Whew, awful dusty in here. With the 30th anniversary of this legendary tornadic event approaching, I teamed up with Bruce Haynie and weaved together a 4K60 remaster of his spectacular video document of the Clarendon to Allison tornado family, sourced directly from the original Hi8 tape. Decided to set it as a Premiere for tomorrow, figured it’d be better than just unceremoniously plopping it into existence!
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1995-06-08: Pampa/Allison/Kellerville tornado outbreak
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JamesCaruso
Staff member
I started chasing the year after this, but recall a couple of outbreaks the first week of June1995 already having attained legendary status by then! Bobby Prentice had put out a video called “7 Roars Over Texas” or something like that, which was pretty high-profile back in the day. It contributed to a formative “sense of place” for the Texas Panhandle as quintessential chase country, which continues to this day, and helps explain my enduring preference for the southern Plains over the northern Plains.
William Monfredo
EF4
I started chasing the year after this, too. But...
I was moving that day, traveling on I-40, and I could see twin supercells, very striated & large "barber poles," while driving east out of Amarillo. When I crossed the very distinct TX dry line, my windows immediately fogged up. A flurry of tornado warnings for those Panhandle counties on the radio that late afternoon, but little matter, I couldn't chase them with a U-haul anyway! The storms and their "atomized" precipitation crossed I-40, the road was wet, and when I looked just off to the northeast, quite a dark view of a "cloud on the ground," more or less.
I was moving that day, traveling on I-40, and I could see twin supercells, very striated & large "barber poles," while driving east out of Amarillo. When I crossed the very distinct TX dry line, my windows immediately fogged up. A flurry of tornado warnings for those Panhandle counties on the radio that late afternoon, but little matter, I couldn't chase them with a U-haul anyway! The storms and their "atomized" precipitation crossed I-40, the road was wet, and when I looked just off to the northeast, quite a dark view of a "cloud on the ground," more or less.
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Mike Thornton
EF2
Awesome vintage footage as always, Angel. I always enjoy your posts.
