What's the most beautiful tornado you've seen/witnessed?

[Philip Flory]

I would have to say the Mulvane tornado as well.

The Mulvane tornado not only exhibited beauty no words could describe, it exhibited some of the most violent rotation I have ever seen.

I have been thinking about how many people like to associate tornado size with strength, the Mulvane tornado would be a great example that size is often irrelevant.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Originally posted by Jeff Lawson


The second photo is the Enid, OK tornado from June 1966 (can't remember the exact date). When I was a kid, I remember checking out a book on tornadoes from the school library which had that photo on the cover. It was the beginning of the end, so to speak.

I know just the book you are talking about. I got the same one from the library at my old elementary school.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Originally posted by George Tincher
Andrew,

Your bottom photo is the June 5, 1966 Enid, OK tornado. Here are some other photos of it at different stages:

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/nssl0057.htm

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/nssl0058.htm

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/nssl0059.htm

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nssl/nssl0060.htm

I was very familiar with that tornado, at least as far as photo #0059 is concerned. It graced the cover of my favorite childhood book titled Disaster: Tornadoes by Dennis Brindell Fradin. I checked that book out so many times in elementary school, I nearly wore it out. I think the school librarian finally just gave it to me!

-George

Thanks for helping me figure it out guys!! Thats probably the same book Jeff mentioned, that I also checked out many times!

 

[George Tincher]

LOL. This is really funny. Here's 3 of us in this thread who all wore out the same exact book in elementary school. And we are all still weather nuts. Makes me wonder how many others have a childhood connection to that book.

BTW, even though it was written for children, it had some pretty good interviews at the beginning with survivors of the April 10, 1979 Vernon and Wichita Falls, TX tornadoes.

http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0516008544.html

-George

 

[Kiel Ortega]

For me, it'll be hard to top May 29, 2004...

I'd agree here...I had the nice vantage point due east of the tornado with the setting sun in the back.

Picture sucks...real thing was much better.

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[Michael P. Morris]

I remember that same book as well, and the other day I even saw those pictures at the OKC airport on souvenir magnets.

 

[Reed Timmer]

I'd have to say Manchester (following 2 pics) and the Brady, NE tornado.
Throckmorton in 2002 was also a beautiful tornado

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[Darin Brunin]

I guess I am not the only one by far that has read that book. That book was the first book that I read about tornadoes when I was younger. Does anyone remember a picture in it where a tornado was about to hit a school? The picture on the front of the book still sticks out in my mind.

Darin

 

[George Tincher]

Yeah Darin, there was an artists conception of a tornado plowing into a school. It was flipping vehicles and such.

There was also a picture near the back of a tornado approaching a Paris, TX school. In the pic you could see the kids out on the playground just gazing at it in amazement.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Yep, I remember that picture. I'd love to get my hands on a copy of that book for old times sake.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Originally posted by Shane Adams+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shane Adams)</div>

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Looking SW from Andover, KS — April 26, 1991 — video by Earle Evans
I had to mention this video in particular, because in it the tornado is displaying the most incredible motion and rotation I've seen in any tornado video. In a similar league is the N Minneapolis, MN, tornado of 7/18/1986.

AMEN - THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TORNADO (AND VIDEO) OF ALL-TIME. TOTALLY ALL-WORLD, ALL-UNIVERSE[/b]

I checked out this movie from the local library that had that segment uncut on video, which was awesome...but they set it to this freaky music...that made it even more erie.

 

[Joel Wright]

Originally posted by APritchard+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(APritchard)</div>

Originally posted by Shane Adams@
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[Broken External Image]:http://www.tornadochaser.com/photo/andoverter.gif
Looking SW from Andover, KS — April 26, 1991 — video by Earle Evans
I had to mention this video in particular, because in it the tornado is displaying the most incredible motion and rotation I've seen in any tornado video. In a similar league is the N Minneapolis, MN, tornado of 7/18/1986.

AMEN - THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TORNADO (AND VIDEO) OF ALL-TIME. TOTALLY ALL-WORLD, ALL-UNIVERSE

I checked out this movie from the local library that had that segment uncut on video, which was awesome...but they set it to this freaky music...that made it even more erie.[/b]

There was a video made back in the mid 90's. I think it was called Tornadoes the Entity that featured a long segment on that tornado with erie background music. There were no naration at all on the video, just music lol.

 

[Tony Laubach]

My vote would be Andover, KS - April 26, 1991... nothing I've seen in real life or in video could EVEN begin to compare...

 

[Robert Dewey]

Originally posted by Joel Wright+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Joel Wright)</div>

Originally posted by APritchard+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(APritchard)

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[Broken External Image]:http://www.tornadochaser.com/photo/andoverter.gif
Looking SW from Andover, KS — April 26, 1991 — video by Earle Evans
I had to mention this video in particular, because in it the tornado is displaying the most incredible motion and rotation I've seen in any tornado video. In a similar league is the N Minneapolis, MN, tornado of 7/18/1986.

AMEN - THE MOST IMPRESSIVE TORNADO (AND VIDEO) OF ALL-TIME. TOTALLY ALL-WORLD, ALL-UNIVERSE

I checked out this movie from the local library that had that segment uncut on video, which was awesome...but they set it to this freaky music...that made it even more erie.[/b]

There was a video made back in the mid 90's. I think it was called Tornadoes the Entity that featured a long segment on that tornado with erie background music. There were no naration at all on the video, just music lol.[/b][/quote]

Ahhh yes, and excellent piece of video! I remember that, with the erie soundtrack and all. I actually enjoyed the soundtrack - It did seem to make the tornadoes more scary....

 

[Thomas Loades]

Originally posted by George Tincher
LOL. This is really funny. Here's 3 of us in this thread who all wore out the same exact book in elementary school. And we are all still weather nuts. Makes me wonder how many others have a childhood connection to that book.

BTW, even though it was written for children, it had some pretty good interviews at the beginning with survivors of the April 10, 1979 Vernon and Wichita Falls, TX tornadoes.

http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0516008544.html

-George

Make that four. I love that book, and was overjoyed to find (and win) it on eBay last year. I, too, tought those survivor stories were fascinating — the one that made an impression on me was one of the Vernon tornado survivors who said she heard the tornado warning on TV, went to her front door to see if she could see the tornado, and was confronted by a pitch black wall of cloud. Then the door snapped off its hinges.