Piedmont, OK 4-30-1978

[Roy Britt]

I am posting this here because of it's historical importance in the early days of storm chasing. A chase team from NSSL recorded this tornado on a video tape recorder and were the first to do so. The tornado it's self is is not very impressive but the storm's updraft has great structure.

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

 

[Skip Talbot]

Just an FYI, posts about the first video taped tornado were moved to a new thread in the Advanced forum:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?29387-1978-Piedmont-OK-tornado-first-on-video


And we'll leave the original post here for discussion specifically about the Piedmont tornado. Thanks