04-03-1956 Anniversary of the F-5 Hudsonville-Standale Michigan Tornado

[mikegeukes]

Today is the Anniversary of the Hudsonville-Standale Michigan F-5 Tornado
April 3, 1956 this tornado killed 17 and injured 340
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/science/19560403/

Videos of the tornado:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/science/19560403/video/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAP6ffWeBFg

By the way, my father saw this F-5 tornado.

The only other Michigan F-5 tornado was the Flint-Beecher tornado.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/1953beecher/

Mike

 

[Simon Andersen]

Here's a filmclip of the tornado itself, coupled with actual audio recorded by a seperate witness. The footage shown in the last couple of seconds may not be of this tornado; Grazulis used this during his TVC-segments on the '57 Dallas tornado, though he must be in error here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFLpvUinRrY

I think it's exciting that footage from the infancy of tornado filmography is still surfacing. Here's the generally accepted list of filmed 1950's tornadoes:

1) Corn, OK. 6/8/1951 - Twin tornadoes rotating opposite ways.
2) Warner Robbins, GA. 4/30/1953 - An army man barely have time to record flimsy living quarters being demolished in front of him before the tornado (allegedly) kills him.
3) Scottsbluff, NE. 1955 - Up to 13 tornadoes is seen in and around town. This was the most filmed tornado pre-Dallas tornado.
4) Dallas, TX. 4/2/1957 - Hours and hours of footage.
5) Fargo, ND. 6/20/1957 - Like at Dallas.
6) Perrin AFB 1957 - Colorfootage of the entire lifespan.

Sorry for digressing a bit, but I think tornado history is very interesting. I hope you do to.

 

[Chris Vagasky]

Ernest Ostuno from the Weather Service Forecast Office in Grand Rapids wrote a paper about the outbreak...

http://www.ejssm.org/ojs/index.php/ejssm/article/view/36/36