Piedmont, Oklahoma Tornado 4-30-1978
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- April 30, 2019 will be the 41th anniversary of the first tornado ever captured on a portable video tape recorder. I wonder what the same video would look like if recorded on today's high tech HD camcorders. This was recorded by a chase team from The National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma.
I was there! I was at the YMCA on Rockwell Avenue Oklahoma City, OK - it went right past us! F4! Tornado moved ENE from 2 miles S of Piedmont to 9 miles WNW of Edmond, Large objects, such as oil storage tanks, cars, and stock feeders, were picked up and carried up to a half mile. The damage path was at least a mile wide throughout its life cycle. [Path width 1mi, length 8mi]
The videographer needs a tripod because he's going to collapse under the weight of the old video camera.
Gotta love that old vidicon tube quality. Really great video, I just wish we knew who shot it. In TVC I they said it was an NSSL chaser, but that was it.
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Is this the first video of a tornado on a personal camcorder with sound? I know video cameras have existed for much longer than this, but this is one of the oldest I've seen of a tornado with sound.
The Wichita Falls tornado in 1964 was filmed by TV station KAUZ using Kinescope (live TV signal direct to film), which was the halfway point between film and videotape. Also, during the 1974 super outbreak, a news cameraman got footage of a tornado passing through downtown Louisville KY. Not sure what process that was though. What I have seen looks like color 16mm film though it may have been videotape.
My info was from another upload of the KAUZ footage, which states the footage was live and recorded by the station via Kinescope process. Since it was in B&W and not that great of a quality I had no reason to doubt.
Also I was under the impression Quad format was color, and didn't enter the market until sometime between 1966 and '68 (using color video coverage of the '68 presidential campaigns as a mile post).
Yes, color quad was released around 1965-66; but the format first appeared in the late 1950's, and was a giant leap forward from Kinescope. My information was from another KAUZ employee. The copy of the entire event I have from the station was from a direct duplication from the reel per the National Severe Storms Laboratory library. Not a huge issue whatsoever, as there very well may be Kinescope copies floating around.
Where was this video taken,were you in Piedmont.
Can you find the full news report on the Fargo, North Dakota tornado from 1957?
Beautiful structure
So what was so special about recording it on video tape versus all the other formats it had been recorded on for decades before this?
Prior to the mid 70's tornado movies were (mostly) done with film cameras. Analog video had been around since the 1940's, but the cameras were very heavy (3 - 400lbs) and did not have the capacity to record except through the Kinescope process. By the mid 70's videotape recording / playback equipment had become available and was cheap and rugged enough for storm chasing use. The cameras were still very large and heavy, though.
Whether this particular clip is THE first tornado captured on videotape may be open to debate but if it isn't it's one of the first.