Famous Tornado Photos - Backstories and Locations

Today we're checking out some classic tornado pics. Thanks so much for watching and subscribe for more tornado and science content!

Content:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Fred's Lightning
3:26 Twister Movie Tornado
6:35 Dead Man Walking Tornado Photo
7:51 Tornado Girl
9:20 Palm Sunday Double Tornado
12:15 Swirling Barn Tornado
13:11 Scary Car Tornado

Links to videos:
Ancient Air Theatre - Friona to Dimmitt, Texas Tornadoes, June 2, 1995

Señor Onion’s Archives - Tornado Near Miami, Texas, May 28, 1994

Ancient Air Theatre - Pampa, Texas Tornado, June 8, 1995

Music by Epidemic Sounds and Falling Forever

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[TornadoSponge]

Oh man, the iconic tornado pictures. It was pictures like these that captured my interest in tornadoes before YouTube.

[TornadoSponge]

One photo I think you forgot to mention was the Xenia Ohio tornado of 1974. There’s a picture where you can see the tornado up close destroying a neighborhood with a parking lot in the foreground. That photo captured my interest as a child, and years later, I tracked down the location on Street View. It was just interesting to see.

[haileyrosemiller]

Never gonna say no to a part 2! I thought I knew tornadoes pretty well, but some of these I've never seen! Great work, as always! 😊

[axelcordova]

This man is reigniting my fascination with tornadoes.

[duh_phantom]

0:04 Oh man when I was growing up I was so in to tornadoes and lightning and I always saw this photo everywhere.

[BoebieBaby]

The Tornado Girl photo is so good. Just a massive tornado tearing up the land and the girl is just standing there nonchalantly. For some reason it gives me a melancholic feeling whenever I look at it. A part 2 would be sick btw

[nerdvnce]

I’ve met Paul with my great grandma when I was younger. She survived with my ggpa and their three kids in a mobile home and she never stopped telling that story. I never knew he took that picture!

[RojoFern]

The foreground buildings in Faidley's shots of the Miami tornado do exist. Faidley paralled the tornado moving south on Highway 70 until reaching Antelope Hills Rd where he turned off to get his final few photos. The trees obscuring the building in the photo are actually about halfway between the shot location and the building behind it, which is at the very end of the road. They surround a small pond, which ironically means if the Dodge in the poster were actually placed there, it'd be submerged in water.
(After rechecking, it appears the pond was actually quite temporary, as it did not exist prior to 2019 and has also since dried up. Faidley alternatively then could have stopped at these trees instead, but it's difficult to tell).

[Canada_Dominium]

The photo "Palm Sunday Tornado" is the winner. An amazing, daring snapshot of awesome natural violence.

[RikkiSpanish]

Yes, please do a part two! Thank you for giving us the details on the first photo. I have been trying to find out more about that photo for years. The most information I could get was that it was a waterspout in Florida. Nighttime tornadoes are one of my greatest fears, so that picture creeps me out.

[krisandketo]

I for one would indeed enjoy a part 2.

Also, I'm a survivor of the 1994 F4 Lancaster/Hutchens tornado, and I would love to see a video that features this tornado. Thanks!

[IsabellaGranger]

The Whirlwind in lighting photo was used as the cover of the Weather book that got me interested in tornadoes as a child, so I remember it pretty well 😍

[jesusseesyou]

I grew up in Goshen and my family currently runs a hair salon inside that white building. It is still there right off of 33.

[nawizalihonde]

The double tornado picture always fascinated me as a kid.

[Deadpandemiccomics]

This guy is awesome, this guy hits so many buttons in my brain somehow for nostalgia of the 90's storms, I know weird but you get it

[zyrtor]

As a trained historian, you impress me Swegle. I would not be surprised if you have a degree in history.

[Carstuff]

See, now you are digging into pictures from my teenage years. Learning the backstories of these pictures means as much to me as when I learned the backstories of the pictures in my history books, both the history and the making of the actual paintings. And I was truly honored to see some of those very paintings in real life recently. That was a huge bucket list moment. Sorry, kind of thing has always fascinated me.

[SlapStyleAnims]

These tornado images were part of my childhood. I really appreciate you diving into them😌

[HalloweenHalpin]

Keep the content coming! I’m 36 and I’ve been obsessed with tornadoes since the mid nineties when Twister made storm chasing a mainstream topic of discussion. Every time I see you’ve uploaded a new video I watch it immediately.

I live in Illinois so I’d love to see you do a deep dive on the infamous Tri State Tornado of March 18th, 1925. I feel like there’s limited information out there but maybe you can unearth some info that many people don’t know about, including myself.

Anyways, keep up the excellent work, good sir.

[notatimelord]

I live near where the Midway Dunlap tornado was captured and my grandparents remember that day, it was hot and humid the sky turned dark and they remember the damage caused by the the 2 tornadoes that hit that day