And then the clown forgets to dial-out at the end of the call, and the viewers get stuck at a black screen instead of a meteorologist. Good job, Deputy Dufus.
The criteria for a Tornado Emergency to be issued by the National Weather Service is that a large, violent and destructive tornado has been sighted by either storm spotters, Doppler radar or law enforcement agencies and is moving towards a densely populated area with a high possibility of fatalities or serious injuries resulting from the tornado. The text of the broadcast from the first ever Tornado Emergency being issued by the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK during the May 3, 1999 tornado is extremely sobering and is as follows: "Tornado emergency in South Oklahoma City! At 6:57 PM Central Daylight time, a large tornado was moving along Interstate 44 west of Newcastle. On its present path; this large damaging tornado will enter southwest sections of the Oklahoma City metro area between 7:15 PM and 7:30 PM. Persons in Moore and south Oklahoma City should take immediate tornado precautions! This is an extremely dangerous and life threatening situation! If you are in the path of this large and destructive tornado, take cover immediately! Doppler radar indicated this storm may contain destructive hail up to the size of baseballs, or larger."
@@Max-mw5tmit was a local warning issued by the community instead of the "government" He was rushing to get his message out and accidentally messed up saying "severe tornado warning" because he mixed "severe thunderstorm" and "tornado warning" He even missed the receiver, and accidentally caused it to try to complete another call but it failed because the number wasn't dialed, so it went to a busy signal
Super123456789Kuba Usually when a Local Access Alert is in effect, it doesn't switch back to programming unless the sender punches in a termination code on the number pad. Apparently, this law enforcement officer just hung up, and since television stations are forced to keep an open line for instances like this, there was no activity, hence the off-hook tones. The control room seemed to have no way of disconnecting themselves. I hope that makes sense.
If you listen to it, they are operating from the yukon emergency operations shelter. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC), located inside the City of Yukon Police Department, is the central location where officials from City Government, Law Enforcement, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Volunteer Aid Agencies, and other agencies meet to coordinate response and recovery efforts during a disaster. There was no way of communicating with the TV station since the tornado ripped through half the town, destroying all communication lines.
Actually, aside from a few power outages due to lightning strikes and straight-line winds, Yukon was virtually untouched by the '99 tornado. Most of the damage done was about 20-30 miles southwest of there, and the primary news stations in the OKC metro (KFOR, KOCO, and KWTV) are located on the north side of OKC, well out the way of the larger storm cells. Most likely this was a preemptive alert by local authorities as the inbound storm cell over Union City was in a dead heat toward Yukon at the time, and they didn't want to wait on the EAS to relay information.
Local Access Alerts were somewhat common with analog cable TV back when it was still around. It might still be used in some analog and digital cable TV services. May 26 2019 EDIT: On an unrelated note, I suspect the guy who sent out the message was either new to this whole thing, or simply forgot to key in the EOM.
It sounds absurd, but locals know he means to be toward the center of the house, on the lower level, away from external walls, especially away from windows. Within a neighborhood where some have basements and others don't, they usually have a preset plan to go to a neighbor's basement when there's enough time after an alert.
This is actually really scary. 0:01 - Weather 0:26 - EAS (Local Access Alert) 1:43 - Dial Operator Notice (with dial beep) 2:07 - Phone off the Hook sound 2:54 - Start of Dial Beep tone + Go into Cable Guide 3:05 - Resuming the Dial Beep tone. 3:13 - Resuming Normal Broadcast (the weather)
To me, the EM employee appeared to be starting to say "severe thunderstorm warning" and quickly corrected himself and said "tornado warning," based on the brief gap in his speech after he said "severe".
This is a Local Access Alert. issued only by police departments. They use a phone to takeover cable TV and transmit the alert through the phone. And in this case, the police department screwed up and forgot to punch an "ending number" to close the alert.
@Henrystrikesback That is true, but Local Access Alerts were still relayed at the time, due to such being widely used for analog cable systems and also that the EAS was still an emerging technology.
Probably overheard in a bar sometime later: "So how you'd get fired?" "Well, you know those emergency alert thingies the police interrupt cable television with by using a phone? I manned one and hung up instead of dialing out, and as a result nobody got timely information."
"This is the Yukon Emergency Operations. We are under a Severe, Tornado uh, Warning. Please take shelter to the inside part of your house. This is the Yukon Emergency Operations shelter we are under a Tornado Warning and please take shelter in the center part of your house." (Hangs up the phone without pressing the dial tones for Local Access Alert termination) 35 seconds later, phone trilling, " If you like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your op-" 8 seconds later. "If you like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator." 15 seconds later. Off the hook tone.
The guy did 2 things wrong, 1. Said Severe Tornado Warning, which doesn't even exist, 2. He hung up instead of dialing the number to end the message, causing the stations phone to go crazy.
Local Access Alert: (Yukon, Oklahoma) 0:31-0:47 This is the Yukon, The Emergency Operations. We are under Severe Tornado Warning. Please take shelter to the inside part of your house. This is the Yukon, Emergency Operation Shelter. We are under a Tornado Warning and Please take shelter to the center part of your house.
Does anyone know that man’s name that was doing the emergency alert system. If so, I would like to know. And also, is he still alive? Is there a chance he could be?
I remember on my old YT channel that I said in reply to a comment that I would make 0:25 my ringtone or so. Intent on doing it. Just gotta download the mp3 of this and edit it to make a ringtone. Also, like how Cleatus' forgetfulness gives us a few minutes or so of A E S T E T I C S from the phone sounds.
I can't imagine how bad Hurricane Hugo was when it struck Puerto Rico given how Hugo is mostly associated with the destruction it caused in Charleston, South Carolina.
@@winteroswald Rats... looks like we as a community will have to wait for someone to find it or try finding it ourselves then. Thank you regardless! Hopefully footage of it will turn up someday soon.
I wonder if the man that was talking is still alive today? His voice is interesting, and I wonder if he is still living today, since this was 19 years ago. If anybody knows, please pass along the information. I would like to know.
@Jared DiCarlo i’m not being creepy! I am blind and visually impaired, and I go off of voices, not faces. I am blind and visually impaired, therefore I really like his voice, and just wanted to know that he was still alive. Don’t come at me like that buster. Don’t come at me like that, don’t come at me like that. Don’t come at me like that. Get off my back, don’t mess with me. I am blind and visually impaired. Before you criticize somebody, you find out what they’re all about. Don’t come at me until you get your facts straight bud.
@Jared DiCarlo it is people like you that make it hard for people like us in the blind community. You leave me alone, and you let me live my life. The nerve of you to sit behind your little computer and call me creepy, just because I’m visually impaired, and I happen to like somebody’s voice. How dare you. How dare you, how dare you, how dare you? Why don’t you think about what you say before you say it? And also, close your eyes for 10 minutes, and try to live in my world, and see how it would be. Then, maybe you can try to come at me with your little preaching or whatever you’re trying to do. I don’t like you.
@Jared DiCarlo when you get to heaven, and you have to stand before the Lord in judgment, you be sure and tell him that you criticized a blind man. Then, let’s see what happens to you. How would you like it if you were deaf, and I were talking to you? How would you like it if you didn’t answer me because you could not hear me, and I called you a piece of trash that was just sitting there and ignoring me because he thought he could? Would that make you happy? No, that would offend you. Well Mr. buster, you have offended me, and I don’t like you at all. I pray to God he has mercy on your sick and twisted soul. Don’t you ever criticize me or any other blind and visually impaired person ever again. Do you understand me? You are a terrible terrible person, and the nerve of you to criticize someone with blindness, there’s a special place in hell for you, and I hope that the temperature is hot hot hot hot hot hot hot. You might want to pray and ask God for forgiveness, because he’s the only one who’s gonna forgive you Buster. I sure as heck am not. You better be glad that I don’t know you in person buddy, because I would come after you and charge you with harassment. And, I would make sure that you were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. So, you better thank God that you don’t know me.
@Jared DiCarlo Salty Dog, 3 days ago, @Jared DiCarlo i’m not being creepy! I am blind and visually impaired, and I go off of voices, not faces. I am blind and visually impaired, therefore I really like his voice, and just wanted to know that he was still alive. Don’t come at me like that buster. Don’t come at me like that, don’t come at me like that. Don’t come at me like that. Get off my back, don’t mess with me. I am blind and visually impaired. Before you criticize somebody, you find out what they’re all about. Don’t come at me until you get your facts straight bud.
I was at the end of my eighth grade year and had just returned home earlier than usual from gymnastics that day. My mother had been watching the weather intently and had become understandably worried. I remember thinking on the way home as I observed the sky how incredibly unfriendly it looked. Little did I know what was about to happen. My mother gave me some *Donkey Kong Country* gummies and placed me inside of the hallway closet. I began crying and thought the roof was going to fly right off the top of our house. It was a truly frightening experience for certain.
This was done for a good reason: a tornado was on a collision course with Yukon, Oklahoma on May 3rd, 1999 but ultimately it didn't affect the city. Someone in the comments section of this video explained that Yukon was largely unaffected by the May 3rd tornado outbreak aside from some power outages that resulted from lightning strikes hitting transformers and straight-line winds blowing down power lines. Much of the damage and destruction from the tornado was well off to the south of Yukon in places such as Moore and Del City. This commenter further explained that the three major TV stations in Oklahoma City are located on the north side of the metro area. The coverage in this video is from Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9.
To be fair to the announcer; he was extremely nervous about the possibility of a strong and violent tornado striking Yukon, Oklahoma and most likely wasn't thinking straight. In addition; the May 3rd, 1999 tornado outbreak brought about the term "Tornado Emergency" because the F-5 tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma was moving rapidly towards the Oklahoma City metro area after devastating Bridge Creek and thus posed a considerable threat to millions of lives.
This is the Yukon Emergency Operations, we are under Severe Tornado Warning, please take shelter to the inside part of your house. This is the Yukon Emergency Operations Shelter, we are under a Tornado Warning and please take shelter in the center part of your house.
Hi, would anyone happen to know what the man’s name is that did the announcement here? Or if he is still alive today? If anybody could tell me either of these two things, I would greatly appreciate it.
Tbh not really liking some of the hate being directed towards the guy delivering the override message, even if the comments in question are old. While I do think him not dialing the end code was a pretty glaring mistake considering the severity of the outbreak that day, as far as I know, there isn't much information about the circumstances at the time that I know of. Plus, consider putting yourself in his shoes for a moment: you, as someone who is entrusted to deliver warning information to your town's residents, have been informed in some form that a tornado is likely going to be hitting your town within the coming minutes, and, if I'm not mistaken reading the times and comparing them to other times tornadoes happened that day, one of the towns close to you had just been hit by one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. Even if you're easily able to keep yourself composed, you'd likely no doubt be freaking out at least on an internal level and you'd want to be getting yourself to shelter as soon as possible. While it does look like Yukon was largely spared from the outbreak from my readings and even if the alert process could've been done better, I do still commend the guy for at least getting the warning out to Yukon's residents. Had I been in his position, I likely would have lost it from panic.
I guess I don't get what part of this was scary other than the interrupt tone. The guy bumbling his way through a "severe tornado warning" and telling people to take shelter in the inside part of their house was more embarrassing than anything else.
Along with the attention signal, the screen cutting to black and remaining that way for a while along with some of the phone tones is probably what makes this scary or at least unnerving for some. The outbreak this storm was a part of being devastating and bad enough that it led to the creation of the tornado emergency doesn't help, either.
We had this guide in the Boston area on MediaOne/AT&T/Comcast Scientific-Atlanta 8610 analog boxes from the mid 90s through 2009/2010 when analog cable was discontinued [and by then, very few people had analog cable boxes, they either had a Motorola digital box or an analog TV with a cable tuner built in]. I believe this was a proprietary IPG made by Scientific Atlanta (just like SARA), and not syndicated guide software like I-Guide or Passport. I've found a few "channel surfing" videos with the same program overlays seen on this video, but AFAIK this is the only
WanderingSoul Uh yes...but again...the warning referenced this video produced a small weak tornado. At this point, the F5 had already lifted in eastern Oklahoma county.
0:26 OK, forget the other local access alerts, the tone for this one is 100x scarier.
Certainly scared the shit out of me, as I actually heard the alert in real time while listening to Gary England.
Fucked up EAS
That sound 1970 or 1980 games
*W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U-W-E-U*
And then the clown forgets to dial-out at the end of the call, and the viewers get stuck at a black screen instead of a meteorologist. Good job, Deputy Dufus.
this is the storm that had the first ever TORNADO EMERGENCY alert by the National Weather Service
At that time, they called it a severe tornado warning!
@MrBeást bro shut up
The criteria for a Tornado Emergency to be issued by the National Weather Service is that a large, violent and destructive tornado has been sighted by either storm spotters, Doppler radar or law enforcement agencies and is moving towards a densely populated area with a high possibility of fatalities or serious injuries resulting from the tornado. The text of the broadcast from the first ever Tornado Emergency being issued by the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK during the May 3, 1999 tornado is extremely sobering and is as follows:
"Tornado emergency in South Oklahoma City! At 6:57 PM Central Daylight time, a large tornado was moving along Interstate 44 west of Newcastle. On its present path; this large damaging tornado will enter southwest sections of the Oklahoma City metro area between 7:15 PM and 7:30 PM. Persons in Moore and south Oklahoma City should take immediate tornado precautions! This is an extremely dangerous and life threatening situation! If you are in the path of this large and destructive tornado, take cover immediately! Doppler radar indicated this storm may contain destructive hail up to the size of baseballs, or larger."
@@Max-mw5tmit was a local warning issued by the community instead of the "government"
He was rushing to get his message out and accidentally messed up saying "severe tornado warning" because he mixed "severe thunderstorm" and "tornado warning"
He even missed the receiver, and accidentally caused it to try to complete another call but it failed because the number wasn't dialed, so it went to a busy signal
Super123456789Kuba Usually when a Local Access Alert is in effect, it doesn't switch back to programming unless the sender punches in a termination code on the number pad. Apparently, this law enforcement officer just hung up, and since television stations are forced to keep an open line for instances like this, there was no activity, hence the off-hook tones. The control room seemed to have no way of disconnecting themselves. I hope that makes sense.
It might of been because of a power outage
+SuperDuperBuilderman123 the phones have their own power supply.
Pretty sure Officer Leroy just got excited and forgot. Good old Oklahoma.
If you listen to it, they are operating from the yukon emergency operations shelter. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC), located inside the City of Yukon
Police Department, is the central location where officials from City
Government, Law Enforcement, Fire, Emergency Medical Services, Volunteer
Aid Agencies, and other agencies meet to coordinate response and
recovery efforts during a disaster. There was no way of communicating with the TV station since the tornado ripped through half the town, destroying all communication lines.
Actually, aside from a few power outages due to lightning strikes and straight-line winds, Yukon was virtually untouched by the '99 tornado. Most of the damage done was about 20-30 miles southwest of there, and the primary news stations in the OKC metro (KFOR, KOCO, and KWTV) are located on the north side of OKC, well out the way of the larger storm cells. Most likely this was a preemptive alert by local authorities as the inbound storm cell over Union City was in a dead heat toward Yukon at the time, and they didn't want to wait on the EAS to relay information.
Local Access Alerts were somewhat common with analog cable TV back when it was still around.
It might still be used in some analog and digital cable TV services.
May 26 2019 EDIT: On an unrelated note, I suspect the guy who sent out the message was either new to this whole thing, or simply forgot to key in the EOM.
DanielWS424 Except it has a EAS like screen that says local access alert
Oh hi Fairplay
@@CommodoreJames Oh hello
Hey! I still have analog cable..
The quality is
*C R A P*
Lol. Analog cable is still around
I can't tell which was eerie back on that day, the monster twister or this.
Yet
Same here fellow pony
"Please take shelter to the inside part of your house."
As opposed to my front yard?
Unless if your front yard has a basement, then yes. Opposed to the yard.
It sounds absurd, but locals know he means to be toward the center of the house, on the lower level, away from external walls, especially away from windows. Within a neighborhood where some have basements and others don't, they usually have a preset plan to go to a neighbor's basement when there's enough time after an alert.
@@SpaceTrashCrash that’s good
This is actually really scary.
0:01 - Weather
0:26 - EAS (Local Access Alert)
1:43 - Dial Operator Notice (with dial beep)
2:07 - Phone off the Hook sound
2:54 - Start of Dial Beep tone + Go into Cable Guide
3:05 - Resuming the Dial Beep tone.
3:13 - Resuming Normal Broadcast (the weather)
jelly babies?
1:43 would’ve been fame enough for me to sprint to the shelter.
Lamarr Blocker
Did you live through this storm
I don't know what this channel guide is from.
Yeah, if someone set out to make a scary video, they couldn't do better than this.
To me, the EM employee appeared to be starting to say "severe thunderstorm warning" and quickly corrected himself and said "tornado warning," based on the brief gap in his speech after he said "severe".
Dude, that was eerie as all hell.
I'm with ya! Especially the noise of that SAME header at 0:26
Mrtrainfreak12 That was not a SAME header. Matter of fact, I don't even know what that was. But it scared the hell out of me.
It wasn't?
But JEEBUS was that nightmare fuel! kinda like the one tone for Amber Alerts in Northern Texas 0.0
***** I just realized that kinda sounds like a Fire Alarm. Also scary
OH MY GOD I SAW THAT! TvTropes weren't kidding when they said that sounded like from a horror film!
This is not the EAS. This is Local Access Alert.
Galactipod It was EBS/EAS back then.
This is a Local Access Alert. issued only by police departments. They use a phone to takeover cable TV and transmit the alert through the phone. And in this case, the police department screwed up and forgot to punch an "ending number" to close the alert.
@Henrystrikesback That is true, but Local Access Alerts were still relayed at the time, due to such being widely used for analog cable systems and also that the EAS was still an emerging technology.
This is not the EAS, this is a tribute
Spiffycaius late 2000s
If I saw this live as a kid, I 100% would've started sobbing
*IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE A CALL, PLEASE HANG UP AND TRY AGAIN.*
*IF YOU NEED HELP, HANG UP AND THEN DIAL YOUR OPERATOR*
0:26. Sweet dreams....
Probably overheard in a bar sometime later:
"So how you'd get fired?"
"Well, you know those emergency alert thingies the police interrupt cable television with by using a phone? I manned one and hung up instead of dialing out, and as a result nobody got timely information."
"This is the Yukon Emergency Operations. We are under a
Severe, Tornado uh, Warning. Please take shelter to the inside part of your house. This is the Yukon Emergency Operations shelter we are under a Tornado Warning and please take shelter in the center part of your house." (Hangs up the phone without pressing the dial tones for Local Access Alert termination)
35 seconds later, phone trilling, " If you like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your op-"
8 seconds later. "If you like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator."
15 seconds later. Off the hook tone.
0:26
Current Objective:
*SURVIVE*
"If You Like To Make A Call, Please Hang Up And Try Again."
"If You Need Help, Hang Up And Then Dial Your Operator."
The guy did 2 things wrong, 1. Said Severe Tornado Warning, which doesn't even exist, 2. He hung up instead of dialing the number to end the message, causing the stations phone to go crazy.
It didn't exist because it was just invented that day.
Austin Guillen That's all they had back then. Tornado emergency hadn't been coined.
If they wanted people to pay attention, they just needed to call it "God's Super Murder Wind".
Tornado Emergencies didn’t exist yet, that was the only thing he could come up with on the spot
it's just atlas
This Tornado Outbreak was the beginning of the Term Tornado Emergency
WEE OO WEE OO WEE OO!
I thought it heard like *OOO WEEP OOO WEEP OOO WEEP*
*0:26*
xD
I found this on a montage of the most eerie warnings ever aired, glad I found the full clip.
0:26 sounds like an 8-bit sound effect being played in a loop.
It sounds like the timer warning from Katamari Damacy
Because it is I’m pretty sure that was a dial up tone
Scariest part was at 2:06 because it was dial-up.
No,it was the off the hook sound
No it reminds me of the gta online lock on sound from the homing launcher
Crazy how this is 20 years old today...
0:26 if that happened on my TV, im out 💀
ikr
*IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A CALL...*
*IF YOU NEED HELP*
*P L E A S E H A N G U P A N D D I A L Y O U R O P E R A T O R*
*BEEP x212*
C A L L A G A I N L A G E R
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Scary alert noise and how it got fucked up afterwards with just a black screen and the dial tone
20 year anniversary of one of the biggest, most destructive, and most infamous tornadoes in history
You mean 22nd anaversery
@@whitty2989 you're late bud
24
Now it's been twenty-five years since this nightmare in Oklahoma.
such a rare emergency but i think they used it because they needed something fast
What was up with the phone noises?
He forgot to disconnect the line
The Officer who made the Local Access Alert Call didnt pressed 9 and instead hanged up the line...
it's not the tone that's creepy, it's the fact that it fails to return
Local Access Alert: (Yukon, Oklahoma) 0:31-0:47
This is the Yukon, The Emergency Operations. We are under Severe Tornado Warning. Please take shelter to the inside part of your house.
This is the Yukon, Emergency Operation Shelter. We are under a Tornado Warning and Please take shelter to the center part of your house.
Somebody done fucked up.
I renember the same day i saw this,the power went out at night. I was so freaked out and in shock
Does anyone know that man’s name that was doing the emergency alert system. If so, I would like to know. And also, is he still alive? Is there a chance he could be?
Happy 20th anniversary to Oklahoma has tornado. Sorry about that I was late because I forgot last Friday.
I remember on my old YT channel that I said in reply to a comment that I would make 0:25 my ringtone or so.
Intent on doing it. Just gotta download the mp3 of this and edit it to make a ringtone.
Also, like how Cleatus' forgetfulness gives us a few minutes or so of A E S T E T I C S from the phone sounds.
That looks similar to a strange local access alert in Puerto Rico. This is what happens during Hurricane Hugo
I can't imagine how bad Hurricane Hugo was when it struck Puerto Rico given how Hugo is mostly associated with the destruction it caused in Charleston, South Carolina.
Do you have a link to it or otherwise have footage of the Puerto Rico system in action?
@@CEASeFireProductions2K So hey! This system in Puerto Rico is considered lost media where people could find in the future
@@winteroswald Rats... looks like we as a community will have to wait for someone to find it or try finding it ourselves then. Thank you regardless! Hopefully footage of it will turn up someday soon.
This activation was believed to be very first tornado emergency.
I wonder if the man that was talking is still alive today? His voice is interesting, and I wonder if he is still living today, since this was 19 years ago. If anybody knows, please pass along the information. I would like to know.
@Jared DiCarlo i’m not being creepy! I am blind and visually impaired, and I go off of voices, not faces. I am blind and visually impaired, therefore I really like his voice, and just wanted to know that he was still alive. Don’t come at me like that buster. Don’t come at me like that, don’t come at me like that. Don’t come at me like that. Get off my back, don’t mess with me. I am blind and visually impaired. Before you criticize somebody, you find out what they’re all about. Don’t come at me until you get your facts straight bud.
@Jared DiCarlo it is people like you that make it hard for people like us in the blind community. You leave me alone, and you let me live my life. The nerve of you to sit behind your little computer and call me creepy, just because I’m visually impaired, and I happen to like somebody’s voice. How dare you. How dare you, how dare you, how dare you? Why don’t you think about what you say before you say it? And also, close your eyes for 10 minutes, and try to live in my world, and see how it would be. Then, maybe you can try to come at me with your little preaching or whatever you’re trying to do. I don’t like you.
@Jared DiCarlo when you get to heaven, and you have to stand before the Lord in judgment, you be sure and tell him that you criticized a blind man. Then, let’s see what happens to you. How would you like it if you were deaf, and I were talking to you? How would you like it if you didn’t answer me because you could not hear me, and I called you a piece of trash that was just sitting there and ignoring me because he thought he could? Would that make you happy? No, that would offend you. Well Mr. buster, you have offended me, and I don’t like you at all. I pray to God he has mercy on your sick and twisted soul. Don’t you ever criticize me or any other blind and visually impaired person ever again. Do you understand me? You are a terrible terrible person, and the nerve of you to criticize someone with blindness, there’s a special place in hell for you, and I hope that the temperature is hot hot hot hot hot hot hot. You might want to pray and ask God for forgiveness, because he’s the only one who’s gonna forgive you Buster. I sure as heck am not. You better be glad that I don’t know you in person buddy, because I would come after you and charge you with harassment. And, I would make sure that you were prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law possible. So, you better thank God that you don’t know me.
@Jared DiCarlo Salty Dog, 3 days ago, @Jared DiCarlo i’m not being creepy! I am blind and visually impaired, and I go off of voices, not faces. I am blind and visually impaired, therefore I really like his voice, and just wanted to know that he was still alive. Don’t come at me like that buster. Don’t come at me like that, don’t come at me like that. Don’t come at me like that. Get off my back, don’t mess with me. I am blind and visually impaired. Before you criticize somebody, you find out what they’re all about. Don’t come at me until you get your facts straight bud.
it makes this more distressing because the phone lines disconnected due to the tornado and you can hear the tone
imagine watching this, and then suddenly 0:27 comes on, scares the shit outta you! am i right, i mean 0:26
The 90s channel guide is amazing
Upload the entire tape somewhere.
They had this event In 1999, 2013 and 2016!
*2013 actually
Oh, I was a year off. Thanks, man.
This Local Access Alert Aired 2 Days After SpongeBob Squarepants Aired It's First Episode Back In 1999
@Henrystrikesback July 16th, 1999; to be precise.
I was at the end of my eighth grade year and had just returned home earlier than usual from gymnastics that day.
My mother had been watching the weather intently and had become understandably worried.
I remember thinking on the way home as I observed the sky how incredibly unfriendly it looked.
Little did I know what was about to happen. My mother gave me some *Donkey Kong Country* gummies and placed me inside of the hallway closet.
I began crying and thought the roof was going to fly right off the top of our house. It was a truly frightening experience for certain.
“‘I repeat this is a tornado warning from the Yukon Emergency Operations Center’ all done warning everyone, imma go order a pizza”
0:27 Almost 25 years ago, this LAA scarred Oklahomans.
It makes no sense to interrupt a news/weather channel that shows live coverage of this tornado event
This was done for a good reason: a tornado was on a collision course with Yukon, Oklahoma on May 3rd, 1999 but ultimately it didn't affect the city. Someone in the comments section of this video explained that Yukon was largely unaffected by the May 3rd tornado outbreak aside from some power outages that resulted from lightning strikes hitting transformers and straight-line winds blowing down power lines. Much of the damage and destruction from the tornado was well off to the south of Yukon in places such as Moore and Del City. This commenter further explained that the three major TV stations in Oklahoma City are located on the north side of the metro area. The coverage in this video is from Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9.
chris chan really on the weather channel spotting tornadoes
Does anyone know whether or not the man doing the announcement is still alive?
Severe uh tornado warning
It's about 10 years.
Finally found it there my best part
Imagine this, you are watching your favorite show on a Saturday morning, and suddenly 0:26.
0:26 I would sh*t my pants if I heard that at 3:00 AM.
A severe tornado warning was probably what is now called a tornado emergency.
AHEM, a "Severe Tornado Warning" does not exist. There is only Tornado watches, warnings, and emergencies. USE THE REAL ONES!
To be fair to the announcer; he was extremely nervous about the possibility of a strong and violent tornado striking Yukon, Oklahoma and most likely wasn't thinking straight. In addition; the May 3rd, 1999 tornado outbreak brought about the term "Tornado Emergency" because the F-5 tornado which struck Moore, Oklahoma was moving rapidly towards the Oklahoma City metro area after devastating Bridge Creek and thus posed a considerable threat to millions of lives.
This is the Yukon Emergency Operations, we are under Severe Tornado Warning, please take shelter to the inside part of your house. This is the Yukon Emergency Operations Shelter, we are under a Tornado Warning and please take shelter in the center part of your house.
The first ever Tornado EMERGENCY
This is the scariest Local Access Alert to date.
March 2, 2012 in Putnam County, TN says hi
@@beckybecky125 January 11, 1999 in South Dayton, Ohio says Bonjour!
@@AJHomeVideo got me there I literally just watched that one
0:26 that sound is groovy but scary 😂
Hey Cletus! Hang up the phone!!! 😂😂😂
he must've forgotten to dial out the alert, or hang up his handset, after initiating the alert...
This so scary i cant belive how old this is
I wonder if Tulsa has a local access eas...
0:33 He thought it was for a severe thunderstorm, but realized it was a tornado warning.
Exactly what it seems, notice how he doesn't say severe tornado warning on the second time
Yep
Hi, would anyone happen to know what the man’s name is that did the announcement here? Or if he is still alive today? If anybody could tell me either of these two things, I would greatly appreciate it.
0:26 aliens trying to FaceTime
Tbh not really liking some of the hate being directed towards the guy delivering the override message, even if the comments in question are old. While I do think him not dialing the end code was a pretty glaring mistake considering the severity of the outbreak that day, as far as I know, there isn't much information about the circumstances at the time that I know of. Plus, consider putting yourself in his shoes for a moment: you, as someone who is entrusted to deliver warning information to your town's residents, have been informed in some form that a tornado is likely going to be hitting your town within the coming minutes, and, if I'm not mistaken reading the times and comparing them to other times tornadoes happened that day, one of the towns close to you had just been hit by one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. Even if you're easily able to keep yourself composed, you'd likely no doubt be freaking out at least on an internal level and you'd want to be getting yourself to shelter as soon as possible. While it does look like Yukon was largely spared from the outbreak from my readings and even if the alert process could've been done better, I do still commend the guy for at least getting the warning out to Yukon's residents. Had I been in his position, I likely would have lost it from panic.
3:05 this part is scary because u don’t know when it starts that dial sound
He sounds so chill
The Eas is black
And was that a phone Call?!
What channel was this on?
KWTV Channel 9; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
I guess I don't get what part of this was scary other than the interrupt tone. The guy bumbling his way through a "severe tornado warning" and telling people to take shelter in the inside part of their house was more embarrassing than anything else.
Along with the attention signal, the screen cutting to black and remaining that way for a while along with some of the phone tones is probably what makes this scary or at least unnerving for some. The outbreak this storm was a part of being devastating and bad enough that it led to the creation of the tornado emergency doesn't help, either.
that's the EAS in the 90s guys
This television was controlling dial phone?!
2:52 also I can't be able to find this type of guide.
@@cheezycool01 I though in 2015 it was but it wasn't. It's just a guide for small cable company.
We had this guide in the Boston area on MediaOne/AT&T/Comcast Scientific-Atlanta 8610 analog boxes from the mid 90s through 2009/2010 when analog cable was discontinued [and by then, very few people had analog cable boxes, they either had a Motorola digital box or an analog TV with a cable tuner built in].
I believe this was a proprietary IPG made by Scientific Atlanta (just like SARA), and not syndicated guide software like I-Guide or Passport. I've found a few "channel surfing" videos with the same program overlays seen on this video, but AFAIK this is the only
The attention signal reminds me of the siren on Atari Missile Command
PATRICK WHAT THE HELL YOU SCARED EVERYONE WITH YOUR WEEE WOING
I wouldn't have chosen to interrupt a majorly important news broadcast for that. The news casters could've sufficed imo
This is an emergency override system
1:24: JUST HANG UP THE FUCKING PHONE ALREADY!!!
this occured on my grampas 59th bday
he’s a taurus than
The funniest Local access alert ever. 1:25-1:55
1:43 I’m here because of Weird Al’s Albuquerque
2:06 helicopter got shot?
21 years ago today.
so is it Yukon or Oklahoma?
Yes
Was it an F5?!
Yep.
peaceguitarkid No...the particular storm referenced here produced a small weak tornado.
Erick Church Well, there was a tornado on May 3rd, 1999 that is rated as a minimal F5.
WanderingSoul Uh yes...but again...the warning referenced this video produced a small weak tornado. At this point, the F5 had already lifted in eastern Oklahoma county.
Erick Church Ok then.
Just black. With no text.
Who made this?
its actually supposed to be white static but the user is using a cable box which causes it to be black
He just hung up the phone lol
I heat it 2:07 3:05
0:26 *cue viewer mail time*
severe tornado uh warning
“Pew-wap-pew-wap-pew-wap-pew-wap-pew”
That is a scary siren
2:07 PULL UP. PULL UP. PULL UP. PULL UP.
Idk why but the tone is funny and scary
2:05 and 1:24 FAIL
They use windows nt 4 I think
That noise would've made me piss myself.
HEY CLETUS!!!!! GET OFF THE DAMN PHONE!!!!!