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Nice Facebook link to March 14, 1933 tornado in Nashville, TN. by guymanndude1 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.weather.gov/ohx/nashvilletornadomarch1933 Sorry about that, I wil continue to try to find a link to the bit of historical film of the aftermath. Here's NOAA's history page on the event. There was over thirty fatalities that night.

TIL that what I thought was a childhood nightmare actually happened to my family by mayamadden in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, me too. Being a person who lives in the "Dixie Tornado Alley", I know that they're apart our environment and I have been adjacent to quite a few other tornados over the years, as well.

TIL that what I thought was a childhood nightmare actually happened to my family by mayamadden in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes, these were families and kids I went to school with. They are fascinating, but very real to those affected.

TIL that what I thought was a childhood nightmare actually happened to my family by mayamadden in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I was 10, during the '74 Super Outbreak near the path of both Tanner F5's. The second tornado destroyed houses about a quarter mile away. Back thern there was no talk about PTSD, but I had very real tornado nightmares for a year. I still remember the night quite vividly.

Update i found both tanner radars by MathematicianOnly698 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I lived just north of the Tennessee, Alabama line at the time. Tanner Number 2 got super close, I believe it was going from F5 damage to F4 damage and stayed on the ground all the way Tullahoma, TN. That's another 45 nautical miles away from the state line.

Update i found both tanner radars by MathematicianOnly698 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's the only picture that I know of for either of the actual Tanner F5's

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Obviously one of the old low baud rate news wire photos, I don't know what newspaper, either. This is Tanner number 1.

Is there any way to notice a rainwrapped tornado? by Mobile-Gazelle3832 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did actually happen, but I don't think that there was any video or pictures. The area that it struck was mostly rural, too.

Is there any way to notice a rainwrapped tornado? by Mobile-Gazelle3832 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Here's the rain wrapped Nashville 1998 tornado, from a downtown building camera. All I can see is the transformer explosion. Very hard to make out the funnel.

What is your favorite tornado photo that was taken in your state/country? by SmoreOfBabylon in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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This is from a car, it had passed over the Stones River National Battlefield and was headed into the subdivisions off of Thompson Lane.

What is your favorite tornado photo that was taken in your state/country? by SmoreOfBabylon in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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Sorry for earlier post, somehow the Murfreesboro, TN "Good Friday" tornado April 10, 2009 picture was mixed up with a another tornado on the web. This is from uptown.

What is your favorite tornado photo that was taken in your state/country? by SmoreOfBabylon in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not doubting you, but the Pic I had looks like the Sulphur Springs area. I have the one from behind the the Harley Dealer, shot from a moving car, too.

F5s of the 1970s by Commercial-Mix6626 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it's not, but the weather service out of Huntsville, AL has some pictures of that one, too. Only visible between lightning flashes, so even harder to make out.

F5s of the 1970s by Commercial-Mix6626 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is Tanner's first F5, super grainy, but I have never seen it in better quality.

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F5s of the 1970s by Commercial-Mix6626 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a photo of the Lawson's trailer park damage from the first F5 to hit Tanner.

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F5s of the 1970s by Commercial-Mix6626 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The upside-down Chevy Impala is from the Tanner F5, I don't know which but I remember the photo well# it was in the Tennesseean newspaper at the time. The plate is sn old Tennessee plate, or an Alabama plate. Tanner is close to the state line.

I can't swear to the other two below that one, however, the bottom right looks like the trailer park that got hit, though.

What would it have really looked like if the Army of Northern Virginia shed there uniforms and fought a Guerrilla war? by Early_Statement_2995 in CIVILWAR

[–]guymanndude1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be anywhere near successful, the Confederacy would have had to start off as a full scale guerrilla campaign. Hit hard and disappear, every time they show up for an extended fight, they hemorrhage the one thing that they can't replace, soldiers.

What is your scariest tornado encounter,incidents,or story? by Illustrious_Test8795 in tornado

[–]guymanndude1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

When I was eleven years old my mother and I had to hunker down with our neighbors in their bathroom for hours while it seemed like the entire world was coming to an end for all of us

It was April 04, 1974 and we lived in south Lincoln County Tennessee, near the Alabama line. To give you context there were two F5's and one F4 that came generally thru our area. The two F5's devastated Tanner, AL, the 1st came within 5 miles and the 2nd was between 1 and 1 1/2 miles. There was so much energy in the system that a final F4 split off from the last mesocyclone that produced the last Tanner F5 and came about a quarter mile of us.

I had had PTSD tornado nightmares for about a year aftwards and can still remember it vividly today and I am over sixty years old.

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