This week we remember the massive tornado that tore through Lubbock, Texas on May 11th 1970, leaving 26 dead, $1.48 billion (in 2013 dollars) in damages, and dozens of homes and businesses destroyed.
This event behaved as a sad, but necessary, catalyst for the F-scale (see EF-scale), a tornado rating system based on post-tornado event damage assessments, produced by Dr. Ted Fujita. It also helped to justify the development of the Wind Science and Engineering (WISE) Research Center at Texas Tech University.
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