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Lubbock Tornado

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Lubbock Tornado
LOCATION:
Great Plains Insurance Building, Lubbock, Texas
EVENT:
Lubbock Tornado
YEAR:
1970
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Leighton Cochran

Probably the first tall building to be hit by a tornado resulted in the development of a very successful wind-engineer program at Texas Tech University. This photograph was taken in 2001 and the twist in the structure caused by the tornado thirty years ago is readily apparent.