April 2, 1957 - Greg GuitarBuster

At around 4:30 PM CST (some sources say 4:15 PM),[5] a tornado touched down in southern Dallas County (south of modern-day Interstate 20) and traveled northward for about 45 minutes through the Dallas neighborhoods of Oak Cliff, Kessler Park, West Dallas (only 2.5 mi (4.0 km) west of Downtown Dallas)[5] and Love Field before lifting over Bachman Lake (west of Dallas Love Field Airport) just after 5:00 PM CST.[5] As it first touched down, the tornado was barely visible, with only a debris cloud showing at the base of the thin funnel cloud.[3] 13 minutes later, the tornado funnel became more visible and was seen clearly to touch the ground - Greg GuitarBuster

I was six, staying at a daycare/kindergarten in Oak Cliff. The tornado was VERY close. - Greg GuitarBuster

The 1957 Dallas Tornado might easily be dismissed as just one out of scores of common Texas twisters, each in its time having done some damage and, perhaps, killed a few unfortunate people. The Dallas tornado was no monster to rival, for instance, the F4 that ravaged Wichita Falls in 1979. Retrospectively it has been determined to have been a category F3 (the original Fujita-Pearson scale was not developed until 1971). As it carved a sixteen mile path through Oak Cliff and West Dallas over a time span of about forty minutes, it took the lives of ten people, including three children from a single family (the highest death toll from a tornado to date in the DFW area), injured approximately 200 and left 500 homeless. Five-hundred seventy-four structures were damaged, including between 131 and 154 homes and between 9 and 28 apartment buildings that were completely destroyed. Property losses totaled $4 million (in 1957 dollars). It was one of about twenty-five tornadoes spotted around north central Texas and southern Oklahoma that day. - Greg GuitarBuster

Wow Greg you have lived a life - Steve C, Team Marina