04/01/2026
Where were you? Did you live in the area when this happened?
Mother Nature’s Artwork: Twenty-six years ago In 2000, when an F3 tornado took a direct hit across downtown Fort Worth it left a notable footprint of it’s track. At the big intersection of six points, where Camp Bowie Blvd., University Dr., Bailey Ave. and West 7th St. merge, a large billboard was twisted and mangled by the force of the tornado. The billboard attached to these massive steel girders is long forgotten but the girders remain to tell the story of what happened March 28, 2000.
The incredible strength of this tornado twisted and bent the girders as if Mother Nature was sculpting artwork to share for generations to come. The Cultural District has since been completely revitalized, and these beams are now part of a plaza.
The sculpture sits directly in front of a post office which displays a mural of a thunderstorm crossing the Texas prairie. The famous text on the mural reads “…Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”. The mural’s background image was taken by the then Official Photographer of the State of Texas, Wyman Meinzer.
How many times have you stopped at this intersection and contemplated the strength of the tornado that passed through in 2000 leaving these twisted steel girders behind? Or did you even know what they were?
