You're completely right. I live in central mass and we get warnings every year but no one ever goes to the basement because we assume nothing will happen.
Heard about this here in Atlanta. I grew up in Springfield. When I saw this on tv I couldn't believe it. The next time I visited after the tornado, I saw all the open areas down Parker St that were dense trees back in the 70's. Broke my heart!
I was an hour east of Springfield and the storms were bad even where we were, outside of Boston. The wind was insane and there were constant flashes of lightening. We had our bunnies ready in their carrier to run down to the basement. We aren't used to this in Mass and aren't prepared.
And that's the problem. People in Mass don't take the warnings seriously. They are too busy getting mad that their court shows are preempted to issue the warnings. You'd think after what happened here and in Revere, they would learn.
@@wweisawseome we were terrified in Somerville the whole time. When the storm system moved into our area, I dragged my husband into Target because I figured that was a safe place being a large sturdy building. Thankfully it was just a bad thunderstorm but I was scared. And I'm from Michigan!
I was at work in Shrewsbury at the time and was about to leave work, when I was told not to leave. Thankfully no 🌪️, but a lot of lighting, rain and wind.
@@ryansullivan4035 dude i was leaving school when this happened. My schoolbus was by the basketball hall of fame, the driver told us to get under the seats scary day dude.
Good camera work. Thanks for posting this. When you see how powerful it is, how fast it forms, how far the debris is tossed, it makes you understand it's wise to stay in shelter instead of going to look.
For all of you complaining that this guy doesn't shut up, this was necessary. New people were tuning in constantly and needed to be told this was a live, ongoing, and potentially dangerous situation. Most never experienced a tornado before. Notice how many times he mentioned Wilbraham and implored the residents to take cover. That area ended up being hit very hard.
Yes,Josh N. This man is trying to warn his audience about a danger that they don't normally encounter.He did a fine job warning them. I live in the north side of tornado alley and appreciate all the warnings we get.
Fantastic video John, the River footage is the best i've seen.. You took a big chance with your life to film that and i'm glad you were alright. I've never seen how a Tornado grabs and pulls water from the river banks. Thank you for that.
I remember how scared I was during this time I was 9 years old and was walking home with my family from a candy store...we heard a huge explosion and then saw a tornado in that water we were immediately taken into the candy store to safety. It was very scary especially for me and my younger brother. Massachusetts is still in shock because tornadoes usually never happen in this state.
Honestly, this is the first time I think my dad saw a tornado in person! (my dad is Brandon Butcher, the weatherman) He was so concerned for the residents that he didnt take shelter!
When I saw this on TV I was completely wowed in general, but particularly when it went waterspout. I had never seen that before. So, it is a fact that diving into the water won't necessarily save you. Small boats would have been blown away and larger ones would have been overturned. The fact that the cars stayed on the bridge show at this point it was probably not an F3 and still the deadly water action.. Truly unique and awesome maritime video! My curiosity satisfied. Thanks CBS 3!
Yeah I remember this I was 14 I lived in Grafton MA my whole family and I had to sit in the basement. Honesty it was really scary they played the tornado siren at the fire dept right by my house. It hit my town bad a lot of debris.
@@Tropicflamingo Yep! The Springfield tornado had max winds of 160MPH which is 6MPH away from being an EF4, Which is basically the modern day Worcester tornado.
@andywolan WSHM owns the rights to the video. It is a station owned by Meredith. I am a technical producer at the station and happened to be operating the tower cam and directing the weather cut-in when the tornado hit.
@jubjubs1000 Actually, it is. This is the national weather service definition of a tornado, ""A violently rotating column of air, usually pendant to a cumulonimbus, with circulation reaching the ground. On a local scale, it is the most destructive of all atmospheric phenomena."" And sure enough, this is a tornado. Nowhere does it say anything about strength other than "violent" but that's relative. It also doesn't say anything about visibility, you can't always even see them.
Very good weather broadcaster! Reported the tornado more accurately compared especially to channel 40 when Ed Carroll did not even know what direction it was moving.
I was at my school in South Hadley when this hit my neighborhood because my bus was being held. Half of the staff that was still at my school at that time were looking for me and I nearly collapsed when I heard my house was hit. All 8 of our trees fell. I still have nightmares about this day. We're still not done with repairs and every time I watch this I think about my dad because he was stuck in the middle of this when I was at my school. :(
I believe that these pictures were probably fed live to four other CBS-TV affiliate stations in the area: WFSB-TV Hartford, WBZ-TV Boston, WPRI-TV Providence and WCBS-TV New York.
I remember when it came over Springfield College I lived right off wilbraham road, but it was big as hell still. I litterally watched it hoping it didn’t come my direction and gladly it went up island pond road
I lived a couple miles south of Springfield when this happened. I remember feeling silly that me and my kids were hiding in the basement but I didn’t feel silly when I saw what happened to the downtown area. Tornadoes are the real deal
Virtually all of that "water" is just the water vapor in the air being condensed by the very low pressure in the tornado. Strangely enough, hardly any of it is actually the water from the river.
Holy crap if you look at the very bottom of the screen right at 2:10 you see a car drive right into it then start spinning and get sucked up into it. I know there was 6 deaths I think from this tornado I wonder if they just caught one of them on camera live.
wow awesome footage. I live on Cape Ann and the closest i have ever seen to a tornado was a microburst a couple years ago that had wind speed measured at 100 mph just down the street from me. Trees down everywhere. I thought it was a tornado at the time cause it got VERY windy very fast. I really want to see a tornado, preferably one that doesn't hurt or kill anyone.
I asked my meteorologist that day after the tornado about the water being pulled up into the tornado and he told me that the water wasn't being sucked up into the tornado. The downforce of the tornado is so strong, like the equivalant of an atomic bomb, that it causes the water to vaporize. The water vapor then gets pulled up into the tornado.
They were soooo lucky that was a relatively weak tornado, it could hardly have made more of a direct hit on the city. Back in 1953 we got hit with a F-5, 300mph+ tornado in Worcester so this region is more than capable of producing another monster like that, if one that big had struck Springfield today it would have killed hundreds.
Meteorologist gil Simmons with new channel 8 in Connecticut watched it live that day and we here all I'm ct couldn't believe what we all in the northeast were seeing
impressive work btw on sky cam if was you moving it and stuff bit better than sky cam people who control for midwest and recall alabama one can find on youtube for one tornado.
Man I remember that day. I was in a house with a bunch of idiots trying to get a dog into the basement with cheese doodles. I could've cared less if the tornado had swept up every last one of them cretins.
@@flissss He said that he'd probably had said stuff way stupider. He was so focused on convincing people that it was real since people would rather go to starbucks there than take shelter.
killer trix cam score man- I remember taking in the clean version last week - some day I hope to catch an earthquake on one of my cams- word from the NBC T.O.C. in the SF bay.
I spoke to my meteorologist right after it happened. He told me that the downward force of the tornado was the equivalent of 15 atomic bombs, so the water was vaporizing, and the vapor was being sucked upward.
@@JohnChambersone-up He's doing just fine. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to go to the award ceremony as this broadcast was practically his last day. By the way, do you know where the award that the broadcast won is?
Yup. That's a tornado alright. When I first saw it hit the bridge I was like "Oh shit, none of those cars are going to be there when it leaves" and they got lucky because it wasn't intense then.
Actually he was doing a good job. People in New England are very dense will not take tornado warnings seriously. They will go to Dunkin Donuts for an iced coffee and if they get killed, blame the weather people for not warning them. They will also be more concerned about whatever tv shows got preempted. 3 people were actually killed during this tornado.
@HorizonMelt its the northeast what ya expect it aint the midwest and proubly his first time trying to get people take cover and actually getting a sky cam out there with a tornado. and just happened to be lucky the tornado wasnt rain wrapped liked most northeast storms take for exaple nyc ef2 if search up compleatly rain wrapped.
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This is some of the greatest footage ever recorded!
This weather guy is clearly used to dealing with New Englanders. They truly don't listen to storm warnings.
Lml they lie all the time
The times when we don’t get weather warnings is when stuff goes wrong.
Mostly because they over estimate the storm most of the time.
Us New Englanders learned a lot since then.
You're completely right. I live in central mass and we get warnings every year but no one ever goes to the basement because we assume nothing will happen.
Heard about this here in Atlanta. I grew up in Springfield. When I saw this on tv I couldn't believe it. The next time I visited after the tornado, I saw all the open areas down Parker St that were dense trees back in the 70's. Broke my heart!
I was an hour east of Springfield and the storms were bad even where we were, outside of Boston. The wind was insane and there were constant flashes of lightening. We had our bunnies ready in their carrier to run down to the basement. We aren't used to this in Mass and aren't prepared.
Those cars on the second bridge had a guardian angel. Whew!
And that's the problem. People in Mass don't take the warnings seriously. They are too busy getting mad that their court shows are preempted to issue the warnings. You'd think after what happened here and in Revere, they would learn.
@@wweisawseome we were terrified in Somerville the whole time. When the storm system moved into our area, I dragged my husband into Target because I figured that was a safe place being a large sturdy building. Thankfully it was just a bad thunderstorm but I was scared. And I'm from Michigan!
I was at work in Shrewsbury at the time and was about to leave work, when I was told not to leave. Thankfully no 🌪️, but a lot of lighting, rain and wind.
I live in Massachusetts it wasn't that bad it was a ef1 at most
I remember exactly when this happened, I was 10 years old .
I was 7
xx i was 3 and my dad was on that highway, but i didn’t know what was happening.
@@ryansullivan4035 dude i was leaving school when this happened. My schoolbus was by the basketball hall of fame, the driver told us to get under the seats scary day dude.
xx I was 9
I was in kindergarten and I my grandmas basement
Good camera work. Thanks for posting this. When you see how powerful it is, how fast it forms, how far the debris is tossed, it makes you understand it's wise to stay in shelter instead of going to look.
For all of you complaining that this guy doesn't shut up, this was necessary. New people were tuning in constantly and needed to be told this was a live, ongoing, and potentially dangerous situation. Most never experienced a tornado before. Notice how many times he mentioned Wilbraham and implored the residents to take cover. That area ended up being hit very hard.
THANK YOU! my dad is being put on blast for talking, while my dad is the only one warning people!
The way it was sucking up that water, looked absolutely incredible..
Weather dude is so excited he doesn't see the white compact getting sucked up and tossed at 2:09.
That is truly amazing, once-in-a lifetime footage... thanks for sharing! Very underrated tornado!
Question, do yall still have the award that the broadcast won?
That's my dad!
Your Dad was the best Meteorologist that WSHM ever had!
Hands down, this deserves an Emmy or a Pulitzer.
Yes,Josh N. This man is trying to warn his audience about a danger that they don't normally encounter.He did a fine job warning them. I live in the north side of tornado alley and appreciate all the warnings we get.
Fantastic video John, the River footage is the best i've seen.. You took a big chance with your life to film that and i'm glad you were alright. I've never seen how a Tornado grabs and pulls water from the river banks. Thank you for that.
I remember how scared I was during this time
I was 9 years old and was walking home with my family from a candy store...we heard a huge explosion and then saw a tornado in that water we were immediately taken into the candy store to safety. It was very scary especially for me and my younger brother. Massachusetts is still in shock because tornadoes usually never happen in this state.
The tornado was supposed to come over our house. Scariest stuff, ever.
He's probably never seen a tornado before. Remember, this happened in New England, where tornadoes are rare.
MA and CT get tornadoes on a yearly basis
@@Atl-jv1kw Yes, but not common enough where a large percentage of people have seen one.
Honestly, this is the first time I think my dad saw a tornado in person! (my dad is Brandon Butcher, the weatherman) He was so concerned for the residents that he didnt take shelter!
One of the scariest days of my life I was 7 years old when it happened
I remember this tornado I was i lived in Sturbridge and my house was fine but god damn it was scary
Aviation Man201 same I was in my basement with my mom and my siblings and I was crying lol
Oh my god, I remember this day vividly
Same
When I saw this on TV I was completely wowed in general, but particularly when it went waterspout. I had never seen that before. So, it is a fact that diving into the water won't necessarily save you. Small boats would have been blown away and larger ones would have been overturned. The fact that the cars stayed on the bridge show at this point it was probably not an F3 and still the deadly water action.. Truly unique and awesome maritime video! My curiosity satisfied. Thanks CBS 3!
"This is something that is real" - YOU DON'T SAY
Although its over and dangerous, Admit it when the water was getting sucked up, it was pretty cool
Yeah I remember this I was 14 I lived in Grafton MA my whole family and I had to sit in the basement. Honesty it was really scary they played the tornado siren at the fire dept right by my house. It hit my town bad a lot of debris.
Incredible footage. I was on the phone with the National Weather Service in my role as a severe storm spotter as this hit the ground.
This is engraved into my head I left that same day from the airport to go to Orlando and I got there and herd that this was so close to home.
I was watching thsi from WBZ in Boston and then watched this broadcast on the Springfield CBS affiliate.
This was a Amazing and Scary event.I remember it well.
How exciting Mr. Chambers. This guy knows his stuff. Great filming and reporting.
This tornado hit my house. Stupid news people said that this wasn’t going to happen in SPFLD
what kind of damage did it do
@@cod6guy12 It did high end EF3 damage at peak intensity.
@@pauldarling810 at least it didnt end like the one in Worcester decades before
@@Tropicflamingo Yep! The Springfield tornado had max winds of 160MPH which is 6MPH away from being an EF4, Which is basically the modern day Worcester tornado.
@andywolan WSHM owns the rights to the video. It is a station owned by Meredith. I am a technical producer at the station and happened to be operating the tower cam and directing the weather cut-in when the tornado hit.
@jubjubs1000 Actually, it is. This is the national weather service definition of a tornado, ""A violently rotating column of air, usually pendant to a cumulonimbus, with circulation reaching the ground. On a local scale, it is the most destructive of all atmospheric phenomena.""
And sure enough, this is a tornado. Nowhere does it say anything about strength other than "violent" but that's relative. It also doesn't say anything about visibility, you can't always even see them.
i was in this tornado it made my house almost fall apart
Very good weather broadcaster! Reported the tornado more accurately compared especially to channel 40 when Ed Carroll did not even know what direction it was moving.
"It's something that means something." Yes, yes it does.
I asked my dad about that quote and he still doesn't know what he meant by that. My dad did try to warn people a lot.
I was at my school in South Hadley when this hit my neighborhood because my bus was being held. Half of the staff that was still at my school at that time were looking for me and I nearly collapsed when I heard my house was hit. All 8 of our trees fell. I still have nightmares about this day. We're still not done with repairs and every time I watch this I think about my dad because he was stuck in the middle of this when I was at my school. :(
I believe that these pictures were probably fed live to four other CBS-TV affiliate stations in the area: WFSB-TV Hartford, WBZ-TV Boston, WPRI-TV Providence and WCBS-TV New York.
Yep
I remember when it came over Springfield College I lived right off wilbraham road, but it was big as hell still. I litterally watched it hoping it didn’t come my direction and gladly it went up island pond road
I remember it WELL I was driving back to Hartford when this happened it was CRAZY
I lived a couple miles south of Springfield when this happened. I remember feeling silly that me and my kids were hiding in the basement but I didn’t feel silly when I saw what happened to the downtown area. Tornadoes are the real deal
I remember seeing this live on the news
I’m really f~cking glad I live in the mountains
Meoyx they don’t care about mountains
@@nadokid1 tornados tend not to be in montians i think because of the air flow
@@ryansullivan4035 They go where ever they want
i was 4 when this happened, i used to live in chicopee. watching this happen live was scary.
Virtually all of that "water" is just the water vapor in the air being condensed by the very low pressure in the tornado. Strangely enough, hardly any of it is actually the water from the river.
I was literally the opposite direction of this tornado. I got really lucky it went Eastward. I live 5 minutes from there.
Holy crap if you look at the very bottom of the screen right at 2:10 you see a car drive right into it then start spinning and get sucked up into it. I know there was 6 deaths I think from this tornado I wonder if they just caught one of them on camera live.
I was a baby when this happened and we were driving around too but everyone was ok
wow awesome footage. I live on Cape Ann and the closest i have ever seen to a tornado was a microburst a couple years ago that had wind speed measured at 100 mph just down the street from me. Trees down everywhere. I thought it was a tornado at the time cause it got VERY windy very fast. I really want to see a tornado, preferably one that doesn't hurt or kill anyone.
This makes me sad. I was able to see this from my home. I was ok
God, that newsman was annoying and incredibly patronizing.
He is just trying to help, you ungrateful jerk.
I was more bothered by his jacket, it's way too big for him rofl
The guy is excited okay. It' a fucking tornado and he's a meteorologist. This is one of the days he gets to do some cock parading.
I'm just giving him a hard time. I've seen worse news reporters before, no big deal.
lol "you cannot be on a landline" "you need to use a cell phone" "you need to kill your first born child" I mean sheesh.
This was a scary day.
This scared me to death when I was younger.
Who owns the video taken from that camera? WWLP? WSHM? WGGB? It's become the hallmark of the Springfield tornado.
3 would be WSHM,40 and 6 are WGGB,and 22 is of course WWLP.
I think the announcer was scared. I would be, looking at that water.
My dad was actually mostly surprised if anything! He did trust the building's stability and he didn't take shelter.
I was REALLY close to this.........
Any witness on the Bridge?
i remember this. Ct had warnings as well. my work sent us home . i lived in eastern Ct
oh you can see a person running on the bridge... :(
This anchor's annoying commentary took away from the gravity of the situation. Shut up for a damn second so people can let it sink in.
The South end,Island Pond Road,and Monson got FUCKED UP!
Imagine being on that bridge when that tornado passed over.😳😬
That the storm formed over water allowed one to see the terrific suction power of the storm as the white river water gets carried upward.
I asked my meteorologist that day after the tornado about the water being pulled up into the tornado and he told me that the water wasn't being sucked up into the tornado. The downforce of the tornado is so strong, like the equivalant of an atomic bomb, that it causes the water to vaporize. The water vapor then gets pulled up into the tornado.
@@JohnChambersone-up thanks for your explanation, John. And best wishes
You do not wanna call anyone on landlines. You want to call them on cell phones.
They were soooo lucky that was a relatively weak tornado, it could hardly have made more of a direct hit on the city. Back in 1953 we got hit with a F-5, 300mph+ tornado in Worcester so this region is more than capable of producing another monster like that, if one that big had struck Springfield today it would have killed hundreds.
I was near there.. Thanks gosh it wasn't skinnier but I still see tree's flattened
It's big for Massachusetts. An EF3
Great Barrington once had an F4 and Worcester had an F5+ in 1953 with winds around 320mph, so huge ones are possible here
Andrew Tornadoboy Yes but that was over 50 years ago. We see plenty of those big ones out west more frequently
+Andrew Tornadoboy The Worcester tornado was a high F4, the one with 320 MPH winds was the 1999 bridge creek-moore tornado
@wx4newengland: I see what you mean. It looks like a car is being raised 50 feet in the area, but I think it's just debris.
in June 1 2011 I heard a siren it sounds like a fire drill
My dad saw it From that highway in the corner he has a picture of it
Amanda Kuperman my dad was also on the highway
the tornado started after school
Meteorologist gil Simmons with new channel 8 in Connecticut watched it live that day and we here all I'm ct couldn't believe what we all in the northeast were seeing
impressive work btw on sky cam if was you moving it and stuff bit better than sky cam people who control for midwest and recall alabama one can find on youtube for one tornado.
lol I think he was scarred shitless :D
Man I remember that day. I was in a house with a bunch of idiots trying to get a dog into the basement with cheese doodles. I could've cared less if the tornado had swept up every last one of them cretins.
It is something that means something.
Look at all the things
@@flissss Indeed. favorite quote from my dad. he still doesn't know why he said that. (the weatherman is my dad btw)
@@SuperDK09 It was a tense situation. He did well, I'd have probably hid under the desk.
@@flissss He said that he'd probably had said stuff way stupider. He was so focused on convincing people that it was real since people would rather go to starbucks there than take shelter.
@@SuperDK09He did a great job. Tell your dad we think he's super!
Is this Live?
that tornado happened before 6pm
killer trix cam score man- I remember taking in the clean version last week - some day I hope to catch an earthquake on one of my cams- word from the NBC T.O.C. in the SF bay.
wait how come I never saw this tornado
Did he really say "you may not hear lightning????!"
This tornado was a mile from my house, didn't wreck anything.
"This is something that means something."
I remember this tornado it was crazy and I don’t live there!!!!
at 2:30 did he say hear lightning? lol I thought you can only see, it's thunder you hear!
I remember that day i saw one going a cross my street and disappearing.
Ive never seen water sucked up like that holy crap
I spoke to my meteorologist right after it happened. He told me that the downward force of the tornado was the equivalent of 15 atomic bombs, so the water was vaporizing, and the vapor was being sucked upward.
@@JohnChambersone-up My Dad never told me that! (Brandon Butcher is my dad btw)
@@SuperDK09 How is your Dad doing by the way?
@@JohnChambersone-up He's doing just fine. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to go to the award ceremony as this broadcast was practically his last day. By the way, do you know where the award that the broadcast won is?
Signification??
I was in southbridge like an hour a way and we gah a warning to!
I was in six flags when this happened
Moris Orellana thank dear Lord Jesus and our Heavenly father that SFNE didn't get nailed!
There are cars on this bridge. This is a problem
1:39 THOSE PEOPLE ON THE BRIDGE!!!
Yup. That's a tornado alright. When I first saw it hit the bridge I was like "Oh shit, none of those cars are going to be there when it leaves" and they got lucky because it wasn't intense then.
Nice work.
I'm lucky I live in malden no wonder why I didn't see it
it was my birthday
rhode island tornado warning after 10 years
THAT WAS SO SKARY
OH my gosh, so scary!
Wow great video, but tho on air person needs to Shut up....whoa....
EF4 tornado is a big deal in this state
The tornado was an EF-3
Actually he was doing a good job. People in New England are very dense will not take tornado warnings seriously. They will go to Dunkin Donuts for an iced coffee and if they get killed, blame the weather people for not warning them. They will also be more concerned about whatever tv shows got preempted. 3 people were actually killed during this tornado.
@@andreg.2154 But it doesnt compare to the worst they had
And my dad is supposed to not warn people?
@HorizonMelt its the northeast what ya expect it aint the midwest and proubly his first time trying to get people take cover and actually getting a sky cam out there with a tornado. and just happened to be lucky the tornado wasnt rain wrapped liked most northeast storms take for exaple nyc ef2 if search up compleatly rain wrapped.
And we had a tornado too
My house got hit but luckily I was at my grandmas house so of course im ok