've never seen this photo used in a "this is the Trousdale tornado" context.
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So the video is online, but with an asterisk. Most of the attention was given to Greensburg in this edit, Trousdale’s segment is a lot of slow motion and freeze framing.
 
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