North Texas's top 10 Weather Events-
 

http://www.kdfwfox4.com/dynamic/story.asp?category=194
Fox-4 News' list-

NUMBER 10: May 4, 1989 - The Derecho
Overnight, a large and powerful storm, called a "derecho", swept from Amarillo to New Orleans, at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. It traveled 900 miles in 15 hours. Its winds cut power to hundreds of thousands of people along its path, 200,000 in Tarrant County alone.

NUMBER 9: April 28, 1992 - Hailstorm
On April 28, 1992, intense storms dropped hail up to 4-1/2" inches in diameter across Tarrant, Dallas and Ellis counties. Total damage was around $600 million, the costliest ever at the time, and a scary foreshadowing of worse storms to follow. The hail damaged more than 15,000 homes and 21,000 vehicles.

NUMBER 8: April 5, 2003 - The Triple Supercell
The Saturday Night Special of April 5, 2003 involved not just one, but three separate storms. All were supercells, and all traveled along the very same path, west-to-east across the border that separates Wise, Denton and Collin counties to the north, from Parker, Tarrant and Dallas counties to the south. The triple-supercell caused more than $1 billion in damage. ((I got a new roof out of this deal, $12,000 in damage.))

NUMBER 7: The 1996 Flash Flood
Flash floods are weather's deadliest killers, and two such events make our Top 10. The first, on April 28, 1966, killed 14 people, as almost five inches of rain fell over Dallas in less than an hour. The ground was already saturated from recent rains, so the new rain had nowhere to go.

NUMBER 6: The Paris Tornado
Surveys show that our Red River counties are most prone to tornadoes. The Paris tornado of April 2, 1982, was tied to an outbreak of 56 tornadoes that day. The F4-rated tornado killed 10 people, destroyed 1,500 homes and left 3,000 homeless. Another tornado that day, a 1.5-mile wide F5, ripped through parts of Oklahoma.

NUMBER 5: The Lancaster Tornado
Another F4 tornado ripped through Lancaster on the evening of April 25, 1994. The tornado was wrapped in a rain shaft and therefore very difficult to see, but accurate forecasting, along with timely warnings, gave people plenty of time to take cover. Even though much of downtown Lancaster was leveled, only 3 people were killed.

NUMBER 4: The Fort Worth/Arlington Tornadoes
Everyone remembers the March 2000 tornadoes that struck downtown Fort Worth and southern Arlington. The F3 tornadoes killed 5 people, but the funnel in Fort Worth changed the very face of the city. Among the buildings severely damaged were the BankOne Tower (now renamed "The Tower" and rebuilt as condos), the CashAmerica Tower and the Mallick Tower. For more information on the 2000 tornadoes, click here.

NUMBER 3: The 1957 Dallas Tornado
If you lived in Dallas in 1957, you definitely remember the April 2 tornado that tore through Oak Cliff and West Dallas neighborhoods. The damage was F3 at its worst, but the tornado killed 10 people and injured 200 others. The twister narrowly missed Parkland Hospital, where most of the injured would converge moments later. This tornado was filmed virtually from birth to death and provides one of the earliest comprehensive video records of a tornado's life cycle. The tornado crossed over the ground that is now Stemmons Freeway just before 5pm. Given the traffic on Stemmons today, if a tornado were to take the same path at the same time, the death toll could be enormous.

NUMBER 2: The Mayfest Storm
The Mayfest storm of May 5, 1995, may well have been one of the most ferocious thunderstorms that never produced a tornado. More than 1,000 people at Fort Worth's Mayfest celebration were caught outdoors and pelted by baseball-size hail. As the storm moved 20 miles east into Dallas County, it changed from a hailmaker to a rainmaker. The flash flooding killed 17 people. Altogether, the Mayfest storm caused $2 billion in damage, one of the costliest storms of any type in history.

NUMBER 1: The DFW Airport Downburst
Our top severe weather event of all-time wasn't that severe of a storm, but it had a disastrous impact on people's lives then, and people's lives even today. On August 2, 1985, a supercell storm formed just north of DFW Airport during the evening rush hour. A Delta L-1011 jet making final approach to DFW flew through the storm, but encountered a small undetectable downburst wind. The downburst caused the plane, only a few hundred feet above the ground, to plummet. Before the pilots could correct the plane...137 people lost their lives... amazingly 30 people in the plane survived.

We put the Delta crash tops on our list partly because of its contribution to aviation safety features we all benefit from even today. After Delta 191, the government invested millions of dollars in ground-level wind sensors placed all around major airports.

Hey Hersh, what about that tornado that killed a few people a day or two ago? What part of town was that in?


O.T. - Do you know if the area around hwy 183 & Esters (between DFW airport & Tx stadium) is decent? I'm gonna be up there for Memorial Day weekend May 26-29 and I'm trying to decide if I wanna drive or ride w/ someone. The majority of the time I'm gonna be inside the Clarion Hotel South in the ballroom and I know my truck ain't all that but I don't want it getting jacked with.

that area isnt bad at all. if you were to go further south, then maybe.

Cool, thanks. I'm gonna be here
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Sorry for the derail
Now back to North Texas top 10 weather disasters

Over by those hotels is OK. It's not a bad part of town in terms of criminal activity, it's just well-worn, it looks kinda old over there, especially coming from over where I am. (About 20-30 miles away, but still in the same metro area). It's well worn because it's so close to the airport, and it doesn't seem Irving local gov't reinvests in it's streets like other cities (Richardson, Plano, Frisco, etc..) does. My wife works in Irving, so I see that area often, her cousin lived off of 183 & Esters, it's an older (not as nice looking) area...

My sister stayed in that area for a week, and no one touched her car (Honda Accord) when she was on a Co-Op trip with her company. If I had thought it was unsafe, I'd have had her stay here, and drove her to Irving the days she was here...

The F-150 (Like the Accord) is one of the most stolen vehicles in this area. If you have an alarm on it (flashy light/deterrent), it shouldn't be a problem.

Don't leave your radar detector in your windshield when yu park (Escort/Valantine 1), you remember what happened to me last year...

Thanks, I usually hide anything thats loose in the cab. It's either take my S-cab or try to stuff three good sized people inside a 'Yota Echo. I think it'll be my truck. :lol:

I know it's not north Texas, but do yall remember the Wichita Falls tornado? F5. I'll never forget it. I was a little kid and seeing that stuff on the news back when they had real news and it left an etched memory in my mind. I am somewhat a weather buff since that day. That was a trip.

I just said yall and a trip in the same paragraph, sorry.:lol:

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Oh yeah, I remember that, and I was in Louisiana; but, still a weather nut... That was 1979, if memory serves. I was 10, well, 9 going on 10.

I was 9 going on 10 back then too, we're getting old, man!:lol:

I was 3 :D

I know, I turned 37 today. (May 12th).

happy birthday..I turn 30 Sunday...OMG, I will be considered old... :(

But atleast your a cowboys fan!!!

I'm older, my daughter turns 17 in June, same month I turn 36.:lol: