Tornados in Texas

[58limited]

Bob

I must say the Temple area is a pretty active tornado area. When I lived in north Dallas (Plano), near the Oklahoma epicenter of tornado alley, we didn't have as many tornadoes as when I moved to Temple. We seemed to dodge tornadoes all the time in the 4 years I lived there: My dad saw one as he was entering TI (it flipped a couple of cars in Belton), one came from the direction of Lake Belton and passed to the north of our apartments. We couldn't see it, but the flags in front of the apartments pointed to it - we watched them point to the west and then slowly move like the hands on a clock to point to the northeast. It damaged a barn toward Troy. Several other times we were under tornado warnings - once there were sitings on all four sides of us. The town of Jarrell to the south had two hit the area when I lived in Temple, one an F4 that destroyed a lot of the town and killed several people.

My dad lived in Waco when the 1953 tornado struck, killing 114. He remembers shooting the hail stones with a BB gun just before the tornado hit.

 

[appnut]

David,

See my email. I remember both Jarell tornadoes, the F4 was ihn 1996, the first one somewhere between 1992 & 1994, one of my coworkers husband was doing a residency at S&W at the time and they'd grown up in Witchita Falls, need I say more. I remember a couple of times in the late 1980s, driving down The Loop and seeing green clouds. Anotehr time, I was late to work, as was somewhat normal then, and I remember seeing a wall of green clouds out the bath room window as I was getting ready to take a shower. I took the shower, but I think "it' passed overhead, was eerie.

 

[58limited]

The day my dad saw the tornado, I was at Temple Junior College. Me and a friend were talking in the parking lot and saw a really black cloud over Belton. I remember telling my friend that there could be a tornado over there, later confirmed by my dad's siting.

 

[exploder3211]

Ughh.. We do get them here as well, but I havent seen one yet.. Glad to here every one is ok