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Friday, April 26, 1991 brought a widespread and significant tornado outbreak to the Central Plains of America. Large and destructive tornadoes specifically swept over portions of Northern Oklahoma and Southern to Northeast Kansas. In the week/s after, Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH-TV 2 produced a special broadcast documentary chronicling the entire day and days after. Mixed in are actual behind-the-scenes video from the newsroom that evening, along with live reports from chief meteorologist Gary Shore and crew whom were to the west chasing the building tornado event between Billings and Red Rock, Oklahoma.
This is only the first half of the documentary, as the remainder of the tape was not saved on the copy I have.
More information on the April 26, 1991 tornado outbreak: weather.gov/oun/events-19910426
Video © KJRH-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Recorded from the original aired broadcast in 1991.
Friday, April 26, 1991 brought a widespread and significant tornado outbreak to the Central Plains of America. Large and destructive tornadoes specifically swept over portions of Northern Oklahoma and Southern to Northeast Kansas. In the week/s after, Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH-TV 2 produced a special broadcast documentary chronicling the entire day and days after. Mixed in are actual behind-the-scenes video from the newsroom that evening, along with live reports from chief meteorologist Gary Shore and crew whom were to the west chasing the building tornado event between Billings and Red Rock, Oklahoma.
This is only the first half of the documentary, as the remainder of the tape was not saved on the copy I have.
More information on the April 26, 1991 tornado outbreak: weather.gov/oun/events-19910426
Video © KJRH-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Recorded from the original aired broadcast in 1991.
![Raging Planet: Tornado [1997] The Discovery Channel](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wbgAj0F212Q/mqdefault.jpg "Raging Planet: Tornado [1997] The Discovery Channel
Raging Planet: Tornado is a 45 minute special that was produced by UK based Pioneer Productions and aired on The Discovery Channel in late 1997 and early 1998. It features many infamous tornado events and then ongoing research efforts from the early through mid 1990s and was one of the more popular tornado documentaries produced in the later part of the decade.
For references, the Pioneer Productions crew that was traveling and chasing with Jim Leonard and others, along with the mini research helicopter, are featured in this May 31, 1996 Kansas tornado chase day as documented by the late Jim Leonard: https://youtu.be/hjPSPAPPmjg
© 1997 Pioneer Productions, All Rights Reserved.")
