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An I Witness Video segment as originally broadcast on NBC in 1992 featuring a first hand interview with Bob Goodrie, the videographer whose dramatically narrated tornado video made the rounds on national television for a close call situation as a tornado impacted a series of cottages on Gull Lake, Minnesota on July 5, 1991.
The I Witness Video show was a docudrama and forerunner to what became natural disaster centric reality television later in the 1990's and into the 2000's. It ran for only two seasons, but still had a few well produced and memorable segments. This was NBC's answer to the CBS show that often aired opposite, Rescue 911.
Enjoy!
An I Witness Video segment as originally broadcast on NBC in 1992 featuring a first hand interview with Bob Goodrie, the videographer whose dramatically narrated tornado video made the rounds on national television for a close call situation as a tornado impacted a series of cottages on Gull Lake, Minnesota on July 5, 1991.
The I Witness Video show was a docudrama and forerunner to what became natural disaster centric reality television later in the 1990's and into the 2000's. It ran for only two seasons, but still had a few well produced and memorable segments. This was NBC's answer to the CBS show that often aired opposite, Rescue 911.
Enjoy!


![The Day of The Killer Tornadoes | April 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak
THE DAY OF THE KILLER TORNADOES [1975]: The Super Outbreak of tornadoes on April 3-4, 1974 was a terribly impactful severe weather event for many generations effected in the decades that followed. Hundreds of people fell victim to the winds, thousands more sustained injury from the 148 tornadoes that swept through the Midwest, East and Southeastern United States in under 18 hours. The most recent historical comparison to this tornado outbreak are the events from April 27, 2011. Brandenburg, Kentucky, Cincinnati and Xenia, Ohio, Guin and Huntsville, Alabama are among the many widespread localities visited in this film through original motion picture photography and reenactments.
Typically shown at Civil Defense and weather spotter training meetings in the 1970s and 1980s, this film was a follow up by the producers of the film A Lady Named Camille [1970] that chronicled the August 1969 Cat-5 hurricane Camille in Mississippi.
On a side note, WHAS-AM helicopter traffic reporter Dick Gilbert was the first to broadcast a live audio report of a developing tornado from a helicopter via radio. A dramatization of that event is also recreated with Dick Gilbert within this film.
The Day of The Killer Tornadoes is public domain by this point and has been sampled by countless television newscasts, programs and documentaries since its release to the public in 1975.
Additional information on the April 3-4, 1974 Super tornado outbreak: https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/nws-heritage/-/the-april-1974-super-outbreak-of-tornadoes The Day of The Killer Tornadoes | April 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yPwQYfkstpE/mqdefault.jpg)
![A&E Storm Chasers, 1993 Documentary
The early 1990s saw further public interest in storm chasing increase after several noteworthy tornado outbreaks in 1990 and 1991 grabbed headlines and television news broadcasts leads. After a few successful documentaries in the mid-1980s by WGBH NOVA, National Geographic and KARE-TV 11 in Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota, other media outlets took note and ran with a similar production formula. This program originally aired on the A&E cable network in 1993 and later was repackaged with updated narration by then CBS Chicago-based newscaster Bill Kurtis for broadcast and home video sale in 1995. All of this on the lead up to the 1996 Hollywood film that would permanently catapult storm chasing into the public vernacular, Twister. Its not a coincidence that Kurtis was selected as narrator, as he too had a significant tornado experience of his own at Topeka, Kansas on June 8, 1966, of which launched a long broadcasting career.
Storm Chasers [1993] follows several storm chasers and meteorologists during their varied exploits on the Plains, touches on a [then] recent Central Plains tornado outbreak [April 26, 1991] and a few other topics.
Program © 1993, 1995 A&E Productions, Kurtis Productions, All Rights Reserved. A&E Storm Chasers, 1993 Documentary](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yl7YwZUqRa8/mqdefault.jpg)

