{"id":6899,"date":"2016-04-30T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6899"},"modified":"2016-04-30T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T23:52:52","slug":"1953-georgia-tornado-the-first-one-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/04\/1953-georgia-tornado-the-first-one-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"1953 Georgia tornado the first one on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This Day in Weather History<\/em> on Facebook noted the April 30th F4 tornado which hit central Georgia in 1953. \u00a0It was 300 yards in width and leveled homes on the north side of Warner Robins, Georgia, as well as barracks on the south side of the Robins Air F<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">orce Base. The tornado killed 19 people and injured 350 others. The total damage was estimated at $15 million dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8RyCok8QMes\">link<\/a> to a short video which was recorded by someone during the storm. \u00a0It is believed to be the earliest video of a tornado. \u00a0Sadly, the videographer was hit by some flying debris as this video ended and apparently did not survive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/1953-warner-robins-tornado-screen-shot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6900\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/1953-warner-robins-tornado-screen-shot-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"1953 warner robins tornado screen shot\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/1953-warner-robins-tornado-screen-shot-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/1953-warner-robins-tornado-screen-shot-205x138.jpg 205w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/04\/1953-warner-robins-tornado-screen-shot.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day in Weather History on Facebook noted the April 30th F4 tornado which hit central Georgia in 1953. \u00a0It was 300 yards in width and leveled homes on the north side of Warner Robins, Georgia, as well as barracks on the south side of the Robins Air Force Base. The tornado killed 19 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-interesting-weather-images","category-severe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6901,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6899\/revisions\/6901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}