Is Frisco, Texas in tornado alley? (Houston, Dallas: homes, living in, moving to)

[RB123]

I live in Florida right now, but I am moving to Frisco, Texas around next year with my parents. I heard that northern Texas and Oklahoma get the biggest and most deadliest tornadoes in the world. Is this true?

I also would like to know about Houston, Texas. Does Houston have better weather than Frisco? Is Houston a nicer place?

[KantLockeMeIn]

Southern end of Tornado Alley, but central Florida gets a fair number of tornados compared to here as well. But you won't see the hurricanes like in Florida, or Houston.

[hamiltonpl]

Houston gets Hurricanes. Dallas gets tornadoes.

Pick your poison.

[GiveMeLiberty]

Lived in both towns - Houston is inland 60+ miles so it will never get hit like Miami, just a lot of rain. Have been in DFW area 10 years - once once has a tornado hit the area - Ft Worth to get it. Never seen anything in Frisco. Houston is incredible humid\bad polution. Go with Frisco! Summers are hot but much more drier and bearable.

[RB123]

Thanks for the information. I heard very good things about Frisco. I was just a little worried about it being in tornado alley.

[socketz]

All of the DFW area is in Tornado alley technically.

http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornadoalley.jpg

[KantLockeMeIn]

I lived in Richmond, VA and we got hit with Hurricane Isabel which made landfall in North Carolina... much more than 60 miles from us... and it was a nightmare. We were without power for 9 days, trees piled up about 8 feet high blocking the driveway. Damage for the whole extended metro area, not just a few blocks here and there.

While Houston may be inland, I wouldn't say that it's exactly protected.

[destin04]

I've lived in Houston...I've lived most of my life the Frisco/Richardson/Dallas area...The DFW area has Houston beat all to heck. I was stuck in flood waters 4 times in Houston......I'll take my chance w/ tornados any day of the week.

[stargazer]

Hey I lived through Charley , Frances and Jeanne . Charely ripped through my property and actually had a small twister come through and twist my pines up. I know the power of what a hurricane can do first hand through the experience of Charley a category 2 strength by the time it reached Orlando. I lived northeast of Orlando and Charley entered at Punta Gorda on the gulf coast over 200 miles away. Living in Florida made me realize that a hurricane can do much damage inland and Houston would be no exception if a big one was to hit.

As far a tornados go, yes we have them here in DFW and usually the spring time is when it happens however a tornado is hit or miss and rare. Many homes here that have built for years and no tornado has touched them. I would not worry about that though. I know there are people here who can back that up as well. Twisters can happen anywhere in Texas. The worst was down on the border a few days ago in Eagle Pass and in Mexico in Pedras Negras. It always seems to me that the more deadly ones are more south of us due to the warm air meeting the cold.

Here is my property ( I don't own it anymore)
Before Charley The Drive



The drive after

[KewGee]

Check out this site for the top ten deadliest tornadoes in Texas as well as 19 others in the state with a death toll of more than a dozen people:

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/html/for-svr4.htm (broken link)