1965 Palm Sunday Tornado - Shelby County, Ohio

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@bruceferguson6637 6 ай бұрын

One of the tornadoes passed just south of my uncle’s farm near Prospect, Ohio, on state route 257. I believe the tornado was in a rope stage. You could see a shallow trough in the field and then it crosses the road and demolished a church. It literally went right up a slate sidewalk through the small cemetery and nailed the church. The grave markers closest to the church were the old, thin tablet-looking ones. They were tilted inward towards the suction of the funnel on either side. Kind of eerie.

@Labyrinthine_Complexities Жыл бұрын

Absolutely astounding footage for the time. Such a heartbreaking day. Thank you for sharing this!❤

@douglasgriffiths3534 Жыл бұрын

My husband was born 8 days after this outbreak on April 19, 1965. He passed away on June 5, 2022. I was 8 years old when the outbreak happened. We lived in Michigan, and it was a stormy day, and we had tornado watches, but no tornado. We lived in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. (Jan Griffiths).

@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the blanket tornado warning which was issued by the Weather Bureau that evening just after 6 pm. I was standing on a hill, looking north from North Walnut Street in Bloomington, IN and seeing thunderstorm clouds which looked like atomic bombs up north of Indianapolis. The next weekend we drove up to Frankfort to visit my aunt and uncle. The damage around Lebanon, IN was mind-bending. During our trip, we drove over to Russiaville and Alto, IN -- which were *gone*.

@ottosaxo 2 жыл бұрын

Your descriptions make it all very tangible. I really looked all the places up on a map and checked the distances. Thank you for sharing.

@lowcruisin7637 Жыл бұрын

Wow, I have never seen this or knew about this. I was born in Shelby County, Sidney Ohio in 1965

@tonyapitman4180 7 ай бұрын

me too lol

@denisefallin8042 2 жыл бұрын

Thank u for sharing. And the music so haunting and warm sounds like my grandmother's old upright piano

@winnienguyen4420 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like they are playing the song "Yesterday" by the Beatles.

@sejma9376 2 жыл бұрын

yesterday by the beatles on piano

@deb-dfreeman1382 6 ай бұрын

So incredibly well done

@P_RO_ 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing this to us. There is comparatively little video footage of these older storms which makes them even more valuable.

@moviemagg 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this historic footage......

@garrettkessler1895 2 жыл бұрын

"Yesterday"....a perfect tune to go with destruction.

@markdinkel-uh2je 7 ай бұрын

Can't remember palm sunday twisters but Yesterday came out that year. Jimmy clark won Indy 500, I had my 1st Communion at St Michaels, and my Grandfather died on June 5th.

@charlietango5163 2 жыл бұрын

Such horrible destruction! Thanks for sharing. It was good, Chris.

@nashdev2 2 жыл бұрын

this is just a crazy thing to see, and seeing an outbreak is rare!

@stockardchanning5354 2 жыл бұрын

My mom remembers this she was 14 living in wells county she said keystone Indiana got hit the hardest a mother and child were parished in side a church

@Og-Judy 2 жыл бұрын

Nearly 60 years ago. All has been rebuilt. There's been more tornados since.

@davidlafleche1142 2 жыл бұрын

I saw that documentary about the 1974 outbreak that wiped out Xenia. The only one worse was 2011. Even Springfield, Mass. got one.

@douglasgriffiths3534 Жыл бұрын

Of course everything has been rebuilt. Almost 58 years ago. And of course more tornadoes, and more and severe outbreaks. That's a long period of time. (Jan Griffiths).

@mostcom 2 жыл бұрын

Dad drove us through Pittsfield to see the aftermath. Seven miles from us then.

@bigthunder2860 2 жыл бұрын

This was a tornado outbreak and nobody expected,By the time warning went out it was over,

@davidlafleche1142 2 жыл бұрын

Tornado forecasting has improved a lot since then. But forecasters don't always get it. Look up "New England's Killer Hurricane of 1938." ONE guy got it right; the other old fogies didn't believe him, and never thought a big hurricane could get that far north. No warnings were issued, and nobody knew it was coming.

@MrVietDonger-y9l 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of these tornadoes should of been rated F5

@LITTLE1994 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know there was color footage of this event.

@douglasgriffiths3534 Жыл бұрын

Color film was available for Super 8 home movie cameras back then. I have some color home movies that my dad took from around the same time frame. Can't watch them though--no projector. (Jan Griffiths).

@craigkinstle4295 7 ай бұрын

Jan, have the super 8"s transferred to a thumb drive. My mother did that to my grandfather's super 8 collection.