Highway underpass tornado tv#

Ted points the camera northeast, showing the tornado on the east edge of the Turnpike as Greg shouts 'here comes another one!' which is a reference to being hit by the RFD The edge of the tornado goes over the bridge and we see the high winds Ted positions the camera toward the southwestĬars are seen being 'grabbed' by the tornado, thrown into the field east of the Turnpike then thrown west into the Turnpike They decide to take shelter under the bridge along with other motorists Greg perceives they are losing ground to the tornado (faster, Ted, faster faster!) They make a U-Turn to try to escape (there was no concrete Jersey Barrier on the Turnpike at that time) They spot the 'Son of Andover' tornado (as we called it). Ted and Greg are coming back from covering a story in northeast Kansas, completely unaware there are tornadoes in the area. Ted and reporter Greg Jared edited the video for on-air purposes and that is what has been seen on the air so many times.įrom memory, here is the sequence of events on the raw tape: WeatherData's building was physically connected to KSNW's, I spoke with Greg that evening, and with Ted many times thereafter. I have also visited the site where the video was shot. In addition to having access to the raw video, I viewed that video on an editing machine that allowed me to slow it down, view it forward and reverse, etc. I have viewed, multiple times, the raw 'underpass' video shot by Ted Lewis. The 'underpass' tornado came from the same supercell that spawned the earlier Wichita-Andover Tornado.

Highway underpass tornado tv#

On April 26, 1991, WeatherDataÂ® did all of the on-air weathercasts for KSNW TV and I, specifically, was handling the storm warnings both on-air and for our non-broadcast clients for the Kansas tornadoes that day. Here is the basis for my earlier comment: Click to expand.I didn't realize this is, apparently, a contentious topic.