Fort Worth Tornado

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The Fort Worth Tornado is a catagory F3 tornado that occurred on March 28, 2000 moving across the downtown area of Fort Worth, Texas (USA).

The tornado passed through the west side of Fort Worth at around 6:00 p.m. It tore a 3 mile (5 km) path through the city blowing out windows in many of the highrises downtown, and destroyed one office building and a church. The tornado was approximately one-quarter of a mile (0.4 km) wide and F3 on the Fujita scale. Five people were killed by the tornado (two by falling debris, one struck by a hailstone and two by drowning in flash floods) and over 100 were injured.

The heavy rain and/hail that followed the tornado damaged many interior areas that actually survived the F3 winds. The storm moved onto the southern Arlington and Grand Prairie area, where another tornado was spawned. This second tornado did damage along a mile wide residential area leaving over 80 people homeless. This overall caused the county over half a billion dollars in damage.

The Fort Worth Tornado lasted from 6:18-6:28 pm.

A KXAS camera in downtown Fort Worth was broadcasting during the 6 p.m. weather segment and may have broadcast parts of the tornado.

This is not the first time the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex has been hit by a tornado. Another notable tornado hit Dallas on April 2, 1957. That tornado was among the most photographed tornadoes of the 20th century. It killed 10 people.