Charles Barthold is a news photographer for WHO-TV out of Des Moines, Iowa who won the 1976 Peabody Award for his film and photography of The Jordan Tornado in Jordan, Iowa. WHO-TV is a Television station that broadcasts on channel 13 in Des Moines Iowa. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting The film and video he shot allowed famed University of Chicago meteorologist Ted Fujita to clearly see that one of the tornados was, in fact an anticyclonic tornado. was a severe storms researcher of the twentieth century Born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, he studied at Kyushu Institute of Technology An anticyclonic tornado is a Tornado which rotates in a Clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a Counterclockwise direction in the The Barthold film was the first time that such a tornado had been captured on film and opened up a branch of tornado study to determine how the anticyclonic vortex formed.
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