Lubbock tornado on anniversary of Waco twister

The first reported sighting of the May 11, 1970 tornado came from an off-duty policeman, who spotted a funnel cloud at 8:10 pm three miles east of the Lubbock city limits. What the cop actually saw turned out to be the baby brother of the main or primary tornado that would wreak such havoc on the West Texas community of 140,000 – the biggest town between Fort Worth and El Paso at that time. The…