I have a vague memory of seeing the debris and a house with only pipes left standing (was a pre-schooler at the time). We not as unlucky as the family whose kids stayed home to prepare for their mom's birthday and 6 died. Tragic, incredible, F5 massive tornado. 50 yrs ago our street was cleared enough for us to return home.
I really hate strong winds and air raid/tornado sirens, and tornadoes have fascinated me.
Are there any others here who went through this?
Edited to add some interesting historical bit:
http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/events/side_events_hon_mentions.htmlFargo, North Dakota, F5 Tornado of June 20, 1957
On June 20, 1957, an F5 tornado passed through north Fargo, North Dakota, killing 13 people and injuring over 100. It traveled nine miles, badly damaging or destroying over 1,300 homes along the way. According to Dr. Ted Fujita of the University of Chicago, this tornado was filmed and photographed more than any other for its time.
Dr. Fujita conducted a major investigation and did some of his groundbreaking work on the Fargo tornado that would allow meteorologists to classify tornado according to their level of severity–the F-Scale (Fujita scale). In 1960, he published results of his investigation in a paper entitled “A Detailed Analysis of the Fargo Tornadoes of June 20, 1957.” In addition, he was able to determine that the Fargo tornado was one in a family of five tornadoes, produced by a long-lived cyclic supercell. Fujita also analyzed photographs of the tornado, and computed both rotational velocities and other values of wind speed within the wall cloud and tornado. This had never been done before, and was possible from the more than 200 photographs and numerous films of the event that he studied. His pioneering work on this tornado was ground breaking, and is proof that the strongest tornadoes can occur in the Northern Plains. The data that Fujita gathered on the Fargo tornado allowed him to later quantify tornado damage on the F-Scale in 1971
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