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WWMT News 3 | The 1991 Severe Weather Special: This WWMT-TV 3 broadcast originally aired at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 1991, two days shy of a tornado outbreak across the Great Lakes region. The 1991 weather special, hosted by the then TV-3 weather staff Ron Boyd, Keith Thompson and John Wendell, was widely recorded on home video locally in West Michigan, utilized by teachers and educational outlets for several years in the early to mid 1990's. All of the elements of a classic local broadcast television severe weather special are presented. Local severe weather history, public awareness with Kalamazoo County Civil Defense, area school visits with then chief meteorologist John Wendell, interviews with the National Weather Service in Muskegon, Michigan [now Grand Rapids], winter weather awareness and additional pointers.
Video from the March 27, 1991 tornado outbreak in the Great Lakes two days after this special broadcast can be accessed here: youtu.be/6FY4wK957kQ
Produced by Noel Sederstrom and the production staff at WWMT-TV 3.
© WWMT-TV 3 Kalamazoo, Michigan, All Rights Reserved.
Remastered from 3/4"/SVHS videotape into 1080p by Blake Naftel.
WWMT News 3 | The 1991 Severe Weather Special: This WWMT-TV 3 broadcast originally aired at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 1991, two days shy of a tornado outbreak across the Great Lakes region. The 1991 weather special, hosted by the then TV-3 weather staff Ron Boyd, Keith Thompson and John Wendell, was widely recorded on home video locally in West Michigan, utilized by teachers and educational outlets for several years in the early to mid 1990's. All of the elements of a classic local broadcast television severe weather special are presented. Local severe weather history, public awareness with Kalamazoo County Civil Defense, area school visits with then chief meteorologist John Wendell, interviews with the National Weather Service in Muskegon, Michigan [now Grand Rapids], winter weather awareness and additional pointers.
Video from the March 27, 1991 tornado outbreak in the Great Lakes two days after this special broadcast can be accessed here: youtu.be/6FY4wK957kQ
Produced by Noel Sederstrom and the production staff at WWMT-TV 3.
© WWMT-TV 3 Kalamazoo, Michigan, All Rights Reserved.
Remastered from 3/4"/SVHS videotape into 1080p by Blake Naftel.
![Tornado Alley [1997] The History Channel, Documentary](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dX4p5ATd6UA/mqdefault.jpg "Tornado Alley [1997] The History Channel, Documentary
Tornado Alley [1997] Part of the Wrath of God documentary series, this production features several historical United States tornado events that transpired in the 19th and 20th centuries with stories primarily focused around the March 18, 1925 tri-state tornado in southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. Eyewitnesses and survivors recount that event in original interviews in one of the last broadcast productions to present such original stories. At times the program takes visual liberties with stock tornado video and photos that are completely unrelated to actual events, incorporated for dramatic effect. Produced by Towers Productions for The History Channel, Tornado Alley aired during the peak of a tornado program boom for cable and television networks in the later part of the 1990s and was eventually marketed by A&E Home Video. This is remastered from an original production videotape and presented in high definition.
Additional information on the March 18, 1925 tri-state tornado: https://www.weather.gov/pah/1925Tornado_ss
Video © 1996, 1997 Towers Productions, The History Channel, All Rights Reserved.")
