Brand New Footage of Andover Tornado

funny, but he seemed to be a bit of jerk... maybe just the stress of the situation.

He did and what was even better was when the know-it-all kept telling her "we're okay, it hasn't moved, it's in the same place".
 
There were four giant supercells that day.
Five: The supercell that formed just NE of OKC, started producing tornadoes near Keystone Lake, crossed the Cimarron Turnpike, and eventually hit Oologah, OK, as an F4, severely damaging the high school there.

This was the storm I was on.
 
Historic indeed. I had C and Ku band satellite dishes back then and remember watching the live, raw unedited news feeds that day as things unfolded. I've still got some reels of videotape of it around here somewhere.


Back in that day, "continuous coverage" was practically unheard of for TV meteorologists but we were sure doing it!

The prototype NEXRAD had been installed in OKC earlier that week and displayed couplets on both Red Rock and Cowley Co.

A historic day for many reasons.
 
Historic indeed. I had C and Ku band satellite dishes back then and remember watching the live, raw unedited news feeds that day as things unfolded. I've still got some reels of videotape of it around here somewhere.

Any chance those news feeds could make it to youtube? :rolleyes:

In all seriousness, how does one go about getting news footage of that day? Is it as simple as contacting the local stations? I'm very interested in getting anything on April 26th itself. I have lots of stuff with the aftermath on the 27th.

Do you know, David? Or Mike maybe?
 
KSNW TV in Wichita may still be selling "The Deadliest Storm" which was their after-storm news special which does have some video of the tornado and news coverage.

Also, Tim Marshall's 1991 video (stormtrack store) has a great chase when it was SW of ICT.
 
KSNW TV in Wichita may still be selling "The Deadliest Storm" which was their after-storm news special which does have some video of the tornado and news coverage.

Also, Tim Marshall's 1991 video (stormtrack store) has a great chase when it was SW of ICT.

I have the Deadliest Storm, one of my faves. I also have Tim's video. I'm just speaking solely on the newscasts/coverage themselves. Can one purchase or obtain video archives or is that impossible? I'm out of the loop so I have no clue.
 
I remember that day very well. I was 8 at the time was my first tornado ive ever seen. I remember being at our church in El Dorado watching the Tornado as it was coming torward us then make the Turn to go up the turnpike toward El Dorado lake. I remember the whole rest of the night there were tornado warnings. Thanks for posting the video.. watching it made memories come back.
 
Very cool video. It's weird watching video of a tornado that occured nearly 20 years ago, but you've never seen the video before.
 
My uncle lost his house in that storm. Hard to believe that was 19 years ago, I wasn't even born then. My family does own the KSNW TV special that they did.
 
Incredible video and funny commentary. "Why are there so many sirens??" "The tornado doesn't care about the TV, get downstairs". Lol.

Incredible to watch though. I loved the part around 3:40. Very cool perspective.
 
I'm now getting an error when attempting to open the video. It looks like the video poster has set it to private viewing only.
 
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