1922 Austin twin tornadoes

rdf:langString 1922 Austin twin tornadoes

rdf:langString First Austin tornado

rdf:langString Second Austin tornado

rdf:langString Austin, Texas, and surrounding communities

rdf:langString F4

rdf:langString F2

rdf:langString Elevated photograph of a distant tornado

rdf:langString Photographic postcard with a photo of the tornado

rdf:langString Map of the tornadoes's paths atop a topographic map

rdf:langString Paul T. Seashore

rdf:langString The second tornado as seen from the Main Building of the University of Texas, looking southwest

rdf:langString The first tornado developing over west Austin

rdf:langString The paths of the two tornadoes across Austin

rdf:langString ≥$300,000 ref|All monetary values in 1922 United States dollar unless otherwise noted.|group=nb

rdf:langString ≥$25,000

rdf:langString ≥$300,000

rdf:langString Monthly Weather Review

rdf:langString The approaching clouds were scarcely 5 miles away when I first became aware of the tornadic formative disturbance. In a position nearly due north a ragged edge, or that part which appears to an observer as being the bottom of the cloud had in one place dipped lower and had assumed the shape of a V with a slender thread-like appendage swinging from the bottom.

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rdf:langString On the afternoon of May 4, 1922, two simultaneous tornadoes struck Austin, Texas, taking unusual southwesterly paths that tore through the city and surrounding areas on both sides of the Colorado River. Meteorological details concerning the conditions that led to the event are sparse, though historical accounts described the morning and afternoon as sweltering; clouds percolated northeast of Austin by noon and had developed into thunderstorms over the city by around 4:00 p.m. The first tornado began in a rural area 6 mi (9.7 km) northwest of the Texas State Capitol and tracked across the Texas Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youth and Deep Eddy, injuring at least five people and causing around $25,000 in damage. The tornado was widely photographed and was estimated to have been an F2 tornado on the Fujita scale. While the first tornado was inflicting damage, a second tornado touched down near the Texas State Cemetery and tore across the Travis Heights community and St. Edwards University. Its most destructive impacts occurred at the Woodward Manufacturing Company's automobile plant at Penn Field. It then curved west towards Manchaca and Oak Hill, leveling homes and uprooting numerous trees before dissipating. The second tornado was the more destructive of the two and killed at least 12 people, including six at a single home in Oak Hill. It was estimated to have been an F4 tornado on the Fujita scale. In aggregate, the two tornadoes injured 50–60 people and inflicted at least $300,000 in damage, with some estimates placing the damage toll above $700,000.