Anyone who watched tornado documentaries from the 90s knows that this particular tornado was frequently used as a case study in analysis due to how widely captured by video it was. Gonna make the big claim that this tornado also holds the landmark as the first tornado in history where over a half an hour of its lifespan was continuously recorded on video - which I intend to demonstrate with this project.
A schema of deductive reasoning was used to line up the various angels that this storm was filmed from - much of the process was made more easily by lining up the familiar contours and shapes of the funnel itself as it evolved.
29 different videos - all from varying perspectives - are featured here. Many of these videos were uploaded in full to RU-vid, but many of them can only be found in short snippets from various news reports or educational programs. Locating and archiving many of these original videos has been challenging, but I hope to create a more comprehensive project like this once more videos come out of the woodwork.
This project took a lot of tedious work, and I don't expect it to all be perfectly aligned (there's at most a 5-second margin of error), but I hope you enjoy the effort anyway.
28 окт 2024
