Oddity Archive: Episode 216 - Weather Warnings Vol. 2

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  • @LifeinAnalog
    @LifeinAnalog3 жыл бұрын

    Robert Park of Fridley didn't die that night. A young man with a similar name did, however, hence the confusion on WCCO's part. Note that they say "Clark" but the caller identifies himself as "Park." Robert Park was a teacher at the Middle School he had just come from and was reporting on.

  • @OddityArchive

    @OddityArchive

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've since gathered that. I got that wrong stat from an audio documentary WCCO made shortly after the '65 outbreak.

  • @LifeinAnalog

    @LifeinAnalog

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know just what recording you mean. Fascinating stuff, really draws you in.

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Max headroom

  • @5roundsrapid263
    @5roundsrapid2633 жыл бұрын

    I think weather warnings are where weather nerds, TV/radio nerds, and map nerds all find common ground. Growing up in a small town down South, I was all three!

  • @zetametallic

    @zetametallic

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm UK and all 3!

  • @CommodoreFan64

    @CommodoreFan64

    3 жыл бұрын

    Southeastern US here, and yep growing up in the 80's, and 90's I was all 3, and still am, along with just about all the technology/video game /computer/history geekism you can shovel on top of that lol!

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ImpetuouslyInsane You have no idea. I was pretty popular. I could drink and eat anybody under the table.

  • @blackcitroenlove

    @blackcitroenlove

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same, grew up in Oak Ridge, TN USA

  • @louiseogden1296

    @louiseogden1296

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup. Shared this with my geographer sister and mother. I'm the geek who likes interstitial stuff -- broadcast interruptions, alerts, etc.

  • @TeeVeeGames
    @TeeVeeGames3 жыл бұрын

    It's heartwarming that KELO had legit concerns for everyone's deaf neighbors back in the day.

  • @eascec8374

    @eascec8374

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not Every South Dakotan Is Deaf In The First Place... Not Just The State But For The KELO Viewing Area. Like I Mean, Is That Confusing Or What?

  • @robmclean4352

    @robmclean4352

    3 жыл бұрын

    That buzzer was so loud and annoying, I'd be surprised if even the deaf *couldn't* hear it...!

  • @Mind_Crimes

    @Mind_Crimes

    3 жыл бұрын

    The warning was just describing everyone who were lucky enough to hear the warning anyway.

  • @blackcitroenlove

    @blackcitroenlove

    2 жыл бұрын

    Truth. They were inclusive before a lot of broadcasters were.

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Television

  • @Dannypuck
    @Dannypuck3 жыл бұрын

    Kudos to the weather person for calling out people complaining about missing a show.

  • @OddityArchive

    @OddityArchive

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...a show that could easily be rerun and/or streamed, no less!

  • @CommodoreFan64

    @CommodoreFan64

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@OddityArchive Sadly some people have nothing in their lives, and have to find something to complain about. looks like ATSC 3.0 will shut some of these people up, as the weather alerts will only pop up if your county/zip code is effected at least from everything I've read so far.

  • @stephenholloway6893

    @stephenholloway6893

    3 жыл бұрын

    I get it on why some people would complain like if themselves aren't in the storms path now or later but they could had family or friends that were, or more storms could head their way later. Overall I have to side with the weatherman because he's saving lives by giving people the heads up to take cover. Besides, you could just catch the episode of your show later when the broadcast network streams it.

  • @CommodoreFan64

    @CommodoreFan64

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stephenholloway6893 Same I have to side with the weather man on this one every time there is something major going on with the weather. Of course I'm a bit of a weather nut myself using Weather Indicator on all my Linux machines, having a paid subscription to weather underground on my phone along with the unoffical NOAA Pro app, Google/Motorola weather, and my the WFXG app for the local weather man.

  • @LexieFM

    @LexieFM

    3 жыл бұрын

    I swear if that were me I'd throw in a few..."choice words."

  • @astrosci8864
    @astrosci88643 жыл бұрын

    It actually amazes me that WREX could still transmit during such heavy winds. Hats off to their engineers.

  • @guspolly

    @guspolly

    3 жыл бұрын

    The tower’s still standing after almost 70 years. Across town at WIFR, theirs actually collapsed in 2003 in a windstorm.

  • @Ace411275
    @Ace4112753 жыл бұрын

    Listen closely @8:52 it sounds like the announcer whispers "ohh god" before firing off the alert sound

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was just about to post this. I’d be saying the same thing if a tornado was bearing down on me. Good thing he said something FCC-friendly!

  • @bdalbor

    @bdalbor

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is unintentionally hilarious!

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    EBS/EAS

  • @Donald38

    @Donald38

    2 жыл бұрын

    Probably because it’s either A: the alert is so dang loud B: the storm was dang big

  • @guspolly
    @guspolly3 жыл бұрын

    When I saw your box cover, I knew my clip would make it in (20:44). I was directing, and we were all moved into the basement. I exaggerated my title, we didn't take a direct hit, but it was pretty darn close. The tornado siren is less than 1/4 mile from the studio, which made it sound even more ominous. We also have a thin tin roof in the studio that amplifies anything hitting it. It can be heard over the air when it rains. So no wonder the hailstorm sounded like bowling pins.

  • @christopheralthouse6378

    @christopheralthouse6378

    3 жыл бұрын

    OMG 😯😮 That storm kinda played all hell with your feed, were you shocked to see how it looked when you came back on-air?

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Color bars test pattern

  • @Mechanicoid
    @Mechanicoid3 жыл бұрын

    Came for the warning sounds, stayed for the closing music.

  • @kaboomgamer333
    @kaboomgamer3333 жыл бұрын

    That soap opera one was perfectly timed.

  • @Ace411275
    @Ace4112753 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see a "Meat and Potatoes" episode of OA again :) Get yourself a NOAA weather radio if you don't already have one... When it goes off in the middle of the night, it will wake you up enough to go turn on the TV and see if your in the Polygon... Glad you were safe Ben.

  • @waterandafter

    @waterandafter

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lucky me, I have a siren about 1/4 mile from me.

  • @emilyyamasaki4968
    @emilyyamasaki49683 жыл бұрын

    KSN Studios: takes cover because it's that bad Midwest dads: outside with a beer that's what my friend told me

  • @OddityArchive

    @OddityArchive

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can vouch for this.

  • @FailSafe161
    @FailSafe1613 жыл бұрын

    I saw the notification for this episode and pressed it so fast I obliterated my phone

  • @TKRVideoCentral
    @TKRVideoCentral2 жыл бұрын

    I grew up during my grade school years in Central Ohio, lived through the April 3 1974 super outbreak, thankfully, we had no tornadoes come near us where we lived outside of Newark. However, my childhood will forever be scarred by the blunt and terrifying Weather Bulletin slide that WBNS-TV Channel 10 in Columbus used. When you're 8 or 9 years old in the middle of a sunny summer afternoon watching cartoons and that SOB popped up with NO warning, let me tell you it terrified me. The little "WBNS 10 TV" on top barely visible and the gigantic WEATHER BULLETIN filling up the whole damn screen - it was traumatic to the point where anytime it came on I would instantly run from the room screaming for my mom to go look at it, because I wasn't going to sit and listen to it. To this day - and i'm pushing SIXTY - I am still overly cautious about bulletins and such, and am very attentive and have remained a total severe weather nerd, even though i'm now in Boston - my mom lived in Ohio until she passed in 2018, so I kept aware. This was a great video, Ben - if you can ever find that Channel 10 slide (I've had no luck, and I wanted to show my wife) and include it on something, please Please PLEASE include a trigger warning before showing it...heh heh...love the Archive, huge fan, keep up the great videos!

  • @Nadia1989
    @Nadia19893 жыл бұрын

    The guys on air while the tornado is hitting makes me remember the anchormen that keep their cool in the middle of an earthquake. Wow.

  • @newstarcadefan
    @newstarcadefan3 жыл бұрын

    Yup, for those of you whom are wondering about 26:03, that's former WKEF/WRGT meterologist Jaime Simpson who got rather annoyed about people complaining about not being able to see the Bachelor.

  • @eascec8374

    @eascec8374

    3 жыл бұрын

    Jamie Did Saved The Day At That Point, And I Called Him An "Ohioan Hero Of Television". Not Just Because Of The Tornado Warning, He Doesn't Want Any WKEF Viewers To Watch Those Explicit And Inappropriate Primetime Material ABC Had Placed Since Then. To Me, I Always Think That ABC Had Gone Too Far With Their Children Not Allowing To See That Evening's ABC Programming, More Commonly On The Show That Was Showing At That Time, I Always Called It "ABC-Styled *****graphy".

  • @flamingdog9207

    @flamingdog9207

    2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine getting pissed about missing the bachelor of all things. That's really no big loss in general, that show's just stupid "reality" garbage(seriously, how anyone likes it is beyond me.). But it's especially not a loss when it's interrupted in favor of reporting on potentially life-threatening weather, distributing information that could possibly save some people from injury or even save lives. Like, how sad does your life have to be to care about some shitty reality show by/with some rich pricks more than your life/the lives of your fellow people. /rant

  • @AliasUndercover
    @AliasUndercover3 жыл бұрын

    OK, that WCCO tone was damn ingenious. EDIT: Ha! Close to a direct hit! Horseshoes and hand grenades.

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    It went just behind their parking lot, and destroyed their news chopper and its hangar. Ironically, another tornado hit there 22 years earlier, and a cameraman recorded it from the same loading dock!

  • @daveporter0217

    @daveporter0217

    3 жыл бұрын

    It sounded like the UVB-76 buzzer to me

  • @Fluteboy

    @Fluteboy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ashtrays are surprisingly versatile. In the intro to *Telstar* by the (no pun intended) Tornadoes, that echoing rattling sound was created by running a pen around the inside of a large glass ashtray. People had imagination back in the days!

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Invader Zim

  • @michaelfisher9722
    @michaelfisher97223 жыл бұрын

    The buzzing part of the WCCO warning tones sound a lot like some of the tones used in old analog phone systems.

  • @this_is_angel74
    @this_is_angel743 жыл бұрын

    Perfect episode on a gray and rainy day

  • @cac_deadlyrang
    @cac_deadlyrang3 жыл бұрын

    The fact that the WCCO Klaxon sound and Attention Tone are split by an announcement of programming interruption predicted how EAS EANs would be formatted.

  • @Aquatarkus96
    @Aquatarkus963 жыл бұрын

    Im sad you didn't include the march 2013 storm in Amarillo. John Harris of KAMR was stuck with the station crew in the bathroom taking shelter while still giving updates on the storm which was forming a tornado over the studio/downtown Amarillo in that very moment. Kinda went viral actually, to the point I think Al Roker interviewed him when he was still on TWC.

  • @PKSandman
    @PKSandman3 жыл бұрын

    26:02 I was expecting to see this. Jamie Simpson, though he has some personal issues that have damaged his career, is a damn good meteorologist. I hope he pulls through (by the by, he has had 2 DUI's- one that got him canned from WHIO, the other got him canned from WRGT/WKEF) and finds gainful employment until he retires.

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    TWO of them? Ouch.

  • @TheHunterPersian
    @TheHunterPersian3 жыл бұрын

    Weather warnings was always one of my favorite episodes of OA, so I'm glad to see it back!

  • @clang5110

    @clang5110

    2 жыл бұрын

    what

  • @ilajoie3
    @ilajoie33 жыл бұрын

    Classic Oddity Archive returns!!!

  • @imrustyokay
    @imrustyokay3 жыл бұрын

    you know, I recorded an EAS alert a couple weeks ago and tried to upload it to youtube....and then it immediately got blocked by NBC because it happened during an episode of Saturday Night Live. Also, it's appropriately dreary today, lmao. Severe weather season is much more vague in my area. It's usually from March to November. Although storms usually happen at night, including tornadoes...which just makes them scarier for me...and people wonder why I'm moving Northwest to Minnesota. BTW, This is gonna be the after show after I watch Jaws for a class today. Also BTW, Glad you made it out of that severe thunderstorm alive. It's always handy to have a Severe Weather Radio on hand, something my parents can't seem to get the Jist of... 21:20 I wish people would stop making "women are dumb" comments about her, when you panic your brain sometimes comes unglued a little... especially when THE GUY GOES OUTSIDE LATER IN THE CLIP

  • @mr3urious
    @mr3urious3 жыл бұрын

    I feel like the "deaf neighbor" thing was intended as a passive-aggressive insult for anyone too stupid to realize there's danger abound, not to be interpreted literally.

  • @cac_deadlyrang

    @cac_deadlyrang

    2 ай бұрын

    Probably a double-entendre.

  • @matthewstewart1986
    @matthewstewart19863 жыл бұрын

    Here in East TN, we are dealing with flooding like we never had before. Stay safe! ❤

  • @imrustyokay

    @imrustyokay

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's been raining a lot lately all over the area. Hope you're family is safe, Matt!

  • @LuigiGodzillaGirl
    @LuigiGodzillaGirl3 жыл бұрын

    The Jeopardy! clip gave me a much needed laugh after a sucky day.

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nintendo

  • @cac_deadlyrang

    @cac_deadlyrang

    2 ай бұрын

    @@missbleach8767what

  • @TheLazurus
    @TheLazurus Жыл бұрын

    As soon as I saw the 23:00 clip I remember watching that one as a kid. Scary day, we lived near McConnell AFB at the time. First time I can remember the weather team having to head for shelter.

  • @VectraQS
    @VectraQS3 жыл бұрын

    KETV used that alert tone for _years_ -- I think the last time I heard it was in the late 2000s or early 2010s. 19:06 I think a photo of the 1986 Fridley tornado snuck in there.

  • @delmontoon
    @delmontoon3 жыл бұрын

    Really great episode, Ben! The synchronicity stuff reminded me of when my grandparents used to record movies on VHS off of local TV stations in Flint, Michigan, commercials and all, back in the '80s. When visiting their house as a kid, I used to watch their copy of NBC's broadcast of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which I believe had aired on WNEM TV5, the then-NBC affiliate out of Saginaw, Michigan. If you recall, during the scene where Indiana Jones and his crew are digging for and then prying the lid off of the Well of Souls, a thunderstorm begins to brew all around them. At that exact time, a severe thunderstorm warning is announced, along with distinctively creepy alert jingle, weather bug and bottom-of-the screen scroll. It synced up so perfectly and always added to the dread I felt when viewing that particular scene of the film. I wish I had held onto that tape after my grandparents had passed; I'd have happily shared it with you.

  • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
    @AveryTalksAboutStuff3 жыл бұрын

    Well good morning Oddity Archive gang!

  • @anonymouswaffle33
    @anonymouswaffle333 жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised in St. Louis so this all feels normal. We get crazy weather here.

  • @yeeny.

    @yeeny.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can confirm

  • @cac_deadlyrang

    @cac_deadlyrang

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep.

  • @larrylaffer3246
    @larrylaffer32463 жыл бұрын

    Hitting a little close to home. Considering I live in God's Little Weather Experiment. "MN."

  • @NLind

    @NLind

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me, too! (Rochester, previously Austin)

  • @larrylaffer3246

    @larrylaffer3246

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NLind Ah. SPAM County.

  • @syxepop

    @syxepop

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@larrylaffer3246 - for those in the audience, it's the LUNCHEON MEAT as the town is where are the HQ of Hormel for decades.

  • @ThatLinuxDude
    @ThatLinuxDude2 жыл бұрын

    "I think the Weather Alert just detected some metal" BRUHH you got me laughing with that caption tho. 8:55

  • @penforprez
    @penforprez3 жыл бұрын

    (10:13) Me: "FINALLY! Some St. Louis content!" Me two seconds later: "I don't recognize that meteorologist!"

  • @mequetrefe413
    @mequetrefe413 Жыл бұрын

    25:55 This same scenario of a destroyed tower site was experienced by WAPA TV 4 in Puerto Rico (the studios are in Guaynabo, and they were build like a fallout shelter, and their tower site was at top of La Santa Mountain in Cayey). WAPA TV was off the air, but their US feed named WAPA America, and their broadcast on their website was on the air.

  • @modernaudioplays7325
    @modernaudioplays73255 ай бұрын

    When i was about 9 to 10 years old, i was watching TV on a stormy spring afternoon and a re run of that one epsiode of King Of The Hill came, the one about the town getting hit by a tornado. About 10 mins into the episode, a Tornado Warning popped up on the screen, talking about eerie

  • @brianhebert6152

    @brianhebert6152

    Ай бұрын

    That's what we in the trade call a coincidence

  • @mightyfilm
    @mightyfilm3 жыл бұрын

    Anytime there's a decent enough snowstorm over here, we get local news stations interrupting programming for LOOOOONG coverage before, during, and after. Though, during prime time, the worst they'll do is just pop up for a few minutes every hour. Your television programming is juuuust interrupted enough that you don't miss an episode of anything, but frustratingly enough of the beginning that you wouldn't want to see it anyway.

  • @JL-sm6cg
    @JL-sm6cg2 жыл бұрын

    @7:28; God! My paternal grandparents used to live out that way! @8:41; That reminds me of when I was coming out of a dream where there was applause and it segued into the pouring rain coming down and the lightning that hit our neighbor's tree and dropped a large part of it on our house, waking us up with a start. @20:48; I recall seeing the KZread video of this originally, and thought how amaze-balls it was to be watching a live broadcast when the studio was in the middle of the storm.

  • @waterandafter
    @waterandafter3 жыл бұрын

    This is some incredible work. The six tornadoes segment was riveting. I have a video on my channel of the same storm that killed boy scouts, my son was in their troop but (obviously) not on that trip. Our house is in some hills so we are a little less worried about tornadoes. But, considering that that tornado touched down in hills there really is no safe space.

  • @astrosci8864
    @astrosci88643 жыл бұрын

    It is interesting that there were no crank calls during the WCCO tornado reports.

  • @tommynesbitt4837

    @tommynesbitt4837

    3 жыл бұрын

    1. It wouldn't have been "Minnesota nice" of them 2. With Howard Stern years removed from any media presence, "Baba Booey" would not be in anybody's vocabulary

  • @jenbirdie7633

    @jenbirdie7633

    3 жыл бұрын

    There has been. During a storm outbreak across the northwest metro in September 2005, someone called in with the classic Twister line " I gotta go, we got cows!!"

  • @astrosci8864

    @astrosci8864

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jenbirdie7633 Well, I did expect some crank calls at SOME time in the past.

  • @brianhebert6152

    @brianhebert6152

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@tommynesbitt4837 I can only imagine crank calls with 1950s slang

  • @AuntMaddy
    @AuntMaddy3 жыл бұрын

    Wake up babe new Oddity Archive

  • @Legend813a
    @Legend813a3 жыл бұрын

    10:13 Teddy Bear by Red Sovine. Another tear jerker made for truckers, Red had a string of them Phantom 309, Giddy up-Go. Not weather related vut there you go.

  • @stishstash166
    @stishstash1663 жыл бұрын

    my craziest weather alert experience was an EAS alert for an avalanche, but the problem is that the cities mentioned were nowhere near my town, but they broadcast the EAS here anyway, I guess because we're all in the same county? Who knows. My town is nowhere near the mountains, we don't even get thunderstorms very often and when we do they only last about a minute. So it's very interesting.

  • @guspolly

    @guspolly

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, EAS activates by county.

  • @MrBeardsley
    @MrBeardsley18 күн бұрын

    12:08 Fun fact, the first use of weather radar on US television helped launch legendary news anchor Dan Rather’s career. In September of 1961 he was covering the approaching Hurricane Carla for CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston, TX. He had the idea of broadcasting a map of the area overlayed with a radar image of Carla to give viewers an idea of the scale, but the technology to pull that off didn’t really exist at the time. So he had someone draw a rough outline map of the Gulf Coast on a transparency, took a remote crew to the US Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service) station in Galveston, and held the transparency up over a radar screen while the camera operator shot it. Rather’s broadcast was so novel it was picked up by multiple network affiliates all over the country, and a year later he left Houston to join CBS’ national news desk in New York.

  • @kennethlaws9103
    @kennethlaws91033 жыл бұрын

    I remember that KETV weather bulletin sound at 8:53. They used that for years. Certainly got your attention. Severe weather coverage these days isn't quite so scary-instead of loud attention-grabbing sounds and creepy-looking "Weather Bulletin" or "Tornado Warning" graphics with a voiceover, they just either run the warning as a crawl on the bottom of the screen, or do live on-air coverage with the radar so you can actually see where the storm is.

  • @astrosci8864
    @astrosci88643 жыл бұрын

    WCCO AM - Now with the patented "Homo-Sapien Triangulation Phone In" Radar.

  • @brianhebert6152

    @brianhebert6152

    Жыл бұрын

    "Homo-Sapien Triangulation Phone In Radar" sounds like a good name for a band

  • @fflowersjr
    @fflowersjr3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, Ben. I just wanted to say thank you. I've been watching your videos on and off since around 2014-2015, and you are always entertaining and informative. I'm glad that you decided to do another weather warnings episode. I grew up in the 80s and the old EBS alerts never failed to scare me. But, that was nothing compared to the fear people had to have watching a tornado live on the air destroying their hometown TV station! Holy @#$*!! This would have been a good time for that Haynes "Boy, do I feel good all under" commercial afterwards.

  • @christiandowney
    @christiandowney3 жыл бұрын

    I’m glad you’re still doing videos like this, god bless

  • @janewaters3026
    @janewaters30263 жыл бұрын

    Didn't expect to see footage from KSN which was the station we had where I grew up, surreal seeing them yell for shelter. Eerie

  • @DevannB
    @DevannB3 жыл бұрын

    Love the NWS videos, thanks a bunch Ben!

  • @chuckufarlie8215
    @chuckufarlie82153 жыл бұрын

    That synth playing at the end was excellent. I really enjoyed that, great episode all around.

  • @SprightlyValentino
    @SprightlyValentino3 жыл бұрын

    2:39 made me do a double take. I never knew there was a Harrisburg in SD. I lived in Harrisburg, PA for 8 years. And I don't miss the weather!

  • @jonavene12

    @jonavene12

    7 ай бұрын

    Harrisburg's actually a suburb of sioux falls.

  • @adambell9188
    @adambell91883 жыл бұрын

    The amount of research done on this video is fantastic. This is the quality content that keeps me coming back to this channel

  • @tunneltrain96
    @tunneltrain963 жыл бұрын

    would've never thought to see the day when I see returns of my favorite episodes from several years ago

  • @Gypsy-Tongue
    @Gypsy-Tongue3 жыл бұрын

    1. That KELO weather warning has a cool sound that I want it as a ringtone. 2.I have heard that tone from WCCO radio before in an EAS Scenario video a year ago

  • @atrainradio929
    @atrainradio9293 жыл бұрын

    Hell yes! More weather warnings!

  • @hubzcaps
    @hubzcaps3 жыл бұрын

    Says here have a drink n chucks the bottle up into the twister.

  • @thekidfromiowa
    @thekidfromiowa3 жыл бұрын

    Of course the warning Benny is most familiar with is Content ID.

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    Little Rock

  • @drstyxquack
    @drstyxquack3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Ben, do a show about the voices the National Weather Service uses during there forecasts and warnings / watches. The evolution of the computer voice fascinates me. I can actually remember when a real human being delivered both weather forecasts and severe weather stuff, I'm only 40!

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’m 41 and remember actual voices also. They’d use a tape recorder, even when a warning was issued. If it was really bad, they’d do it live.

  • @drstyxquack

    @drstyxquack

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@5roundsrapid263 radar screens with only one moving line, and the ground clutter. It seems like being a meteorologist was like being a radiologist with all the crap one would have to interpret! Modern radar seems almost too good.

  • @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo

    @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hold a special interview segment with Paul and Donna.

  • @drstyxquack

    @drstyxquack

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MichaelPKelly-hg5jo so that's what they call those robot voices!

  • @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo

    @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@drstyxquack Tom, Craig, Javier, and Violetta could also maybe grant some time. And perhaps a special appearance by Paul Sr.?

  • @gamblincabbie9505
    @gamblincabbie95053 жыл бұрын

    Oh NOOOOO not the KELO slide!!!

  • @astrosci8864
    @astrosci88643 жыл бұрын

    I do love that guy who complained about the Social Media crowd. Weather doesn't care about their feelings...

  • @engineergaming5566

    @engineergaming5566

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Brian Hebert twitter would become hell, let me tell you.

  • @brianhebert6152

    @brianhebert6152

    11 ай бұрын

    There was a comment about the potential reaction from a worshipped pop act's concert being interrupted by a weather bulletin here, but it was deleted along with the rest of my old account

  • @jobrown95
    @jobrown952 жыл бұрын

    28:12 I truly appreciate the meteorologist giving details of what the viewer's screen should look like so they know the station isn't just down. Hopefully whoever did the captions was also on their A game so they could warn as many folks as possible.

  • @harvardnshorty
    @harvardnshorty3 жыл бұрын

    IIRC, the caller on the Fridley JH tornado (18:13) didn't die. It was someone else with a similar name. The caller was actually a teacher at the school.

  • @MinoTheShow
    @MinoTheShow3 жыл бұрын

    Keloland is so nostalgic, glad they haven’t changed the logo in at least 20 years

  • @friesareyummy

    @friesareyummy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hopefully someone who cares more about KELOland takes over someday. I don't think Nexstar should be the ones controlling such a wonderful station.

  • @holyshard530
    @holyshard5303 жыл бұрын

    Benny boy! Nice to know you created a sequel to that episode, as it is one of my favorites

  • @christinescreativitycabine280
    @christinescreativitycabine2802 жыл бұрын

    You might be interested to know that my aunt survived the May 6, 1975 Omaha tornado (as did I; I was 14 at the time) and actually had a deaf neighbor that she informed about the warning and probably saved her life.

  • @thecrippledrummer
    @thecrippledrummer3 жыл бұрын

    I love seeing the old Omaha channel 7 warnings. I vividly remember the alert and Charlie Martin.

  • @imrustyokay
    @imrustyokay3 жыл бұрын

    26:18 WKEF, Dayton!

  • @jenbirdie7633
    @jenbirdie76333 жыл бұрын

    Great episode! I happen to live in beautiful downtown Coon Rapids! Check out the WCCO 1986 tornado footage, and KARE had video footage.

  • @gamblincabbie9505
    @gamblincabbie95053 жыл бұрын

    yah in the midwest we don't sounds the damn siren unless it's MEANT and NEEDED!!! lol (other than Monday Noon tests) :)

  • @Z3R0FiR3

    @Z3R0FiR3

    3 жыл бұрын

    yay 1st of the month noon tests!

  • @OfficialDJUnikittyYT
    @OfficialDJUnikittyYT3 жыл бұрын

    Well. there is a weather warning during a broadcast of a new My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic episode and that voice sounds like darth vader. Also. a new Oddity Archive right before my birthday !! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!! 🙂

  • @missbleach8767

    @missbleach8767

    2 жыл бұрын

    KZread

  • @SlaytonRider
    @SlaytonRider8 ай бұрын

    That red Sovine clip had me rolling

  • @xaxman
    @xaxman Жыл бұрын

    That WeatherWatch 7 alert sounds just like the plate in my head when the microwave is on.

  • @gamblincabbie9505
    @gamblincabbie95053 жыл бұрын

    Damn it Benny... I wasn't laughing until you put the "admit it we are all laughing" remark... :)

  • @luisreyes1963
    @luisreyes19633 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see the lighter side of those terror-inducing severe weather warnings on TV. 🌀

  • @Dylan-et2uz
    @Dylan-et2uz3 жыл бұрын

    that sequence of the radio callers and announcer zero in on that funnel they were tracking was really fascinating to hear. Wonder if that tracking saved any lives, being so sure of where it was heading without the tech to track it

  • @donk2c
    @donk2c3 жыл бұрын

    8:27 that’s where I live, along with my local news channel!

  • @qtipman6485
    @qtipman64853 жыл бұрын

    good vid 10/10

  • @cjc363636
    @cjc3636363 жыл бұрын

    23:55: Wireless mics failing due to out of range.

  • @drwolfpoint
    @drwolfpoint3 жыл бұрын

    I remember seeing that KDLT one live and the KELO (2019) one too.

  • @MoustiluigiRandom
    @MoustiluigiRandom3 жыл бұрын

    Très intéressante utilisation d'un cendrier.

  • @ArcherSlamBAM
    @ArcherSlamBAM3 жыл бұрын

    Didn't take a second for me to click "play" after seeing the notification this time. XD

  • @danmount9462
    @danmount94623 жыл бұрын

    Love these episodes. Any chance of you doing a history of continuity announcers?

  • @armron94
    @armron943 жыл бұрын

    Your life is the big one I was in a Tonado back in 2001 Michanan Tonado 10/24/2001

  • @tammijatti9164
    @tammijatti91642 жыл бұрын

    Ben, I’m hooked on your channel dude. Where on earth did you find that synthesized voice from a bBraille’n’Speak? What is a Braille’n’Speak? It’s a very oddly specific vintage electronic device that we in the blind community used to use. Like back in the day. Like way way back in the day. See that’s what I geek out on! I geek out on vintage weird tech shit used by blind people Long ago.

  • @adambell9188
    @adambell91883 жыл бұрын

    Also the Channel 13 weather segment with the storm hits the studio legit reminds me of the War of the Worlds broadcast for some reason.

  • @christopherbubb2890
    @christopherbubb2890 Жыл бұрын

    Quick correction on your credits... WJBK is not and has never been an independent station. It was a CBS affiliate from its inception until 1994 when it switched to Fox. Otherwise, great video! I'm a "weather warning" nerd myself. WCCO used that Klaxon sound well into the '80s. They even updated it a while back - now it's just a series of three dissonant digital tones but it still fulfills the purpose for which it was originally intended, which was to be a sound purposely irritating enough to wake people up and alert them to danger. I think a lot of the weird warning tones used by other stations across the Upper Midwest were probably inspired at least in part by the WCCO Klaxon, since WCCO was and is a 50,000 watt clear channel station with a humungous listening area. Have you seen the Bill Kurtis clip from Topeka 1966 - "For God's sake, take cover!" What about Wichita Falls 1964 where the meteorologist actually took the station's camera outside to film the tornado as it formed? Fascinating stuff.

  • @RevengeCreatureDelux
    @RevengeCreatureDeluxАй бұрын

    Yo! That pic on the box - WFIE 14 is from my local NBC affiliate! 😅

  • @EddieMillerStudios
    @EddieMillerStudios Жыл бұрын

    18:05 ~ Rest in peace, Robert.

  • @ArrowXskyReborn
    @ArrowXskyReborn3 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in North Dakota, on a military base there. I could pretty much time the day when the thunderstorms would roll in on summer evenings.

  • @ronaldblackburn2483
    @ronaldblackburn24832 жыл бұрын

    Milford Michigan home of the GM proving grounds . Lived in that nice over priced town/city .

  • @riinak7212
    @riinak72122 жыл бұрын

    If a tornado doesn't touch down, it's not a tornado, it's a funnel cloud.

  • @Fluteboy
    @Fluteboy3 жыл бұрын

    2:58 - Storm in a Tea cup?

  • @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo
    @MichaelPKelly-hg5jo3 жыл бұрын

    Red-eyes silhouette near the end almost made me jump. Now I'm imagining silhouette WBZ weatherman -- with red eyes

  • @Brillemeister
    @Brillemeister3 жыл бұрын

    RIP that poor man from Fridley. Honestly "Ed" came off as disrespectful this time. God bless

  • @OddityArchive

    @OddityArchive

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's all in retrospect. He did pretty much every needlessly dangerous thing along the way. Not a judgment, just an observation.

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@OddityArchive Sad, but preventable. A car is the last place to be in a tornado. It’s amazing he survived the first one. I’ve been in several of them, and I never got in my car.

  • @iamathousandapples
    @iamathousandapples11 ай бұрын

    Just a couple weeks(months?) Ago the footage from KOAM getting hit by the Joplin tornado just got released if anyone wants more

  • @Z3R0FiR3
    @Z3R0FiR33 жыл бұрын

    the 60s WCCO radio alert kinda sounds like a cell phone on vibrate on top of something plastic.

  • @friesareyummy

    @friesareyummy

    2 жыл бұрын

    It sounds like if a phone on vibrate and a fart had a love child lmfao

  • @rfccradioaudio1543
    @rfccradioaudio15433 жыл бұрын

    WWTN serving Nashville has had great tornado coverage during the past few outbreaks thanks to listener calls. Didn't know that listener calls of damage/sightings happened a generation ago.

  • @1903tx
    @1903tx3 жыл бұрын

    @25:24 Look at that beautiful stack of PVM-2530s