Tornado! (1967) - Part 2

[@smokinbill8739]

I love these outdated tornado films. How far we have come! This is the film they showed us at school every year at the start of tornado season. It always scared the hell out of me.

[@Hockeyfan24]

Same

[@willisocyrus]

My neighborhood was hit by an F4/5 in Chicago in 1967. I was just 5 years old but I will always remember it like it just happened yesterday. Our home withstood the onslaught but all our living room windows were blown into the house along with lots of rain water and debris. It was known as the Oak Lawn tornado outbreak, that spawned 45 tornadoes.

[@Jaymindrew1990]

3:03 The Bad Advice tag cracked me up, especially when it said it was 1967 “when we didn’t know any better”. Fill in the blank like “we didn’t use bathrooms either, ate topsoil for dinner, and hit rabbits with rocks so we could sew their pelts together and make primitive clothes”. Just funny!

[@danadoozer9990]

These old videos are so much more terrifying than the slick, produced videos of today.

[@businessbuzz2]

In fourth grade (1976), all of us had to do a report with an accompanying film. I loved tornadoes, so I did my report on tornadoes, and I asked my teacher to get this film, which she did. We saw it every year and it was Academy Award winning material for us youngun's

[@thefallenmyst]

I like how the video says to lie flat in a ditch, then shows a group of people huddling upright together.

[@terencemccormick8178]

Definitely was shown this in school ca. 1974-75. The images at 5:04 to 5:21 are a particularly vivid memory.

[@elizabethnerviano9761]

So eerie! Awesome vintage footage of these killer twisters.

[@bigdanbear]

Wow, i watched this 40 years ago almost. Still mostly good advice, except the window thing. Get take cover and don't be stupid. I remember watching this and yelling "save the puppy." This got me sent out of the room. The teacher latter told me it was ok to save the puppy, just not to yell it out in class. She gave me a piece of candy and told me I was not in trouble. All these years latter I still remember the puppy and them going into the storm shelter. Good job greatest generation. Thank you

[@robhoffhines630]

I remember the puppy too!! Pretty traumatic for kids in the 60s-70s.

[@billguill1859]

Also, the people who got out of their cars and went down into a ditch didn't lie flat. Tornado winds are said to have higher velocities the higher you go off the ground, that we should lie FLAT in a ditch and not let wind get under us, to lessen the likelihood we would get picked up. Boy, this film is OLD!!!

[@gir6506]

I'm glad I was born in the 2000s

[@billguill1859]

Yep. Good point!!! I saw that too, and was going to say the same thing!!! LIE FLAT!!!

[@CanYouRememberWhen]

You had the signs of a leader, noticing to save the puppy!

[@janetgriffiths3960]

I saw this film with my class in the 5th grade, in Dearborn Heights, MI. in 1967. It was part of our school's tornado awareness program. A couple of weeks after school got out in June of that year, we got to put what we learned to the test. An F2 tornado took roofs off of many houses in our neighborhood, no one was killed, but there were injuries.

[@antoinettemalone2212]

Janet Griffiths F2 Tornado? I sort of remember that one...it was on the afternoon of July 2nd, 1997 when it happened - I was 16 years old then. I was living in Highland Park and I saw the funnel cloud from inside my upstairs bedroom window...IT WAS SCARY!!! Now, almost 20 years later, the "Detroit - Hamtramck - Highland Park F2 Tornado" continues to haunt me; because of the shocking destruction it left in its wake.

[@danielmorse6597]

My ex had family members killed in Hamtramck.

[@janetgriffiths7200]

No, this tornado happened in 1967; I just got out of 5th grade a couple of weeks before. Our house, as well as many others, lost roofs, trees were stripped and damaged, small sheds and outbuildings were destroyed. I've lived in northern AZ since 1970, so I wasn't in MI in 1997.

[@danielmorse6597]

My bad. You are right.

[@davidlafleche1142]

An earthquake is far worse, because nobody can forecast it, and sometimes you can't be prepared for it. (Valdez, 1964.)

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

I remember my dad opening windows when I was growing up in the late 60’s-early 70’s. We (parents and four kids) huddled under the basement stairs, straining to hear updates on a small, static-heavy transistor radio. We had a lot of wicked thunderstorms (blizzards, too) in SW Minnesota. A nearby town was hit by an F5 tornado when I was nine years old. Been fascinated with active weather ever since. 🌪

[@robhoffhines630]

Wow, i remember seeing the puppy at 3:48 as a young kid, this must've run on tv around 1970.

[@arthurweems2839]

Rob Hoffhines probably PBS

[@vinaymulukutla358]

It is so frightening how they show scenes of people running for cover (such as going into basements etc) and that ominous commentary interspersed with a massive tornado on the rampage into their town. More than 50 years on, tornadoes are still one of the most violent weather events and an extreme threat to life and property.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I think that anyone who lost their home or loved one (s) or business would heartily agree with you. (Jan Griffiths).

[@rayner601]

Thanks for sharing this video. This is the same film they showed to us in elementary school, scaring the hell out of us!

[@nhappynerd]

They showed me this film when I was in kindergarten. It scared the crud out of me. I remember the policeman in the yellow rain coat. He reminded me of the policeman that lived a few houses away from me.

[@tazrulz68]

growing up in st louis mo, that siren still makes the hair on my neck stand up

[@Lewis9700]

For some reason this old grainy tornado footage is even more eerie than today's video's

[@Zoomer30]

The whole "open the windows" before a tornado is wrong on many levels: 1. The pressure drop from a tornado is not enough to explode a house. 2. The reality is that the "advice" would end up causing the thing your trying to avoid. Open the windows and you are just letting the wind in, this will increase the air pressure in the house and cause the house to lose its roof . This is another reason why attached garages are so bad in tornado areas. Lose the garage door/lose the house.

[@danielmorse6597]

It was before they knew better. They did not have the science. AT least they tried.

[@ctmjmj]

Thanks for the vintage video! :)

[@wilburmcbride8096]

Can you imagine how many people were killed trying to open all the windows in the house while a tornado was spotted on the ground? I always thought that was a dumb idea.

[@alabamared2568]

I was just looking at that Armstrong steering in that wagon lol..those were the days!!

[@gir6506]

My teachers last name is Mrs. Armstrong

[@colettenasielski8746]

WoW I don't believe this

[@minkyblack]

growing up in CA, we only had duck and cover drills (for the 'atomic' bomb) and the typical fire drills...ahhh the 60's! loved watching this!

[@IanThePeanutsAndSanrioFan]

3:01 I love how they make a joke about saying Bad Advice and that this was when we didn’t know any better Lol it cracks me up

[@LucasVanderBartlett]

this video scares me for some reason its got this scarey quality too it! i dunno i cant explain it!

[@leandar]

Tornado sirens are the same sirens that were used in case of air raid since World War II, if memory serves me right. At this point in time, they weren't available everywhere, just in mostly major populated areas. It was after the 1974 outbreak that the need for sirens pretty much everywhere was recognized and if I remember right through the rest of the 70's and into the 80's, sirens were installed all over and as Doppler radar became available it was placed all over the country as well.

[@danielmorse6597]

Yes, sadly a lot of newer growth areas do NOT have sirens.

[@pkranz937]

The need for sirens today is virtually none. They are for warning those who are outdoors only. Persons inside should be monitoring weather radio or other reliable media. Relying on sirens is a deadly myth - in fact, it was found to be a key factor in the highn number of deaths in the April, 2011 tornadoes in Alabama. Do Not Rely On Sirens.

[@sprintertrueno1985]

Huh no, actually tornado sirens are like 90% of them from after 1945... From the cold war era or after 2000...

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

@@pkranz937 I rely on my weather radio. It's always on, even if there is no severe weather forecast. You never know. (Jan Griffiths).

[@bonnieriffle8371]

This was about seven years before the Xenia F5 tornado outbreak.

[@crispycritterz]

If the tornado decides that your windows should be open, then it WILL open them.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

That's right---leave the windows alone, and get to shelter.

[@jmiller297]

More like *blow them OUT.*

[@freakwilliams]

I remember this Video from my Elementary School days at Rivers Elementary at Altus AFB, back in 1979-80, this film used to scare the hell outta me, now I can watch this and kinda laugh...lol, but still it low key made me fascinated with these storms , now when the Sirens go off im like outside looking for it.

[@philipmancera2505]

2:39 What is above the Chalk Board?

[@colettenasielski8746]

Love this presentation Thank You

[@berth8539]

this stuff is great. Thanks for posting it

[@danielmorse6597]

The part at 3:45 when I was in elementary school we watched this. I screamed out "save the puppy" and everyone laughed. I had to go sit it out in the hall. I went to the cafeteria and had a drink. Thus stating my life as a rebel.

[@shirleyplummer5626]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@arthurweems2839]

Well he lived a good life lol. Since it was 1967, I m sure he's at the rainbow bridge by now.

[@samueldj123]

That's an awesome "film". I remember being in Cub Scouts watching a vid about the Xenia Ohio Tornado. Scared the crap out of me as a kid, though now I'm a severe weather fanatic.

[@billguill1859]

Yep. Been WAAAAAAY too close to three of them. NEVER want to be again!!!

[@loikmg]

That was kind of intense with the tornado scene.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

Was meant to be. Gives the viewers the sense of what it would be like to go through a tornado. They are LOUD!!!! Like the space shuttle taking off on approach, then like 1000 jet engines going over your house. You can scream, but you won't hear it. I went through 2 as a kid, and they were just F2 intensity. Imagine an F5. (Jan Griffiths).

[@FireInvestigator12]

u may have some footage of the oak lawn, il tornado of 1967. Looks like Christ Hospital in the background @ around 6:16 and the squad car prior to that has an illinois sticker on it. Hope that helps...

[@MemphisTiger]

If you take a quick look around the 6:04 mark of the video, you can see an OLD McDonald's building! Don't blink because you will miss it, but it is there!

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

Yep, saw it. There was a Mickey Ds like that in Phoenix (AZ) til the early 2000s. Now it's a modern one.

[@barberjeff67]

I saw that! Too bad they weren't still like that.

[@poetcomic1]

I wouldn't have recognized (back in 1967) the Joplin Tornado and the other mile wide monster multi-vortex wedges even if they were coming at me. We were taught to look for 'funnels'. A classic example would be the Andover tornado when it was filmed approaching the trailer park by police camera - it looked a large expanse of sky touching ground.

[@b3j8]

If you read about the Palm Sunday 1965 tornadoes, at least a couple in Indiana were described as looking like the "entire cloud had lowered to the ground!" They also thought back then that tornado funnels did not move along very fast! The Super Outbreak in 74 changed that idea too!

[@billguill1859]

Same thing was said about the Tri-State Tornado in 1925. No one realized it was a tornado, as it was rain-wrapped, and shrouded in a fog-like cloud bank. Not all tornadoes are funnel-like, either!!!

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I was trained as a spotter in 1970, and learned that tornadoes can take many forms---stovepipe, wedge, rope, and even invisible (no condensation cloud), as well as a funnel. And the multiple vortex monsters too. Tornadoes can change size and shape during their lifetime. (Jan Griffiths).

[@fraank69]

It's hard to believe that's it's been 50 years today since tornado was hit!!!

[@Nicolletta13]

I remember tornado drills in school when I lived in Missouri back in the 80s.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

I had them in school too--as a kid in Michigan in the 60s. (Jan Griffiths).

[@vivians9392]

I remember hurricane drills in Houston back in the 50s. Then, Carla hit us in 1960! Never saw a tornado drill in Houston...

[@guydreamr]

Pretty exciting, actually.

[@RailsChicago]

that McDonald's existed up until about two years ago on Cicero Ave in Oak Lawn, IL when it was rebuilt into a more modern design. My girlfriend lives about two blocks away from it.

[@colettenasielski8746]

Really good Presentation 〽️

[@tomshiba51]

Now they issue a tornado without spotting a funnel cloud, just rotation indicated on doppler.

[@b3j8]

Believe it or not, what you're watching, the radar, various forecasting tools, etc, all were considered state of the art for that era.

[@businessbuzz2]

I know that sucks. I like old school where you had to SEE a funnel cloud or tornado for it to be a real tornado

[@mattrock03]

I wanna say that the last tornado film in the sequence was spawned from a Hurricane. Maybe Beulah from '65 or '66, but not positive.

[@joant1221]

When I was in elementary school (66-72) we would have tornado drills. The teachers would raise the windows before leaving the classroom.

[@janetgriffiths7200]

Opening windows was the norm for the time. Now we know better.

[@zeroair4]

3:56 that cop was like "Get the f@#! down!"

[@dlr11164]

At 6:04 that is an Illinois State Police car going by

[@gir6506]

Eeeeeeeeee, I hope these tornados dont happen anymore. There where some by close where I lived. But that was in Rockford.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

At the same time there is a McDonalds, they way they used to look. (Jan Griffiths).

[@bingobongo445]

Because of the Super Outbreak the tornado warning system has been greatly improved,sadly it took the loss of 300 lives to do that.

[@danielmorse6597]

The technology was still crude and our nations was still rural and suburbanising rapidly. Rember the cold war took a lot of resources. War always does.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

Traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year. Yet we still drive cars. Tornado deaths have been falling since warnings were developed. Joplin was an anomaly. People were too complacent, and didn't pay attention to the watches or warnings. By the time sirens were activated, it was almost too late. (Jan Griffiths).

[@Copper20]

@ctmjmj Yeah my grandmother used to open windows when my mom was a child.

[@Zoomer30]

Tornado forecasting was campy back in the day.

[@Chev427BB]

Was the Scottsbluff tornado an F3? It looks like it from the damage but I'm not sure.

[@tamikotrent1879]

It's an ef4

[@mattalexander8925]

I had a civics teacher back in my early days that would show films like this since he went through that time period, he would talk about how things were done then and talk about how stuff was done in the modern days, I had him in the pre eas years yet that didn't come around until shortly after or just before I got out of school in 2000 I also remember both high school offices had alert boxes that the sheriff's office would set off to warn about hazzards, they still do it as of now but use modern day pagers.

[@Hockeyfan24]

Love this vid

[@RailsChicago]

@gamblelarry95: Thank you for confirming. Please see the comments in part 1 of this video.

[@remainedanonymous8251]

and the propaganda of people remaining calm during a tornado begins... Considering they had a 3-5 min warning.... No records to this day of people crying and screaming my house is gone to this day because WE ARE ALL CALM LMAO

[@maryfigueroa6924]

Chevy Corvair 95

[@ctmjmj]

As I said in another post, pretty good for that time period. Except for opening the windows of couse. Pretty good advice though.

[@ForkliftJoe]

John Forsythe??? (Charlie from Chrlie's Angels)

[@stormsurgeeas9769]

2:32 tbolt 1000

[@Torn80cj]

I'm still amazed that they used to believe the house would explode because of rapid pressure change. Back in the mid 70's I used to argue against that when I was a 5th grader, I would see those film clips in school and say it was the wind blowing those houses apart, but the smart ever intelligent scientists even into the 70's obviously disagreed with me. I get little kick out of it that a future storm chaser would be right when he was in the 5th grade. In my second year now, seen 7 so far.

[@iluvyurbles]

That Heaven for Avaced Radar and Ealry Warning Systems

[@b3j8]

Quite afew folks lost their lives taking that extra time to open a window or two...

[@danielmorse6597]

It was before they knew better. They were trying. The trailer park scenes were especially crucial as many Americans and now more live in trailers. Palm Sunday 1965 many many people died in a trailer park in Elkhart IN for example.

[@ctmjmj]

Tornado season right around the corner for us. :/

[@bretthanna8765]

5:10

[@rnbsteenstar]

You talk about lessening the tornado's impact? Try this on for size! www.naturalbuildingblog.com/2-story-roundhouse-above-survival-shelter/ You can pair the survival shelter with any roundhouse so long as the diameter matches. If it's a 10 meter, you'd need to stretch the survival shelter to match.

[@CanYouRememberWhen]

Thanks, this survival house looks interesting. I can see using the idea, having a house designed combining this with my ideas.

[@rnbsteenstar]

@@CanYouRememberWhen sorry I'm late getting to this! I wonder if we couldn't make this idea into other shapes and sizes too with sandbags filled with Earth and such?

[@Ca2rie59]

It ain't over till the Elephant falls!!!

[@gir6506]

Is this what Belvidere has gone through? In glad I wasn't born during this time. Niether my parents where born in the 60s, they where in Mexico. I feel so bad for the ones who died.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

Yep, Belvidere had an F5 tornado in 1967, as well as Oak Lawn. Both in Illinois. Massive destruction. And it snowed a couple days later. (Jan Griffiths).

[@iluvyurbles]

now we know it Maxmis damge

[@MissMaddy881]

@samueldj123 i heard about that tornado on 'storm stories'.

[@leemunn2098]

🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪 tornado 1967

[@RJARRRPCGP]

I forgot to add that June 10 was the warmest day of 2008 in Vermont. 97 F in Springfield, Vermont. But it stayed sunny for the majority of the day and then just a T-storm.

[@bingobongo445]

If you want to see graphically why you don't waste time opening windows before a twister, watch the movie Places in the Heart when the husband comes running in the house and tells everyone to open the windows.

[@danielmorse6597]

Lol, see the disclaimer.

[@janetgriffiths7200]

Opening windows is a waste of time. Get to shelter. The tornado will open them for you.

[@jmromero6381]

Bringing trash cans, lawn chairs and trikes. Geez.

[@Copper20]

2:32- Look, a thunderbolt siren!

[@maryhaas2111]

I lived through the 1st f 5 tornado ever recorded in Island Lake Illinois 1965. I have made our 8 millimeter in to a DVD. Never before seen out side the family. The Governor of Illinois is there assessing the damage. We moved in 1967 to calif now I'm in wash.I like your video s.☯️

[@Nancy-y8q1n]

Palm Sunday tornado 1965

[@cbtole1]

Hey, I've got an idea! Make your own video instead of scribbling on someone else's production. Ya think?

[@RJARRRPCGP]

Reminds me of June 10, 2008! June 10, 2008 was the warmest day in Vermont and it was 97 F. Because of being almost 100 F, a tornado watch occurred!

[@BostonBackStabber89]

1:03 (out of the blue) Scouts and Scout Ma!

[@jonathandavis2082]

4:37 Black Person!

[@Beauty4Aspies]

@cornell706 I couldn't agree more

[@crooked-halo]

:35 - What's THAT?! What is she DOING?!

[@colonelangus75]

That's a phone. That's how phones worked back in olden times.

[@77PacerStudios]

Yeah, rotary phones! My grandmother actually had phones like this at her house! Better yet, even in the early 1990s, my house still used rotaries!

[@colettenasielski8746]

Man I don’t believe this

[@magicmike5879]

Flying “day-bree” 😆

[@mechipsahoy]

0:48

[@debbieharriman9044]

people were,nice back then .alot different today though

[@djtorule]

RUN RUN! SEXY TIME @ 4:08

[@blpsf1]

Very domesticated looking film. They never took issuing that warning label lightly. Have to wonder if maybe they saw the hook echo on the radar, warnings should have gone out regardless. All that time wasted & those poor first victims.

[@MemphisTiger]

Remember, they weren't knowledgeable enough at the time of this video (1967) to do that. It wasn't until 1973 that the first tornado warning was issued only based on a TVS (Tornado Vorticity Signature) from a radar.

[@billguill1859]

Before 1953, tornado watches and warnings were not issued by the then "Weather Bureau." They believed it would cause too much panic!!! The tornadoes in Flint and Port Huron, MIchigan and then a day or two later in Worcester, Massachusetts (June, 1953) caused the government to re-think their warning systems, entirely!!!

[@215_Philly_4for4]

haha!! bad advice 3:06

[@Torn80cj]

And you probably wouldn't believe that a six year old could play a piano either? Or that some of the greats in music composed songs when they were around that age group. It's not impossible for someone who is 11 or 12 years old to dispute what is being taught in school. I don't take everything "hook, line and sinker." I sure ain't buying into the global warming deal that has so many in a panic. Especially when record lows are still being recorded every year. I have no need to lie on this matter.

[@jmromero6381]

Yeah, like in Colorado 2018 and 2019. Crummy winter.

[@Ratlover121]

That would be scarey to be in,I don't understand how that opening a window is bad beacause it helps u know if the tornado is gettiing closer.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

You don't need a window open to hear a tornado approach. They are loud.

[@ItsthatRedhead798]

Actually you should open your windows. If you don't let the pressure out, your house will blow. If you don't open your windows, pressure from the wind will cause it to explode. Not by gas. By pressure from the wind.

[@douglasgriffiths3534]

There are enough small nooks and crannies in the average house to stabilize pressure without opening windows/doors. An attic vent is a good example. (Jan Griffiths).

[@Fultonfalcons86]

wasn't this part of the super outbreak back in the 50's?

[@jalenstimes7452]

1967. And no, it wasn't a part of the Superoutbreak

[@janetgriffiths7200]

Palm Sunday outbreak was in 1965. The Super Outbreak was in 1974, when a good part of Xenia, Ohio was destroyed.

[@Copper20]

Epic propaganda at its best!

[@jmromero6381]

Yeah, and CNN didn't exist then!

[@quentinquale1694]

Would have been better if the uploader didnt add his own text over part of the video. 🙄

[@bretthanna8765]

3:32

[@bretthanna8765]

4:40

[@mechipsahoy]

3:00