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<blockquote data-quote="geezer77" data-source="post: 4256013" data-attributes="member: 49872"><p>Only have "I was there" personal memories of these two:</p><p></p><p>April 2, 1956 - 9:30 PM. Drumright. I was just finishing my freshman year at DHS. We lived on the west edge of town, heard the approaching roar, and ran for the cellar. It was pitch dark outside, we never actually saw the thing, just heard the famous freight train sound and felt the ground shake. Funnel missed us by two blocks, went diagonally through Drumright SW to NE. Likely an F4 in today's ratings. Killed 5, four from the Bevel family in the NW part of town including their two high school age daughters. Awful.</p><p></p><p>June 8, 1974, another F4 tornado hit Drumright about 4 PM. We had all been following the storm on the radio since it went through Tinker AFB an hour or more before, so we had plenty of warning this time. Standing outside the cellar door, I watched this one approaching about a mile to the the SW before diving into the cellar. It passed 1/4 mile west of my mother's home and destroyed a nursing home and many other houses and businesses, left 12 dead, many injured.</p><p></p><p>Unless you actually hear an F4 or F5 up close and feel the ground seem to literally tremble, you cannot possibly appreciate how scary they can be. The power and sound of a 200-300+ mph wind concentrated into a small area is simply beyond our brain's ability to imagine. Wind speed during the the all-time record May 3 1999 F5+ that hit Bridge Creek/Moore was not even measurable because it completely maxed out the highest possible reading on instruments available at the time. All we know is it exceeded 312 MPH, which was the highest speed the the instrument could measure. Winds from this storm exceed that, but no one knows by how much. The storm literally peeled asphalt off stretches of the paved county roads near Amber and Bridge Creek, and left nothing but bare concrete slabs where houses used to be in entire neighborhoods in Moore and south OKC. It missed our home SE of Mustang by more than 6 miles, and even then the roar was pretty loud as we stood outside and listened as it went by. Terrifying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="geezer77, post: 4256013, member: 49872"] Only have "I was there" personal memories of these two: April 2, 1956 - 9:30 PM. Drumright. I was just finishing my freshman year at DHS. We lived on the west edge of town, heard the approaching roar, and ran for the cellar. It was pitch dark outside, we never actually saw the thing, just heard the famous freight train sound and felt the ground shake. Funnel missed us by two blocks, went diagonally through Drumright SW to NE. Likely an F4 in today's ratings. Killed 5, four from the Bevel family in the NW part of town including their two high school age daughters. Awful. June 8, 1974, another F4 tornado hit Drumright about 4 PM. We had all been following the storm on the radio since it went through Tinker AFB an hour or more before, so we had plenty of warning this time. Standing outside the cellar door, I watched this one approaching about a mile to the the SW before diving into the cellar. It passed 1/4 mile west of my mother's home and destroyed a nursing home and many other houses and businesses, left 12 dead, many injured. Unless you actually hear an F4 or F5 up close and feel the ground seem to literally tremble, you cannot possibly appreciate how scary they can be. The power and sound of a 200-300+ mph wind concentrated into a small area is simply beyond our brain's ability to imagine. Wind speed during the the all-time record May 3 1999 F5+ that hit Bridge Creek/Moore was not even measurable because it completely maxed out the highest possible reading on instruments available at the time. All we know is it exceeded 312 MPH, which was the highest speed the the instrument could measure. Winds from this storm exceed that, but no one knows by how much. The storm literally peeled asphalt off stretches of the paved county roads near Amber and Bridge Creek, and left nothing but bare concrete slabs where houses used to be in entire neighborhoods in Moore and south OKC. It missed our home SE of Mustang by more than 6 miles, and even then the roar was pretty loud as we stood outside and listened as it went by. Terrifying. [/QUOTE]
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