Infamous overpass tornado video

[Matt Grans]

Thanks for posting a thread on this. It's great to know the background on this particular storm and I was personally wondering why the advice was to not seek shelter under an overpass since I had seen this video many years ago when it was first reported. This thread was very informative. Anyways... Being the old school type, I actually had the original broadcast on VHS until about a year ago when I reduced my storage as it were...

 

[David Drummond]

How about.... Because you could be seriously injured or killed by flying debris taking shelter there?

 

[Joel Wright]

Does anyone know if that infamous KS turnpike tornado was the same (but much weaker at that point obviously) tornado that struck Andover? I'm assuming it formed after the Andover tornado had ended.

It'd be interesting to see how that all evolved. If the turnpike tornado formed from a completely different meso, for example.

 

[Mike Smith]

It was the last of the series of tornadoes from the Andover supercell. The first of the tornadoes from that storm occurred southwest of Wichita near the town of Argonia. The Wichita-Andover storm was the second to last. The last was the Turnpike tornado.

 

[Matt Grans]

How about.... Because you could be seriously injured or killed by flying debris taking shelter there?

Yep... or flying cars for that matter. Great thread!