Posted on 09/06/2022 6:48:02 AM PDT by basalt
This was a watershed moment in the understanding and study of "violent" tornadoes....proving the Multi-Vortex theory of Dr Ted Fujita...16 year old Bruce Boyd captures the very rare instance of an F-5 tornado forming...being less than a mile away...yes, im a weather geek...
i had never seen the entire footage before.....the kid wason his toes that day...remarkable footage..
Wow! Video has come a long way in 50 years!
My aunt was a school teacher in Xenia then. She told me about that day and it was pretty scary.
I’ll take riding out a hurricane over a tornado any day.
This tornado was the weather nightmare of my childhood. Wasn’t there, but the videos were ubiquitous.
I’m assuming the multi-vortex part is the several smaller “spinners” appearing as the whole damn thing approaches the earf.
rare to capture, so close up, the formation of one of the most powerful tornadoes ever seen...probably the most studied tornado ever because of this footage...
Yes, and to consider the clumsy bulkiness of video equipment back then, you have to give props to the filmer for having the presence of mind to deal with all of the mechanics necessary. It wasn’t just whipping your phone out and tapping a button.
I would like to experience a large tornado in a storm cellar with a plexiglass roof!
Imagine the media bed-wetting over “climate change” if that happened today...OMG
it was actually a small Bell & Howell Super 8 camera that he used...you can the camera jerk to the side when the film begins...that was actually the kids mother trying to pull him inside...he then calmly steps off the porch while still filming...
These little sub-vortices are no different.
lol!!!...love it!!
It was extremely violent even for an F5
4:40pm April 3, 1974, the worst of the worst happened
5:00pm April 3, 1974, the start of Xenia’s finest hours, days, week & months.
I am proud to say, I not only was there but in my own very small way helped that little farm town recover.
i read the great Polk Laffoon book...still have a copy. Ive been to Xenia twice....just a remarkable come back story.
actually sheared off parking meters at the base...yikes...
My husband and I lived in Centerville, OH at the time and we had a 3 month old baby. My husband was closer to the tornado on his job than I was - had lots and lots of rain and hail and I stood at a window and watched it all develop.
Moved there from CA and had no experience whatsoever with that kind of weather. Clueless! We did have lots of tornado warnings on TV for a couple of days. Had a big walk in bedroom closet and never thought to take refuge in there with the baby. Lived in a large brick apartment building and I figured it was a pretty safe building until I saw piles of bricks that used to be homes and apartments and office buildings.
Moved back to CA, went through some rattling and shaking there over the years and then retired to GA where hurricanes and tornadoes are commonplace..Not as clueless anymore!!!
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