TORNADOES STRIKE TEXAS

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Walter Hays, Global Alliance for

Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

TORNADO ALLEY MAP

As many as a dozen tornadoes touched down in the Dallas-Fort

Worth, Texas area while hundreds of thousands watched the life and death drama unfold

on live television.

Several hundred homes were

destroyed, some within seconds, and 13,000 homes were left without power as a result of wind, rain, and

hail, but, incredibly, NO DEATHS AND RELATIVELY FEW INJURIES

were reported.

POWERFUL TORNADOES TOUCH DOWN IN DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA

ONE OF THE FUNNEL CLOUDS

30 TON TRACTOR TRAILER TOSSED IN THE AIR

30 TON TRACTOR TRAILER OVERTURNED ON INTERSTATE 20

EXAMPLE OF THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF THE WIND

SEARCH AND RESCUE BEGINS

All incoming and outgoing flights were cancelled; stranded

passengers were sheltered temporarily at the airport.

REMEMBERING 2008

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SYSTEM SPAWNS TORNADOES IN TEXAS:APRIL 24, 2008

SUPERCELL

FUNNEL

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SYSTEM IMPACTS WEST AND NORTH TEXAS•WORST DAMAGE NEAR FT WORTH, TX WITH LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $35 MILLION

•WINDS REACH 70 MILES PER HOUR

•HEAVY RAIN FALL CAUSES POWER OUTAGES AND MINOR FLOODING

•BASEBALL-SIZED HAIL

WIND DAMAGE