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	Waco Tornado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Waco Tornado was the tornado that hit in Waco, Texas on May 11, 1953.
		According to an old Native American legend, tornadoes could not hit in Waco.
		The Waco Tornado remains Texas' deadliest in its history and the nation's tenth deadliest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waco_Tornado (197 words)

	Tornado records - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Waco Tornado - May 11, 1953 - 114 dead.
		Biggest outbreak of tornadoes: The Super Outbreak, in which 148 tornadoes affected 13 states and one Canadian province on April 3 and 4, 1974.
		Slowest years for tornado outbreaks: Probably the 10 most insignificant years of the last 50 for tornado outbreaks were 1994, 1988, 1986, 1983, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1972, 1969, and 1954.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tornado_records (728 words)

	top ten deadliest tornado
		Tornado number 8 formed somewhere close to the town of Zephyr, in Brown County, near midnight and destroyed large parts of the town during the early morning hours, leaving little to view except vacant lots.
		Not much is known of the tornado path, except that most deaths occurred in the residential areas on the south and east sides of the town.
		This tornado was studied and mapped in detail by Professor Fujita, and was an important key in the development of his Fujita Scale.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /ama/html/for-svr4.htm (1034 words)

	Tornado-Reality Check (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tornado forecasts were issued in the form we know now as "watches" and the newly-developed tool of weather radar, combined with the development of citizen volunteer spotter programs soon permitted tornado "warnings" to be issued: short-fuse alerts to the presence of tornadoes.
		As noted, the tornado watches certainly do not catch every tornado, and if someone happens to get unlucky and their home is hit by a weak tornado that slips through the watch/warning safety net, all the statistics in the world are not much consolation.
		If a violent tornado moves through a populated region (as in the case of a particular tornado in Arkansas on 01 March 1997), even with the optimum combination of watches and warning (which is about what the NWS actually accomplished on that day), people almost certainly will be killed.
	webserv.chatsystems.com /~doswell/Tornado_essay.html (9819 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 1135)
		Tornadoes killed 805 people in 1925 and 555 died as a result of tornadoes in 1936.
		By the time it reached Waco, the tornado was moving almost due north, cutting a path of destruction a third of a mile wide through the heart of the city.
		Named the Flint-Beecher tornado, it is memorable for being the last tornado in the United States (as of this writing) to claim more than 100 fatalities.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s1135.htm (1148 words)

	Texas Tornado Facts - Texas Tornado Storm Shelters
		The primary tornado season in Texas is from March through June, but tornados can occur in any month of the year.
		Tornados often form in the southwest part of thunderstorms - next to the part of the storm where heavy rain or hail is falling.
		Tornados are not the only weather killers in Texas: Lightning, tornados and high winds take an average of 15 lives each year in Texas alone.
	tornadostormshelters.com /Facts.htm (719 words)

	Flint-Worcester Tornadoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The tornado moved east-northeast 2 miles north of Flushing, Michigan and devastated the north side of Flint.
		The storm system that created the Flint tornado moved east and another tornado hit in Worcester, Massachusetts in the early afternoon hours on June 9, 1953.
		Even though the 1953 tornado season only saw 422 tornadoes (which is half the nationwide average), the year saw some of the deadliest tornadoes, which included the Waco Tornado that hit on May 11.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/import-export.html (326 words)

	FEMA: Top Ten U.S. Killer Tornadoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tornado damage stretched from Reynolds, Iron, Madison, Bollinger, Cape Girardeau and Perry counties in Missouri, through Jackson, Williamson, Franklin, Hamilton, and White counties in Illinois and Posey, Gibson and Pike counties in Indiana.
		The death toll from the tornado is undoubtedly higher than officially listed, as many slave deaths were probably not included in the total.
		The Woodward Tornado hit Gray, Roberts, Hemphill, Lipscomb counties in Texas, Ellis, Woodward and Woods counties in Oklahoma and Barber and Kingman counties in Kansas.
	www.fema.gov /hazards/tornadoes/presskit6.shtm (474 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Waco marks 50th anniversary of Texas' deadliest twister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		WACO, Texas —; On a hot, humid afternoon in May 1953, Ted Lucenay took a break from his job and walked across the street to get a newspaper.
		The Waco tornado caused more than $50 million in damage in its 23-mile path, up to a third of a mile wide.
		Waco began renovating its urban area through federal grants and focused on tourist attractions, including a zoo, the Texas Ranger Museum and Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,500032809,00.html (940 words)

	timeline: costliest/deadliest/strongest tornadoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The "New Richmond Tornado" began as a waterspout on Lake St. Croix and moved as a cyclone toward New Richmond, Wisconsin.
		A tornado struck Louisville, Kentucky shortly after 8:30pm at a speed of 40 mph and a width of 300 yards, killing 106 people (76 in Louisville proper) and causing $3.5 million in damage.
		The rating of this tornado is unknown; pre-1870 tornadoes were not given a Fujita scale rating.
	www.e11th-hour.org /resources/timelines/10.costliest.tornadoes.us.html (1605 words)

	North Central Texas Weather Calender: May
		Up to that time it was the most destructive tornado Texas with 135 million dollars worth of damage.
		On the 11th and 12th Waco received 7.18" of rain, which was the greatest 24 hour total on record for the city.
		This tornado ties the Waco tornado of 1953 for the most deaths from a single tornado in Texas.
	www.srh.noaa.gov /fwd/CLIMO/annreview/maycalender.html (912 words)

	Historical Tornado Events
		It is remembered for one tornado which traveled 219 miles from Ellington, Missouri across the southern tip of Illinois to Princeton, Indiana, killing 695.
		The worst tornado of the event was an F5 tornado that razed the town of Glazier, Texas.
		May 5, 2003 More than a dozen tornadoes rip though Kansas, Missouri and Tennessee flattening several towns and leaving 41 dead Some of the hardest hit by F4 tornadoes were Pierce City, MO, Stockton, MO and Jackson, TN.
	www.ezl.com /~fireball/Disaster15.htm (1211 words)

	North Central Skywarn Operations Emergency Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Thus, it seems that the peak threat from tornadoes was reached sometime relatively soon after the turn of the century, with the growth of population in the main tornado-prone areas of the United States in an era when radio communication was still relatively new technology.
		The tornado day total is probably close to its actual value (it's already attained about half the absolute maximum possible), whereas I believe the annual tornado count may well double or even triple before the numbers correspond to the actual occurrence totals.
		Tornadoes only are important when they are actually present at the ground, often masked from view by the inescapable curvature of the earth's surface.
	www.loraincounty.net /skywarn/torn.htm (6941 words)

	Tornado Tidbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She heard the tornado, roaring like "a freight train bearing down." She tried to talk to her mother and 5-year-old daughter, both of whom were also huddled in the closet, but the full-throated roar drowned out their speech.
		The bed where she had been peacefully sleeping, before she was suddenly roused, was buried deep under a six-foot-high mound of bricks that fell when the chimney collapsed.
		This tornado ranks among the ten worst in the history of Oklahoma, and the only one on that list that occurred outside of a spring month.
	members.aol.com /gilcopub/tbit-22.html (340 words)

	The Weather Doctor Almanac 2003: The Worcester Tornado of 1953
		The tornado to which I refer is the Worcester, Massachusetts tornado half a century ago on June 9, 1953.
		The tornado season of 1953 was one of the worst on record in the American storm annals.
		Tornado forecasting for public warnings was only in its first full year of implementation, and some resulting in panic in other regions of the country.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc2003/alm03jun.htm (1780 words)

	Top Ten US Killer Tornadoes
		This massive tornado leveled a home near Lorena, passed near Hewitt, moved north-northeast, devastating downtown Waco, Texas, then lifted east of Axtell.
		Homes were "leveled" both north and south of Waco, but detailed information is difficult to obtain.
		All content, text, and graphics on these pages are the property of The Tornado Project and may not be reproduced, electronically or otherwise unless specified.
	www.tornadoproject.com /toptens/10.htm (243 words)

	Storm that killed 114 still remembered in Waco
		WACO (AP) - According to an old Indian legend, a tornado could never hit Waco.
		Pictures taken after the tornado show crinkled buildings and a destruction hard to relate to the stately streets of downtown.
		LucenaycsskendrnetskgfirLucenayThe tornado became a landmark in city history, changing both residents and the city itself forever.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/051297/storm.htm (293 words)

	Tornado Tidbit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		That morning a government forecast warned of possible tornadoes over a ragged quadrilateral in north-central Texas, with Waco anchoring one of the four corners.
		One circumstance that made this tornado notable was the fact that it tore through the downtown of a city, and so created large piles of debris.
		A multi-story building that collapsed buried a switchboard operator under fifteen feet of rubble, and she was trapped for 14 hours.
	members.aol.com /gilcopub/tbit-10.html (510 words)

	Texas Tornadoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Tornadoes can touch down in hilly areas, although they may not be as strong.
		The tornado that hit Topeka, Kansas on June 8th, 1966 was NOT slowed down by high rise structures or hills.
		Same is true in the case study of the Andover tornado which formed over McConnell AFB as a single vortex tornado, but in it's mature stage of developement became a massive vortex tornado.
	users.ev1.net /~w5www/tornado.html (1425 words)

	The Weather Notebook \| Waco Tornado
		This one went right for the heart of downtown Waco, and that made it the deadliest twister in Texas history.
		Even though Waco sits in the south part of Tornado Alley, the city lies just to the east of some bluffs on the Brazos River.
		This was the first full year that tornado watches were issued, and Waco was included in one.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/2003/05/12.php (302 words)

	NOAA Marks 50th Anniversary of Third Deadliest Year for Tornadoes
		Less than a month after the Waco tornado, another F5 monster ripped through portions of greater Flint, Mich. on June 8, killing 116 people and injuring 844 along a 27- mile path.
		This tornado was one of 10 that hit southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio that afternoon and evening.
		A comparison of the Flint-Beecher tornado of 1953 and the Moore-Oklahoma City (F5) tornado of May 3, 1999 – shows that both plowed through urban areas with similar population densities of about 2,000 residents per square mile.
	www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov /releases2003/may03/noaa03048.html (1112 words)

	Historical Tornadoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This tornado is not historic because of the damage it caused, but because it is one of the most photographed and studied in history.
		This tornado is significant in that subsequent studies of the event began a new era in the understanding and analysis of tornado damage, deaths, wind speeds, and multiple vortices.
		This tornado leveled the town of Inverness with 21 deaths and over 200 injuries, as 125 homes and 40 buildings were destroyed.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Lab/2430/histtor.html (1590 words)

	Waco, Texas RV Trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1866 the Waco Bridge Company was granted a 25-year charter to build a toll bridge here.
		Then, in 1889, the bridge was sold to McLennan County, which gave it to the city of Waco as a free bridge.
		This 22-story building was erected in 1911 by the Amicable Life Insurance Co. For many years the tallest building in the southwest, it withstood the 1953 Waco tornado.
	www.hal-pc.org /~lawson/jan2004.htm (1111 words)

	Winds Of Change: Historic Weather Meeting At Texas A&M 50 Years Ago Helped Establish National Radar Network
		In 1953, the Southern Region was called Region Two of the U.S. Weather Bureau and was a principal player in the meeting and operation of the Texas Radar Project.
		Texas A&M was involved because as the Waco tornado was destroying much of the city, it was actually observed on an early research radar that had been installed on campus, Smith says.
		"With the Waco tornado still fresh in their minds, they reasoned that a combined effort could have saved a lot of lives in what still remains the deadliest tornado in Texas history and the 10th deadliest in the nation."
	www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/03/062403-7.html (924 words)

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		The "Waco Tornado," an F5-rated twister that killed 114 people and injured 597 on May 11, 1953, was the deadliest tornado ever recorded in Texas.
		The 1/3-mile-wide tornado touched down nearly 10 miles south of Waco, damaging 600 businesses, 850 homes and 2,000 cars.
		This photo shows a man walking through rubble left by the tornado.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2004/tornadoes/interactive/gallery.top.10/content.11.html (56 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 1163)
		June 24, 2003 — Weather radar technology and storm warning procedures were still in their infancy when a devastating F5 tornado ripped through the heart of Waco, Texas, killing 114 people and injuring 600 more on May 11, 1953.
		“With the Waco Tornado fresh in their minds, they reasoned that a combined effort could have saved a lot of lives in what still remains the deadliest tornado in Texas history—and the tenth deadliest in the nation.”
		Some immediate results from the conference were the dispatching of highway patrol cars to investigate suspected storms (a forerunner of the NOAA National Weather Service SKYWARN storm spotter networks), improved communication between the Texas Public Safety Department and the Weather Bureau and programs to provide weather safety education for the public.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories/s1163.htm (1079 words)

	SSEC In the News - July 2001, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Siren’s tornado was an F3 in the Fujita tornado classification scheme.
		It was an F5, as was the tornado that hit Oakfield, WI in July 1996.
		The tornado amazingly nailed a circus in town, hence the high casualty rate.
	www.ssec.wisc.edu /media/July2001-1.html (1510 words)

	U-Haul Online - Venture Across America
		A massive pair of tornadoes moved east-northeast through downtown Gainesville at the start of the workday.
		The tornado virtually obliterated all homes on both sides of Coldwater Road for about a mile.
		This massive tornado leveled a home near Lorena, passed near Hewitt, moved north-northeast, devastating downtown Waco, then lifted east of Axtell.
	www.uhaul.com /supergraphics/tornado/storms_century.html (456 words)

	Waco History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Waco History Project is a joint effort to provide a resource base on Waco history and to generate curricula and other learning resources for teaching local history in the Waco and surrounding communities.
		In 1923, Waco physician Dr. Kenneth Hazen Aynesworth presented to Baylor University several hundred items from his personal collection of materials on Texas history.
		Although slavery arrived much later in Texas than it did in many other Southern states, the institution was certainly no stranger in Waco and Central Texas in the mid-1800s.
	www.historicwaco.org /WHP (461 words)

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