2020 Waco/Grandview Wedge

The 2020 Waco/Grandview wedge tornado was a very catastrophic, deadly, and a very large intense twister that Impacted the cities of McGregor, Texas - Waco, Texas - Albott, Texas - Itasca, Texas and most of Grandview, Texas - Along with the more southern-lower outskirts of Dallas/Fort Worth such as Alvarado, Texas - and Briaroaks, Texas; on May 18th, 2020. The Tornado was over 2.5 miles wide in Width and set a record overtaking the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado in 2013 for being the largest tornado ever recorded in human history.

Conditions Leading
On May 11th, 2020 - the SPC (Storm Prediction Center) - made a map predicting future risks of severe to widespread storms in the Texas Heartland and most of the Mid-Midwest to the West-Southeastern United States. Most of the central heartland of Texas was in a Moderate to High risk (pink) of strong to possibly long-tracked Tornadoes and damaging storms. Most of the storms we're off tracking to the West of Texas and was extending on a broad and wide line of Storms - with a Supercell emerging from the outskirts of it - the line extending from Naperville, Illinois to El Paso, Texas.

On the day the Tornado struck - May 18th, 2020 - at 6:30 AM CDT in Waco, a Tornado Watch was issued until further notice. Although citizens knew extremely bad weather was coming - some rain was moving into the area as early as 11:00 PM May 17th - the previous day, which many thought was a prohibition of things to come. (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)