11 Killed as deadly tornadoes rip through Houston Area, 1983

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6 жыл бұрын

Newscast from May 20th, 1983, coverage of killer tornadoes that hit the Houston area.
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@candysmith8724 3 жыл бұрын

This entire video, huge nostalgia for me as a 80's kid in Houston.

@jessicagarcia7558 3 жыл бұрын

I know I'm 80's and 90's kid too. Lives in Houston all my life.

@billybassman21 5 жыл бұрын

I remember this storm well, I was 7 at the time. It came through around 3 am just after my dad got off work. We lived near Mt Houston and I-45. We heard a loud crack of thunder and a train sound with winds that gusted at least 70 mph, knocking the power out. At one point during the storm it blew our front door open because someone forgot to lock it. Our neighbors patio was destroyed a few feet from our house. I went to school later that morning and all the tree leaves were bowed in with limbs everywhere indicating strong winds. That day we had tornado drills at school and another one touched down just north of our school. According to the NWS data the early morning tornado formed near 290 and Pinemount and crossed by MT Houston and Sweetwater near I-45, 1/4 of a mile from our house. Alicia would come a couple of months later.

@andrewflores1855 2 жыл бұрын

I remember those tornadoes. I was 5 yrs old. We stayed in the apartments across from mytiburger at 43rd and tc jester. It busted out the windows in the back of the apartments. The neighborhood around had a lot of damage and downed trees. When Alicia hit in August I think, we went to shelter at McArthur high school. Funny how you remember some things well.

@malcolmpalmer569 8 ай бұрын

6:37.

@billybassman21 8 ай бұрын

@@andrewflores1855 I found out this storm was a bow echo, even if you didn't get hit by a tornado the winds were very strong. It was actually from an outflow boundary from storms in the hill country early in the day that sparked new storms that formed near Brenham. Alicia hit on August 18th, it came through Houston in the early morning hours and was gone by 10 am. It was a small storm in actual size. IAH never even hit hurricane force winds. It uprooted a Cottonwood tree in our front yard. We went to some lawn place near FM 1960 and bought a chain saw that same day. Power was out for two days at our house, neighbors down the street didn't have power for 2 weeks because their transformer blew up.

@MyCatInABox 13 күн бұрын

Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Elma barerra, Marvin Zindler and Ed Brandon were in my livingroom on our TV5g every night of the week:Live at 5:00 and 10:00 on our TV. I miss these days😮

@MrSamer83 5 жыл бұрын

Man those days and nights of movies at 3pm and 1030pm movies on ABC 13. Memories!!!

@jessicagarcia7558 3 жыл бұрын

Right !

@tristonalexis2164 4 жыл бұрын

Weingarten again turned their store into "Safeway" and afterwards they sold it to Gerland's Food Fair and other competitors. 9:55, Foley's 21:13 & AstroWorld 26:31

@theamused8705 4 жыл бұрын

This happened again in November 1992 when 6 tornadoes dropped on Harris county. The 6th one was an F-4 that hit Channelview..

@mandoso7222 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t any of it on google

@billyfowler9423 Жыл бұрын

The first tornado in 1992 touched down near Fry and I-10 and crossed near Clay and Hwy 6. It destroyed the library on Clay, damaged the West Houston Airport and damaged several homes and businesses. The Killiwood subdivision in Katy sustained severe damage. That tornado made it's way to FM 1960 and damaged the roof of a Randalls store before going back up.

@teyjanetroman85 Жыл бұрын

@@billyfowler9423 I remember that November 1992 tornado, I was 7 at the time and I saw something on the ground with lightning surrounding it. My sister was 5 at the time. I heard that the west side took the worst hit and the east side as well. It was crazy year, during the beginning of my elementary school days.

@billyfowler9423 Жыл бұрын

@@teyjanetroman85 I lived in the Aldine area and didn't get much of anything that day. This one in 1983 however touched down a 1/4 of a mile from our house and destroyed our neighbors patio across the street.

@JustinDoesASMR25 Жыл бұрын

@@billyfowler9423 wow my family lived over by clay rd and fry road in Westfield estates which as far as I know wasnt build yet neighborhood cause I did a history check on my old home on Sabrina oaks lane house was built in 98 the year I was born and we moved in 5 years later in 04

@mortaltomcatsvincentherman6284 5 жыл бұрын

Only 9.9% interest on a Nissan truck in 1983 ?!?

@mrknowitall8099 3 жыл бұрын

I know right! Try 0-2.9% interest nowadays lol

@michaelgonzales2559 Жыл бұрын

I feel bad about the 11 that died on May 20th 1983

@jlh4jc 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this very well. I was 8 and my Parents took me to Europe. We lived in Austin which had no international flights. So we had to drive to Houston to take a KLM flight to Amsterdam. We left my Dad's Volvo at my Grandparents apartment on Eldridge and Memorial drive and they drove us to the airport. I know we left on May 7th because that's the date my old passport was stamped. Anyways, on the day of these tornadoes, we were flying back to Houston on KLM on this date and our flight got diverted to let this storm pass. When my Grandparents picked us up at Intercontinental, they told us about the tornadoes. We stayed overnight at their place. The next morning, we're driving back to Austin on I-10 and I remember seeing road signs bent and a Honda motorcycle dealership sign tilted.

@billybassman21 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing planes overhead circling around as the storm passed. They were probably instructed to fly above the storm so they could land once the storm passed. Who knows you might have been in one of those planes! It was crazy. As Ed kinda mentioned these storms were caused by outflow funnel boundaries from storms along the cool front in the central part of the state that formed in the late afternoon over the hill country. Such storms usually weaken, but the atmosphere was very unstable. We just had a similar setup a few days ago with a couple of small tornadoes west of Houston. This was an extreme event not typical for SE Texas.

@tyrese3745 2 жыл бұрын

I thought ABC News Nightline was next following the newscast. Didn't ABC 13 carried that late news program back in '83?

@malcolmpalmer569 11 ай бұрын

What's wrong with the sound quality @ABC13Houston? Please fix it because I couldn't hear the video of the 16 May 1983 newscast.

@joemartin1253 5 жыл бұрын

This was the year Hurricane Alicia hit I was 10 years old.

@theamused8705 4 жыл бұрын

I moved to the area a year after Alicia. Up in Kingwood there were still trees laying around that were knocked over by that Hurricane..

@deborahlopez9795 2 ай бұрын

41 years later it happened again. And I did talk about that 1st hurricane Alicia

@sumeetbeniwal6365 Жыл бұрын

Honestly my family has a history of tornado events. My grandpa and grandma’s house took a direct hit from the 1995 Dimmit Texas EF3. Luckily both of them were visiting my mom and dad In Houston. Also in 1983, in the exact tornado as this one, my parents were gonna fly on a Southwest Airlines flight to New Orleans Louisiana to visit my dad’s brother. But the flight was delayed for 5 hours because of this tornado.