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That one of the Stanton tornado in its wedge stage is great, but the others are hit or miss. The first one has the color saturation turned up way too high.
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Significant Tornado Events
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In all fairness, one shouldn't expect amateur footage to have the same level of "polish" as professionally-filmed footage.
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Don't you think that is being a little bit petty?
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A bit hard to tell what I'm looking at, is that extreme ground scouring or vegetation damage?
Also, the tornado that struck Aberdeen was the same tornado that crossed over into Alabama and struck areas in Marion County that were just north of Hackleburg and Phil Campbell, yes the entire 130 miles of this could've been a tornado family, but given Dixie long-trackers it's probable that at least 100 miles of it was a single violent wedge. Really hope more photos from this outbreak can be uncovered at some point, there's none in the MWR report on it.
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Turning up the color saturation to 1000 isn't a flaw in the footage. And that's not my point. There are many, many "amateur" tornado videos from the 90s and even 2000s/2010s that exceed most storm chaser/"professional" footage out there.
No, not really.
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So maybe somewhat!
First of all, if you want to nitpick details about the footage then complain to the videographers. Complaining about it to me does nothing.
Did I ever say that all storm chaser fooage out there is the best? No, and if anything the best footage does come from the general public. But my point is in that terms of the level of polish in regards to things such as stabilization, color saturation, exposure, resolution among other things, professional footage is generally more well-rounded. Simply because not everyone wants to shell out $700 for a copy of Sony Vegas to make minor adjustments to videos.
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...you posted the videos?
Y'all are taking this way too personally.
Y'all are taking this way too personally.
Then don't tell me the videos I post are worthless. If you don't like em don't watch em, simple as that. IMO all tornado videos have value and many are underappreciated.
That being said, I'm not going to argue because I don't want to be the one who ruins this thread with an argument over whether a video is overexposed or has too much color saturation.
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Dude, the only one who would ruin the thread in this case is you from getting unnecessarily mad about a valid critique. Especially if you would take two seconds to look at the rest of the videos on the channel the Stanton video in question is from and realize the channel is run by an actual video producer whose LinkedIn mentions their experience in post production, implying they do, in fact, have access to the expensive softwares in question, and would actually imply the oversaturation (and for that matter to my eyes the contrast) was a stylistic choice and hence purposefully applied in post production. But we’ve digressed a ways from the thread’s purpose and I for one wouldn’t mind getting back on topic.
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Back to the topic at hand please.......
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Never knew a photo of the April 27, 1942 Pryor, OK tornado existed. This tornado got a WHOLE lot more attention than the F4 tornado that hit the Oklahoma City Suburbs in June that year because of the Battle of Midway in WWII.
I wish there were damage photos available of the June 12, 1942 event. It sounds like it was very violent and devastating based on the descriptions of the area affected, potentially similar to the 1999 and 2013 events.
*sigh*... guess it never takes two to argue. Blame one person then play innocent.
Back on topic, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Hallam tornado had recieved an F5 rating pre 1997-1999 or so. It certainly would have gotten an F5 rating in the 1970's when Fujita was most active. While the damage isn't particularly impressive when compared to other F5/EF5 tornadoes, if Greensburg got an EF5 rating I could definitely see a low-end F5 rating being squeezed out of Hallam.
This one well-bolted home in particular outside of Hallam reminds me of an EF5-rated damage point from Moore 2013:
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It’s pretty hard to tell if there anchor bolts on the foundation of the Hallam house*sigh*... guess it never takes two to argue. Blame one person then play innocent.
Back on topic, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Hallam tornado had recieved an F5 rating pre 1997-1999 or so. It certainly would have gotten an F5 rating in the 1970's when Fujita was most active. While the damage isn't particularly impressive when compared to other F5/EF5 tornadoes, if Greensburg got an EF5 rating I could definitely see a low-end F5 rating being squeezed out of Hallam.
This one well-bolted home in particular outside of Hallam reminds me of an EF5-rated damage point from Moore 2013:
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I know I've got more somewhere, but I can't find them at the moment. Here are a few:
Aren't those anchor bolts in the foreground? I could be wrong though, but I have read that at least one well-bolted home was swept away outside of Hallam.
Regardless, I know that the more common photos of home damage in Hallam (a 100-year old likely unanchored block foundation farmhouse) definitely wouldn't warrant an F5 rating.
I do note in the second photo where the 2x4 closest to the camera seems to have "pivoted" at the point where an anchor bolt was located, while the cut nails also visible have had virtually no effect on securing the home.
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There was also a small but very intense tornado outbreak on May 2, 1942 with three F4s each in Oklahoma and Kansas. Can't seem to find most of my photos from that event either for some reason, but here are two from the Pawhuska F4.
And of course during the violent 4/12/45 outbreak (best known for the Antlers F5, which I'm sure we've already covered so I probably don't need to post photos again) there was another intense F4 in the OKC Metro.
Most of the casualties were around Tinker AFB - the last photo is a Jeep that was thrown a great distance (anywhere from 250 yards to over a mile, depending on the source), killing a Corporal Ernest Montgomery. I did a bunch of research on the OKC-area tornadoes because at one point I was planning to follow up the 5/3/99 article with an article about all of OKC's close calls.
And of course during the violent 4/12/45 outbreak (best known for the Antlers F5, which I'm sure we've already covered so I probably don't need to post photos again) there was another intense F4 in the OKC Metro.
Most of the casualties were around Tinker AFB - the last photo is a Jeep that was thrown a great distance (anywhere from 250 yards to over a mile, depending on the source), killing a Corporal Ernest Montgomery. I did a bunch of research on the OKC-area tornadoes because at one point I was planning to follow up the 5/3/99 article with an article about all of OKC's close calls.
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There was also a small but very intense tornado outbreak on May 2, 1942 with three F4s each in Oklahoma and Kansas. Can't seem to find most of my photos from that event either for some reason, but here are two from the Pawhuska F4.
And of course during the violent 4/12/45 outbreak (best known for the Antlers F5, which I'm sure we've already covered so I probably don't need to post photos again) there was another intense F4 in the OKC Metro.
Most of the casualties were around Tinker AFB - the last photo is a Jeep that was thrown a great distance (anywhere from 250 yards to over a mile, depending on the source), killing a Corporal Ernest Montgomery. I did a bunch of research on the OKC-area tornadoes because at one point I was planning to follow up the 5/3/99 article with an article about all of OKC's close calls.
This is a map of tornadoes occurring in or around the OKC area going back to 1880 all the way up to 2017. Like the counties in Missisippi and northern Alabama, this area seems to also be filled with "tornado highways" of a sort.....must be cursed.
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