page_title: Climate of Dallas
section_title: Tornadoes
hierarchical_section_title: Climate of Dallas / Volatile weather / Tornadoes
context_page_description: Dallas is located in North Texas, built along the Trinity River. It has a humid subtropical climate that is characteristic of the Southern Plains of the United States. Dallas experiences mild winters and hot summers.
context_section_description: Since Dallas lies at the lower end of the "Tornado Alley", tornadoes have on occasion been a threat to the city. Most tornadoes hit the city during the months of April and May. Dallas was hit by a powerful tornado on 2 April 1957. The tornado would have likely been an F3. On March 28, 2000, the “Fort Worth Tornado” impacted Dallas's neighbor Fort Worth's downtown, and a tornado in Arlington, Texas also occurred that day damaging some homes. Four people died in Fort Worth as a result of the tornado. That day was the Metroplex's most damaging tornado outbreak since the 1957 event. Another widespread tornado outbreak struck the area in the Dallas tornado outbreak of April 3, 2012, slightly damaging Rangers Ballpark in Arlington and damaging some planes and grounding the others at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field, heavily damaging an elementary school, and destroying semis in a facility. On December 26, 2015, a rare winter tornado outbreak led to spawning several tornadoes, including an EF-4 tornado near the city of Garland and Rowlett that caused 10 deaths. On October 21, 2019, during the tornado outbreak of October 20–22, 2019, 10 tornadoes touched down in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, including an EF-3 tornado that devastated areas from North Dallas to Richardson.
caption: A multiple-vortex tornado outside of Dallas, Texas on April 2, 1957.
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