Tornados in Dallas (Haltom City, Benbrook, Rockwall: crime, credit report, college)

[socketz]

I'd probably like Fort Worth as well, just never been taken around out there.

[minniemouse]

In Italy, on newspaper, I readed some days ago that this summer, it's a big season about Tornados in Texas.
Do you have any news?

I met a tornado 1 time in Florida, on summer (August 2004). Hurricane Charley . It's a strange experience because I have seen it only TV and I didn't know how has happened but I was lucky because I was in a good hotel and the damages were only at plants.

[Madeline]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Just an FYI for all of you folks that think Dallas is "Tornado Alley" and we have them ALL THE TIME. The LAST tornado to touch the ground in Dallas was in 1957! I heard this over the weekend and thought I would pass it on to relieve some of your fears. Hear is a story about it (check out wfaa.com and search for "tornado in dallas" and you will find more info).

1957: Dallas tornado
'It seemed like it lasted forever'

07/03/2002

By KIMBERLY DURNAN / Dallas Web Staff


The Dallas tornado of 1957 whipped the city with fury like none had before and none have since.


Around 3 p.m. on April 2, 1957, the tornado blew in from the southwest and cut a 16-mile path through the city, killing 10, racking up $4 million in damages and leaving hundreds without a home.


The twister started in the Hampton Road area, traveled to a seven-block area of Chalmers and Superior streets before it tore up sections of Oak Cliff, west and northwest Dallas and then disappeared over Bachman Lake.


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Sam Barricklow, now a storm chaser, recalled that he was 6 years old when he spotted the tornado from his Oak Cliff home.


“The tornado was passing about two miles west of our home,” Mr. Barricklow told The Dallas Morning News in 1998. “I could see debris above the house across the street. I could see the clouds swirling, and there were close strikes of lightning. It was unsettling.”


Dallas historian Ken Holmes said he was a child when the tornado bore down on Dallas.

“We were six blocks from Polk Street,” he said. “My mother started screaming, ‘It’s a tornado, it’s a tornado,’ and we got in the bathtub with a mattress over our heads. It seemed like it lasted forever.”


Parkland Hospital was untouched by the tornado, but saw 175 patients in two hours that day.

I was at work in an office building (Adolphus Towers) and we watched it out our office window. It did not rip thru the city, it went thru the Industrial Park area. Nothing was damaged "in the city" but we were very concerned that it would be.

[dallas,texas]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Yep. Remember that one, it was a Friday night. My husband played softball on Friday nights and we all had been out at the ballfields in Garland and it was great weather. Mayfair in Ft Worth was going on that weekend. Then the storms blew thru after we got home. It was bad and I remember someone got killed in it. It did not hail anywhere else in the metroplex that night. The worst hail storm I was in was a few years ago one evening. We got hit TWICE by two different waves and they came down in different directions so if your vehicle was parked outside it got damage ALL THE WAY AROUND! The stones were big and jagged, they were NOT your normal smooth hail stones. They ripped everything to shreds. Windows got knocked out in one neighborhood by us. Everyones roofs in northeast Garland, Richardson, Plano and Allen got destroyed. The insurance companies sent in their disaster teams to cover all of the claims.

mom, was that hailstorm you were in on April 30t? I remember that one. We hall had to back away from the windows, but luckily they didn't break. I remember seeing baseball size hail that day. Im not sure what year it was. Maybe 04'?

[Synopsis]

I think momof2 is talking about the May 5th, 1995 hailstorm. I lived in West Fort Worth at the time and remember it well. Afterwards all of the cars in the area looked like they had literally been beaten to the ground with sledgehammers. Massive damage everywhere with hail the size of softballs in some cases; even some people were killed if I remember correctly.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by minniemouse

In Italy, on newspaper, I readed some days ago that this summer, it's a big season about Tornados in Texas.
Do you have any news?

I met a tornado 1 time in Florida, on summer (August 2004). Hurricane Charley . It's a strange experience because I have seen it only TV and I didn't know how has happened but I was lucky because I was in a good hotel and the damages were only at plants.

I can't remember what month you said you would be visiting Texas, but you don't have to worry about tornadoes as much in the summer. Sometimes, we can only hope for rain especially in July and August.

The worst time of the year is now for tornadoes, Spring time, from March through June. That is not to say that they can't happen any time. We had a bad outbreak of them at the end of December, so one really never knows.

This past Friday, there was another bad weather day especially in the DFW area where tornadoes were reported and many people were injured. As far as I know, only one death was reported.

They're not fun and too bad you had to meet one during your visit to Florida.

[minniemouse]

Originally Posted by KewGee

I can't remember what month you said you would be visiting Texas, but you don't have to worry about tornadoes as much in the summer. Sometimes, we can only hope for rain especially in July and August.

The worst time of the year is now for tornadoes, Spring time, from March through June. That is not to say that they can't happen any time. We had a bad outbreak of them at the end of December, so one really never knows.

This past Friday, there was another bad weather day especially in the DFW area where tornadoes were reported and many people were injured. As far as I know, only one death was reported.

They're not fun and too bad you had to meet one during your visit to Florida.

I'm visiting Texas in August. Ok, now, I'm more quiet Thanks!

In Florida, I was lucky because I met it only 1 day and after, our itineray were different to tornado journey. It was a strange experience
We were very lucky!

[jacob]

The probability of your house getting hit by a tornado in a given year is 1 in 10 million.
So approximately, 1 in 100,000 in a lifetime.

Compared to that, chances of a violent crime (rape, robbery, assault, homicide) are 1 in 50, and chances of cancer are 1 in 200, chances of going bankrupt is 1 in 350, and chances of having a fatal car accident are 1 in 10000.

http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/tor_p...nado_prob.html

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by jacob

The probability of your house getting hit by a tornado in a given year is 1 in 10 million.
So approximately, 1 in 100,000 in a lifetime.

Compared to that, chances of a violent crime (rape, robbery, assault, homicide) are 1 in 50, and chances of cancer are 1 in 200, chances of going bankrupt is 1 in 350, and chances of having a fatal car accident are 1 in 10000.

http://www.flame.org/~cdoswell/tor_p...nado_prob.html

Thanks, that really brightned up my day!

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

I think momof2 is talking about the May 5th, 1995 hailstorm. I lived in West Fort Worth at the time and remember it well. Afterwards all of the cars in the area looked like they had literally been beaten to the ground with sledgehammers. Massive damage everywhere with hail the size of softballs in some cases; even some people were killed if I remember correctly.

That's the one. It was the big Cinco de Mayo celebration going on in Ft Worth when it came thru. It still gets brought up in the news to this day.


The one in Garland that we got a good hit w/ the hail was I think in 2003. That one was pretty widespread w/ Richardson, Plano & Garland all getting hit pretty bad.