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Significant Tornado Events
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You mean Albion? There's a guy whose father shot some video but he didn't want to part with the tape. That was fine, so I offered to pay for it to be digitized.. and he said no. So then I found a library not too far from him where he could take it himself to get it digitized, and.. he never even answered me back. I sent him another email a few days ago but I dunno what his deal is. There's also a guy who lived several miles SW of Albion - he was paralyzed, but he was a Skywarn spotter and he used this video camera mounted to an antenna to scan the skies. Anyway, he caught the tornado right around the time it was rapidly intensifying and apparently the camera was recording. Only problem is he died several years ago and his son said he has no idea where the tape is, assuming he even kept it.
(Edit: Or you might've been talking about Tionesta? There's a video of the tornado crossing the Allegheny River - I know it exists because several people have mentioned it and I've found news articles about public screenings held a month or two afterward. Unfortunately, every possible lead I've found so far has been a dead end.)
On Moshannon, there's a woman who said her grandparents took photos and that she has them somewhere, but - stop me if you've heard this before - she still hasn't sent them or even responded to me recently. What a surprise.
So, I heard from a lady a while back who lives in Shelburne, which is basically directly between the Grand Valley and Corbetton damage paths, and she said that she remembered seeing pictures sort of circulating around the community at the time. She wasn't sure which tornado they were from, but considering Corbetton happened way out in the sticks and Grand Valley at least hit/passed a handful of populated places, I'd bet the latter.
..Which still leaves me basically nothing to go on, but at least I know there may be photos out there.
I assume your list only includes the violent tornadoes, but I also have photos of the Saegertown, Beaver Falls, Mesopotamia and Johnstown F3s. The first two have a pretty solid case for F4 IMO.
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locomusic01
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It makes me wonder if people actually even have photos/video when they do that, but then why bother saying it? And they often have a story or other details to go along with it, which seems like a pretty elaborate thing to randomly make up. I dunno. Maybe people just like to make me suffer lol
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Stuff like this is why I hate customer service jobs lol.
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I was curious if anyone knew of any really sources for the tornado that struck Washington DC in 1814 and pretty much won a battle? I only recently discovered the trivia fact and figured you guys are the best place to ask.
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List of tornadoes in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia
There's much debate if it was a hurricane or tornado but it likely helped us win the War of 1812 (albeit indirectly).
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Let's stop angsting about photos that just can't be uncovered and start talking about other tornadoes that hit national parks!
Sky just before F4 tornado hit Doe Valley back in 97. | Appalachia, East tennessee, Mother nature
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I found this looking up the Chilhowee Lake tornado, which I wanted to see if it was caused by the storm I call "Carol" and others call "the Cullman-Flat Rock cell" (It was). I think I can make out quite a rainwrapped base through the treeline.
Or how about Wyoming?
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It really didn’t help much, all it did was speed up the British leaving Washington DC. The war would later end in a stalemate.List of tornadoes in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia
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There's much debate if it was a hurricane or tornado but it likely helped us win the War of 1812 (albeit indirectly).
When did the USA win the war of 1812?List of tornadoes in Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia
There's much debate if it was a hurricane or tornado but it likely helped us win the War of 1812 (albeit indirectly).
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When we survived? It was really a draw where both sides kind of just stopped fighting. Hurricanes have played a larger role in the development of the Americas than is generally taught in our schools here. Can't imagine what it would be like to go through one on small wooden ships like they had back then, must have been terrifying to the extreme.
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The war ended in 1815.
eric11
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Just discovered some colored photos regard to the 1990 Bakersfield tornado.
I believed one mangled car mentioned in extremeplanet belongs to the center pic.
Some car parts scattered in the field
The famous road which was reported been completely scoured asphalt for long distance and only gravel left
A huge pump jack which been knocked down
The McCamey Water Pump station
I believed one mangled car mentioned in extremeplanet belongs to the center pic.
Some car parts scattered in the field
The famous road which was reported been completely scoured asphalt for long distance and only gravel left
A huge pump jack which been knocked down
The McCamey Water Pump station
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Some dead animal in distance.
A Power Plant or something? I'm not much familiar with these facilities and how they should be rated
Maybe a severely mangled tractor trailer
The famous scoured land with low-lying mesquite
This is the fun part, I'm guessing those oil tanks that were thrown for 3 miles were actually this?
A Power Plant or something? I'm not much familiar with these facilities and how they should be rated
Maybe a severely mangled tractor trailer
The famous scoured land with low-lying mesquite
This is the fun part, I'm guessing those oil tanks that were thrown for 3 miles were actually this?
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There are a couple more here: https://talkweather.com/threads/significant-tornado-events.1276/post-62186
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I dunno if this is supposed to be the tornado off to the right here or not - hard to tell because of the poor quality.
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Oh Yes haven't noticed you've posted before, anyway it's extremely violentThere are a couple more here: https://talkweather.com/threads/significant-tornado-events.1276/post-62186
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I dunno if this is supposed to be the tornado off to the right here or not - hard to tell because of the poor quality.
eric11
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The Bakersfield v2.0 in 2009 seems haven't been talked much, this tornado was responsible for debarking cedar and mesquite trees, gravel and larger rocks were scoured from the ground, leaving bare ground.
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So, I finally got one of the Tionesta photos I've been waiting for. It's not much - just a B&W clipping the person's mother saved from a newspaper - but still pretty exciting. It was apparently taken as the tornado was coming up over US 62, but I'm hoping I can dig up more context on it.
I forgot about this one! This thing produced some of the most severe shrubbery damage I’ve seen. Was this in the same area as the more infamous 1990 tornado?
Incredible news! Very excited to see.
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I hadn't heard of this one, but it's another good reminder of how many incredibly violent tornadoes go overlooked because they simply happen in remote areas.