1991 April 27 Andover, Kansas F5 Tornado Damage Survey
This is a video clip from the DVD program “Storm Chase 1990-1992 by Robert Prentice.” This is a damage survey of the devastating F5 tornado damage at the Andover, Kansas Golden Spur Mobile Home Park shot on April 27, 1991. This internationally famous event has been featured in many documentary and news programs. Oddities include mangled cars, de-barked trees and a bent spoon embedded into the ground. Some scenes contain flattened homes as far as the eye can see. Sobering video that forces us …
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Sad… i live in this town right now weve completely rebulied the big cathlic chruch that was being built when this happened has all the pictures and the torndo pic and 2 items from the church… Sad once again 18 people died luckly i wasnt born yet..
that was a sad day it is sad that people died you have to support each other to get through things like this you have to have faith in order to rebuild and move on. I am sure the town does not look like this today
No it doesn’t i live in it right now and i is just liek an ordinary town and we have 5* schools and every Friday we have tornado drills. A lot more housing departures have been built if my area was built back then we would of have been demolished
that is good to hear
YEP
I just don’t know how to call this kind of destruction. The “finger of God” is such a terrible thing. It sounds silly but I fell in love with this “monsters” when I was a little boy, I’m so sorry for the families of the victims…my prayers are with them…
yep we have lots of sachools now
Was that car a Yugo? at the beggining of the video. lol
I lived in Andover during this time and lost everything I ever worked for. I was 20 years old and had my first child. It was the worst of the worst in my life. 6 years later, I lost another home in Kansas, from a Tornado. Life has moved on and yet, I have never ever seen a real tornado.
The Andover tornado produced F5 damage which is as bad as it can get. I’m sorry to read about your losses and hope your life is good now.
Thank you Robert! Life is good today.
there was a girl named emily ive argued alot with my father and oine day my dad came home pissed because he lost his job and he stabbed me in the neck then threw me in a well now im trying to haunt him but i cant find him so im hoping u can help me find him post this onto 10 videos or ill be waiting at the edge of your bed waiting until u go to sleep…a kid thought this? was dumb but the next day his parents found there son dead in the bathtub with the neck slit open drowned..
Thanks for posting this. Just wondering if you have any more video from the 27th. One of my big brothers and my brother-in-law spent most of the day out there looking for my mom. But my sister and I found her instead, in the mourge. My step dad was found in the mourge on the 26th. Because he had his wallet on him, they contacted his family that night. They didn’t just loose the things they owned, they lost their lives. There is still a big hole in our family that use to be occupied by them.
I’m very saddened to read of your loss from that day. I have another hour or two of raw video from our survey of the Andover, Kansas F5 tornado damage. It was a very sobering experience for a young meteorologist, fresh out of college.
My meteorologist friends and I can learn a lot by forecasting, chasing, surveying, and studying tornado outbreaks like this. The end result are improved forecasts, warnings and safety advice.
do you know how fast the winds were in that tornado. That whole mobile home park was completely wiped out it is amazing how nasty tornados can be
thats terrible. i only expectid damage like that 2 been seen on a film. but not real life. didnt think tornadoes cud 2 so much damage
Now that was a Tothpick tornado..Cars look like they have been chewed by a 200 ton angry dog..
Are these pictures before or after the tornado? It kind of looks like a mobile home community.
This video was obviously shot AFTER the tornado!
Part of this video was shot from the Golden Spur Mobile Home park. Other parts were shot from a well built residential area immediately west of the mobile home park. This is where the F5 damage occurred.
shoot yourself.
Wasn’t trying to offend. That car looks like half the cars in trailer parks in my city. I can see how my comment might have come off. My bad.
I saw a bit of video of a policeman trying to warn residents of the Golden Spur and there was some man just walking his dog like nothing was wrong. I always wonder if he made it. Did you also study the Red Rock Tornado of the same day?
Yes, I shot video of the Red Rock, OK tornado damage where it crossed I-35. A farmhouse sustained F4 damage and mile marker 200 was bent over. We interviewed the man who lived at the farm house and escaped the tornado path in his pickup truck. I’ve never published this video clip video.
I can see why, in a situation like this, it would be hard to distinguish between F4 and F5 damage.
I like the last few second where you can hear an airplane and there’s bottled water and a cup.
Life goes on. I’m amazed how people all over the world overcome natural disasters.