Waco, Texas: May 11, 1953 - hot and muggy conditions made it's way across Texas by 9:30 am, and by mid-afternoon, tornadoes began touching ground. At 4:10 pm, the Texan city of Waco was hit by an unpredictably strong tornado, being at least a third of a mile in width. For meteorologists, sending out tornado warnings was increasingly difficult, as the city was hit with a violent rain storm - making it difficult to see any twisters that could be approaching. The Waco tornado left a 23 mile tail of destruction, killing 114 people in it's path. The cost of overall damage was roughly $41 million dollars, around $310 million today.
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