WeatherData CEO Mike Smith is being featured in an episode of the History Channel series “Shockwave” tonight at 9 p.m.
He’ll be talking about the famous video taken from under the Kansas Turnpike bridge on April 26, 1991, as a tornado passed nearby. Smith calls it the “Son of the Andover Tornado,” since it was the same day as that deadly EF-5, but it wasn’t the same twister that devastated portions of Haysville, Wichita and Andover.
Smith says that video caused “a great many problems,” because it gave people the incorrect impression that it was safe to take shelter under a bridge.