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Since 1950, there have been more than 9,700 tornadoes in Texas, killing hundreds and leaving behind billions of dollars worth of damage. On March 21, 2022, a tornado tore through Round Rock ...
May 11, 1953 – Amid a larger outbreak, three tornadoes touched down across the state, including an F5 that struck Waco in McLennan County, killing 114 people and injuring 597 others. This made it the deadliest tornado in state history, along with the 1902 Goliad tornado. Across Waco, the tornado damaged or destroyed more than 1,600 buildings. [6]
A diagram of tornado alley based on 1 tornado or more per decade. Rough location (red), and its contributing weather systems. Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1]
According to the National Weather Service, Texas averages 137 tornadoes each year, the most of any state in the country.
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
An EF4 tornado hit the town of Granbury, Texas in Hood County around 8 p.m. CDT, damaging or destroying around 100 homes and killing six people, with the most severe damage occurring in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood; the Granbury storm was the first violent tornado to hit North Texas since an F4 tornado killed three people in Lancaster in ...
1953 Waco tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953; 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak; List of tornadoes in the outbreak sequence of April 2–5, 1957; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 2–5, 1957; Tornado outbreak of May 24–25, 1957; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–23, 1957; May 1960 tornado outbreak sequence
Tornado Alley, a cluster of states in the central U.S. where tornadoes are most likely to occur, is shifting eastward, according to recent research from Northern Illinois University.. Typically ...