March 28, 2000: Live News Coverage of Downtown Ft. Worth and Arlington Tornadoes
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- There were a total of ten tornadoes on this day, but the Downtown Ft. Worth and South Arlington/Grand Prairie ones were rated as F3, so they're the focus here. This video is local live news coverage as both tornadoes were happening and their aftermath. Most of the coverage is from NBC5, but there's also some from WFAA and CBS11. There are also several raw interviews with a whole bunch of people talking about what they were doing, what they saw and heard, etc. Unfortunately, the outbreak resulted in five fatalities.
Anecdote: I wasn't in Arlington at this time; I was at SMU (Southern Methodist University) coming back to my dorm from class. I turned on my TV, stared at the screen for about a minute due to the shock of seeing a tornado live on the air, grabbed a tape, and started recording.
1:03-1:17 and 7:58-8:09 - Jane McGarry is audibly upset (understandably) as the tornado approaches the station.
10:55-11:03 - Please bring Suzel inside.
17:37-18:38 - 😂😂😂
1:04:32-1:05:51 - No, not the one from "Chesapeake Shores."
David Fenfrock was my favorite weather man. I was. I was a young mother 24yo when this happened. I waa born and raised in Fort Worth. I had moved 30 minutes south to a small town named Joshua. Watched this live on TV worryingly. My daughters aunt was in the Bank1 building. Luckily she was safe!
Grew up in Joshua, I remember watching this live, I was only 5 and it was the first time I had seen tornadoes and the damage they can do, and it started a fascination that hasn't stopped. Wanting to be a meteorologist, and if I could be even 10% of the meteorologist David Finfrock is/was, I'd be more than happy, what a local legend.
I remember when this happened. Incredible y’all found this
Growing up in DFW in the 90s and 2000s if David Finfrock was doing the weather coverage you best listen.
I lived in Arlington during this storm but was too young to remember it. My dad was driving home at the time, and noticed it was very windy out when he stopped to get gas. When he got home, he found my mom sheltered in our bathroom with my sibling and me. Apparently he was very nonchallant about the whole thing, calling the tornado "that little wind." We moved to Maryland less than a year after this storm.
Even tho I don't remember this storm, I did later get to see exactly how nonchallant my dad is about tornados a few weeks ago when there was a major tornado outbreak here in Maryland. My dad drove home from work right thru the path of the most powerful cell, passing right in front of it as it produced a tornado. My mother and I called him multiple times that night to make sure he was ok, and he was really way too calm about the situation. He got home safe thankfully.
I remember this like it was yesterday! I actually watched both the KXAS Ch 5 broadcast and the WFAA Ch. 8 broadcasts during the storm. Both WFAA and KXAS had the best weather team and doppler radars.
I had no ideal KTVT CBS 11 was danger when the tornado hit Ft. Worth. The reason why I said that because KTVT studios is at 5233 Bridge St in Ft Worth. Oakland is the next major intersection near KTVT. And the old KXAS NBC 5 Broadcast Hill Studios is very close to I-30 and Oakland and KTVT
I was in Downtown Fort Worth just before it hit. Thankfully I was just passing through. Nobody that knew me was able to get in touch with me so I ended up on the Red Cross's Missing persons list.
I was about 8 years old when this happend Me any my family watched this live at the time Thanks for the upload. Now we can look back and watch the coverage. It was a Wild Evening. Thankfully it did not hot our house but God Bless the ones that were not so lucky. I enjoyed the video.😀
I was 11 when it happened and I lived in Fort Worth at the time and I didn’t think it was so bad until I saw all the all debris. That really got me scared. I had one of those portable TVs at the Time ( Portable TVs came out in the 80s Or 90s) and it was showing THIS VERY NEWS REPORT and that’s when the power went out and I REALLY GOT SCARED I started crying. Me and my mother were down in the bathtub because the tornado was a mile away. Power lines were tipping over, Debris was everywhere, It was the First time I experienced a tornado with my own eyes. I am now 32 and every time I watch this video, I think back to that Fateful Evening. It still haunts me to this Very day. Man what a evening that was.
@@Cedricisbadass yes it was a scary evening. My power went out only for a second then came back on. I just happen to be lucky to have power. The entire time.😎
I was 9 years old when this happened. I was born and raised in a small town called Bedford Tx in Tarrant County, I remember this storm vividly. I was so scared as a kid.
I truly never forget that day looking at this it's like I'm reliving it this is incredible scary sad but incredible
We must thank David Frinfrock for this
The late, great Harold Taft picked the right man for the job.
This happened four days after I turned 18, living in Ellis County (Texas) at the time. I remember watching David Finfrock's coverage and being horrified by the whole thing.
I was very familiar with the Downtown Nashville, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Miami, Atlanta, and Fort Worth tornadoes my whole life.. it gives you an idea that urban populated areas and central business districts can be hit by tornadoes without no warning. That's what makes it extremely dangerous and difficult for people to see tornadoes
Do you have severe weather coverage from the late 80s and early 90s?
I don't, I'm sorry. I think this is the first one I ever recorded.
I was a 14 day old baby when the tornado touchdown in fact i was living near the montgomery street when the tornado moved thru west 7th into the heart of the city good thing i survived with my mother siblings along with my godmother my father was at work but he was in shelter thank God we all survived no injuries but 5 lives gone during this tradgedy 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
31:00 Matlock and Bardin was the exact location i was at when this happened. I lived in a house in that neighborhood off the cul-de-sac. I was only 9 years old.
It’s broadcasting NBC five wfaa eight and CBS 11
Until March of this year (2022), this was the closest I had ever been to a tornado.
Same! Then the one hit in cleburne close to the lime plant. Thats closer to me than fort worth. But it was in the state park, so it didnt do near the damage this one did....😢
@@chesalasanderson7989 I even had a second tornado "close call" in 2022, on the morning of December 13, 2022. That was probably the scariest moment, tornado-wise, for my family and myself since March 28, 2000; you don't expect tornadoes in the morning, especially during meteorological winter! I had stayed up that morning from about 4am onwards, because I noticed a flurry of tornado warnings going up to my west.
I remember eating broccoli with Lipton ice tea on a red tray when I was 9 and see all the hail outside.
I’m starting to think I’m a tornado magnet. I remember seeing the Arlington tornado as a kid in the rear view driving with my dad to Grand Prairie. I was so terrified.
I moved to Florida and was driving through severe weather at night when a NWS announcement came on the radio saying there was a tornado at the same intersection I was at. I decided to stay on the highway which was a bad idea. I had to stop and my truck shook while I got pounded with hail but it was dark so I didn’t know where that tornado was.
Years later I moved back to DFW and was at the community college. I watched the tornado cross 20. Not long after that I was driving when another tornado hit Arlington and drove the opposite way instead of heading home. It hit Bell across the highway from my apartment so I would have drove right into it.
Then I just moved to south Texas and a week later had a tornado hit two blocks from me last year. They don’t have sirens here (because they never get tornados they say) and the radar was down. I knew to take cover though.
Anyways I’m starting to think I’m the problem.
I 5 year old when this happen i remember the sky so dark where i live
17:01 the beams from that billboard are still there today, bent over as a reminder. There’s a mural painted on a wall as well.
Yep I know where they are th
ere on Rosedale/303 across from power plant in handly neighborhood
I have been terrified of tornadoes (lilasphobia) for as long as I can remember. Even during siren tests or drills at school I’d shake and bawl my eyes out, and sometimes even throw up. Of course tornadoes are scary, but I never understood why I was SO scared of them until my mom told me that we had been caught in this tornado when I was a young child. My mom said were in the car line at a bank when it happened and she unbuckled me, put me in the floorboard, and laid over me as I panicked until it was over. Either I was too young to really remember or I blocked it from my mind, but she thinks that’s where my phobia stems from.
Double Doppler 5 was a Collins radar. Before their million watt unit
I was born in this day in Tarrant. My mom told me they rushed all the women and babies on the floor into the hall way. Right when it hit very VERY close to the hospital, my mom told me “you popped out just like a car was sucked into the damn thing!”
I was literally born in a tornado.
Happy birthday!
I love videos all weather. Thank you for the upload.
You're welcome!
I lived in Springtown at that time, near Jacksbrough Hwy, in a mobile home. We had a shelter thank God. It caused $5000 dollars of hail damage.
What was the population then?
I remember watching this
Wow I was 14 days old when the tornado touchdown in Fort Worth in fact my mom my brother and my two sisters witnessed the tornado and my dad was at his job and we live somewhere close to west 7th Street near university drive and camp Bowie boulevard when the tornado ran through the city
I remember this like yesterday. I was in 5th grade.
My 1st time seeing a tornado that day..
Me too...I was 24 at the time.
Was one? Of these downtown skyline bank tower have to be taken down? Or was it remodel? by the damage from this tornado
They were going to demolish the Bank One tower, but they ended up being able to convert it into condos. It's called "The Tower" now.
@@VHSWxVids76011 it's surreal. I'm looking at The Tower now and I can't believe it wouldn't have been here in an alternate timeline.
I was working at a hotel right by six flags. scary night.
What year was this
March 28, 2000
@@mmabagain what year tho
@@keyverrse he said the year, 2000
@@octaviuseugeneraymond5493 I’m not understanding
At 9:53 you until that the building on the left of the screen was f***** up
Ngl I was a nerdy little gay kid who thought Finfrock was cute 😅
I definitely become very acquainted with his voice over the years.
If you think this one was bad. You should see the one on May 3 1999
You talking about the Oklahoma one? I was in school here in Fort Worth and remember hearing about it on the news. We were in class looking it up on the internet and it blew our minds. It was larger than this for sure, but I think this was the first tornado documented in modern times to slam into the heart of a downtown city with high rise buildings. Which is why everybody made a big deal out of this even though "only" 5 people lost their lives. I know the Oklahoma one was massively wide and far more people lost their lives.
@@BFKAnthony817 Salt Lake City had a very rare tornado hit their downtown the year prior (1999), and I believe it did hit some skyscrapers. April 16, 1998 had a tornado go through the northern part of downtown Nashville. There was also the 1997 Miami tornado, which actually missed downtown Miami's skyscrapers but did create a very frightening (and well-documented for the time) scene.
There's this list compiled on Wikipedia, but many of these didn't actually hit a skyscraper district: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornadoes_striking_downtown_areas_of_large_cities
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has a more-refined list: www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/downtown.html
Veey similar to the Nashville tornadoes of 1997 or 1998
Until March of this year 2023 March 16 I just got Hail storm
56:30 All the damage with skyscrapers right in the middle of a urban center. And he says he works for the "FBI" it's almost like a pre 9/11 . That will happen year and a half from this event. Creppy.