On the morning of May 11, 1970, skies darkened over Lubbock and winds began to rise, setting the stage for the kind of storm many in Tornado Alley pray never comes their way. By late that Monday ...

Lubbock remembers. Lubbock remembers the night a deadly F5 tornado tore through the community. Lubbock remembers the hurts and the loss of 26 men, women and children. But Lubbock remembers the aid it ...

Lubbock Fire Rescue and public works crews are continuing work this week to extinguish smoldering debris left over from a fire last week in east Lubbock. Crews are planning a controlled burn Tuesday ...

Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about the Great Plains ...

Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about the Great Plains ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - All these years later, we continue to hear new perspectives on the 1970 Lubbock tornado. Larry Aguallo was a junior at Lubbock High. He remembers that May 11 night like it was ...

We've discussed May's deserved reputation for both violent tornadoes and large outbreaks. In Texas, two of its worst tornadoes of all time happened in the middle of May, each in one of the state's ...