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Record twister strikes Goliad
A boiling black cloud rolled into Goliad on May 18, 1902 rattling windows with earsplitting thunderclaps and pelting the historic town with huge hailstones. But the worst was yet to come from the killer storm.
Asked to list the deadliest tornadoes in Texas history, many might name the terrible twister that hit Waco in 1953 or maybe the Wichita Falls and Saragosa calamities of 1979 and 1987. Hardly anyone, however, would mention the tornado that caught Goliad napping on a sleepy Sunday afternoon 1...