50th Anniversary of the Dallas Tornado

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50th Anniversary of the Dallas Tornado

#1 Postby TexasStooge » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:31 pm

[font=Arial]It has been 50 years since an F4 tornado touched down in the Oak Cliff suburb of Dallas. This twister killed 10 people, injured 216, and destroyed over $4 Million in property.

The Dallas Morning News has written a long article abot the "Oak Cliff Tornado", this is the first of 2 parts.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 2cddd.html

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#2 Postby Aslkahuna » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:14 am

Photogrammetric studies of the newsreel footage gave the first reliable estimates of windspeeds in tornadoes.

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#3 Postby vbhoutex » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:18 am

Aslkahuna wrote:Photogrammetric studies of the newsreel footage gave the first reliable estimates of windspeeds in tornadoes.

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Did those agree with the fujita ratings?
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#4 Postby Aslkahuna » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:36 pm

Considering that Fujita used such studies in developing his scale I would say yes.

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#5 Postby CrazyC83 » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:10 pm

Today is an anniversary of a bunch of memorable outbreaks.

50 years ago - Dallas tornado

30 years ago - Southern Michigan tornadoes, last F4 in the state

25 years ago - Major central US outbreak (52 tornadoes)

1 year ago - Major southern/midwestern US outbreak (66 tornadoes)
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