04/23/2026
đ The Night Satan Came to Texas. In June 1960, the tiny town of Kopperl, Texas was asleep when the air turned to fire. As a dying thunderstorm collapsed overhead, there was no rain left to cool the superheated air plummeting toward Earth. The townâs 225 residents woke up to hurricane-force winds with 75 mph gusts. The heat was so violent it reportedly hit 140°F. Thatâs 20 degrees hotter than Texasâs all-time record and higher than any officially recorded temp on Earth. Across the community crops were scorched, livestock were panicked, and locals were left gasping. Meteorologists called it a âheat burstâ for the record books. In Kopperl they just called it Satanâs Storm.
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