56th Anniversary of Lubbock F5 Tornado
56 years ago tonight, Lubbock’s history was forever altered when a killer F5 tornado struck our city around 9:30 PM. 26 neighbors lost their lives to one of the strongest tornadoes to strike our state, with more than 1,500 people being injured. The Lubbock Tornado memorial was completed back in 2021, and is an official historical marker memorializing that fateful night. This tornado remains the most recent F5 that has directly struck the downtown of a major city. This event serves as a reminder that large cities are not immune to violent tornadoes. Many Lubbock residents believed such an occurrence was not possible at the time. Unfortunately, many have fallen back to that same belief just 56 short years later. #Lubbock #Tornado #F5
u/jrileywx — 3 days ago