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Smalltowner · Jul 1, 2018

I know a farmer who was there, said the wind
blistered his skin and destroyed 90 acres of cotton.
Satan s storm in Texas 1960

Steve@Advance · Jul 1, 2018

I barely remember my parents talking about that when I was a kid, would have been 5 years old.

Rumor was it must have had something to do with Russia and some secret attack!

I don't know if the weather people knew what caused it back then, but now it's known as a rare "heat burst" caused by a nearby thunder storm collapse. In fact, one happened just a couple weeks ago near Breckenridge and Eastland TX. Temperatures went from 85* at midnight but by 1:00 a.m., it was 99*! There was also a 50 MPH wind and the humidity dropped to 10%.

I live just south of Ft Worth, and that morning I noticed there had been a strong wind during the night, though there had been no storm or rain.
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