Wichita Falls Texas Tornado - April 10 1979

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This tornado was the most recognized of the Red River Valley outbreak (often referred to as "Terrible Tuesday"). Rated F4, it killed 42 people. This twister was unique in a couple of different ways. It caused a wide area of continuous F4 damage, and at times was as tall as it was wide, giving off the appearance of a simply massive tornado, which is evident in certain parts of the clip. For a video of another tornado spawned by the same storm as this one, check out the Seymour, Texas tornado.

Some rarely seen footage of the tornado is shown near the end.

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• Wichita
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• Texas
• 1979
• Terrible
• Tuesday
• Red
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• Valley
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• environment

[doriachris]

the tornado was a Ef4 it was not a 5 but i may be wrong

[ColleenPinksand]

@MissMaddy881 F5

[MissMaddy881]

*what was this tornado? i'd say F3, but i might be wrong.

[MissMaddy881]

what was this tornado? it looks like a 

[MissMaddy881]

@ShellyeJo yeah, :55 is so creepy! my parents were married at this time and i wasn't born until 1990.

[ShellyeJo]

@DiRiddles

You are right about it being in the afternoon. It was right around the time school was letting out and it got so dark it looked like midnight. It was so creepy.

[ShellyeJo]

@frazzledjt

So sorry that you lost your great grandmother to this storm. :(

[ShellyeJo]

@metalixmillenium15

I ran to the grocery store across the street from our house because I knew there were adults there. I lost my flip flop in the mud and the store put us all in the back room where there were no windows. Thankfully the tornado actually skipped over our part of town because if it had hit the store, we probably would have died.

[AJTwister97]

you do realize that some of this footage is the binger tornado, right?

[DiRiddles]

@MRBIGRED35

Actually, it is 50 miles between the two. I was born in Lawton but I was living in Wichita Falls when this tornado hit.