On the morning of May 11, 1970, skies darkened over Lubbock and winds began to rise, setting the stage for the kind of storm many in Tornado Alley pray never comes their way. By late that Monday ...

Lubbock remembers. Lubbock remembers the night a deadly F5 tornado tore through the community. Lubbock remembers the hurts and the loss of 26 men, women and children. But Lubbock remembers the aid it ...

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles are edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, TTU Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article is by Juan H. Molina, a graduate student at ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - All these years later, we continue to hear new perspectives on the 1970 Lubbock tornado. Larry Aguallo was a junior at Lubbock High. He remembers that May 11 night like it was ...

We've discussed May's deserved reputation for both violent tornadoes and large outbreaks. In Texas, two of its worst tornadoes of all time happened in the middle of May, each in one of the state's ...