Re: TB: Titan's Glory
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- Subject: Re: TB: Titan's Glory
- From: "* L* R* <p*@centex.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 21:08:27 -0600 (MDT)
Rusty,
Been in Texas all my life (started in 1946) -- don't think the 140 degrees
will fly!!!
Patricia Roberson, in Goldthwaite, Texas, where it's in the 70's and NOT
RAINING for the moment.
At 07:01 PM 5/31/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Walter A. Moores wrote:
>>
>> > due to the second screwiest Texas weather in recorded history!)
>> >
>> > Rusty
>> >
>> Rusty, I lived in Texas for 48 years and am curious about the
>> 'first screwiest Texas weather,' since 1997 was the 'second.'
>>
>> Walter Moores
>> Enid Lake, MS 7/8
>
>
>It occured in a small town; Lake Whitney. It is documented in the
>book, TEXAS WEATHER by Dub Bolus. WHat happened was, storms had been
>building up around FW, where I live, then at about 10pm,
>disappeared. (I am NOT making this up!) Then, "Shortly after
>midnight, June 15, 1960," HOT winds with speeds of 100 mph hit the
>town, and the temp rose from 70 to 140! All the farmers' crops withered
>instantly, and homes were damaged. People there thought the world was
>coming to an end, and began panicking. No one knows for sure what the
>temp was, but a thermometer, (this is where it gets a little vague...)
>jumped from 70 to 100 in minutes, the highest being 140, and the next
>day was reading low. If it really did get that hot, then the highest
>temp ever on earth was here in TEXAS! The book makes an attempt to
>explain it. It also says that the ONLY RECORD of this storm is file
>footage at a Fort Worth TV station. (it doesn't say which one.)
>
>More than you wanted to know?
>
>Rusty
>
>
