Posted on 04/12/2015 9:44:21 AM PDT by Whenifhow
– This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Palm Sunday tornadoes that tore through the Midwest. The National Weather Service recorded 47 tornadoes between April 11th and April 12th, 1965. 261 people died, making it the third deadliest outbreak on record. These details of the storm are something Carl Hartup witnessed first-hand. He worked as chief photographer for the News-Sentinel for 37 years. One can see a lot in a career that spans nearly forty years.
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“I took a corn stalk that was driven into a concrete block. The power of a tornado is just unbelievable,” Hartup said. The destruction was an almost insurmountable challenge to capture in just one shot. “There’s so much damage in a tornado that you can’t possibly get it all in a single photograph,” Hartup said. “I was thinking how lucky I was that I wasn’t ever in that tornado. They can be very, very devastating.”
On Sunday, the National Weather Service will be live-tweeting the events of April 11, 1965 as they happened. Follow the organization’s handle @NWSIWX and also look out for the #PalmSunday50. It runs from 1:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m.
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On Sunday, the National Weather Service will be live-tweeting the events of April 11, 1965 as they happened. Follow the organization’s handle @NWSIWX and also look out for the #PalmSunday50. It runs from 1:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m.
“I took a corn stalk that was driven into a concrete block.”
Truly mind boggling.
There are some photos, graphs, charts and more on the twitter feed. They have concluded the live tweets, so scroll down to view the live tweets.
here are a couple of tweets
https://twitter.com/NWSIWX/status/587035707438268416
At this time, Paul Huffman of the @ElkhartTruth captured the famous double tornado on camera. #PalmSunday50
https://twitter.com/NWSIWX/status/586963223540142080
Many recommendations came out of the events of 4/11/65, shaping the @NWS as it is today. #PalmSunday50
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/assessments/pdfs/palmsunday65.pdf
We just a half mile from the center of that tornado in Elkhart, Ind. One of the most terrifying days of our lives. The other was when I drove over the Donner Pass in a white-out blizzard with no snow tires.
My mother was a reporter for the South Bend Tribune at the time and wrote endless articles about the double tornadoes that ravaged our area. She worked with Paul Huffman who captured the double funnel in a photo seen round the world.
We just a half mile from the center of that tornado in Elkhart, Ind. One of the most terrifying days of our lives. The other was when I drove over the Donner Pass in a white-out blizzard with no snow tires.
My mother was a reporter for the South Bend Tribune at the time and wrote endless articles about the double tornadoes that ravaged our area. She worked with Paul Huffman who captured the double funnel in a photo seen round the world.
I was a junior in HS that year and it hit Kokomo, IN as well. Took out the whole south end of town. Schools. factories, malls, houses....you name it. It was bad. It was the 2nd that bad that I knew of growing up, and a couple others hit since.
Remember that day....The sky was the strangest shade of green I’ve seen before or since.
“Remember that day....The sky was the strangest shade of green I’ve seen before or since.”
BTW, just noticed your post, I lived in South Bend at the time.
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