"Texas Tornado" is the title of a song written by Bobby Braddock

Bobby Braddock

Robert Valentine Braddock is an American country music songwriter and record producer. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Braddock has contributed numerous hit songs during more than 40 years in the industry, including 13 number-one hit...

 and recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence is an American country music artist. He started at a country music restaurant called "Live At Libby's" where owner Libby Knight would help local talent find their way into country music...

. It was released in April 1995 as the third single from Lawrence's 1994 album I See It Now

I See It Now

I See It Now is the third studio album by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. Released in 1994 on Atlantic Records, the album produced four singles: the title track, "If The World Had a Front Porch", "Texas Tornado" and "As Any Fool Can See". Of these, "Texas Tornado" was a Number One on...

. It became his sixth Number One hit on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

country singles charts and also reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Content

The song is a mid-tempo country ballad in which the narrator recalls a lover, whom he describes as a "Texas tornado, blowing [him] away again". It was also the only track on I See It Now that Lawrence produced himself.

Music video

The music video was directed by Marc Ball and premiered in April 1995. The video pictures Lawrence as a ranch hand who is smitten with a "Texas tornado" of a woman. As each clip in the series unfolds, Lawrence appears dressed in the garb from the previous video, as he makes a "quantum leap" into a new time zone and tune. The sequence includes such clips as "Renegades, Rebels, and Rogues", "If the Good Die Young

If the Good Die Young

"If the Good Die Young" is the title of a song, written by Craig Wiseman and Paul Nelson, and recorded by Tracy Lawrence for his 1993 album Alibis. The song was released in January 1994 as that album's fourth and final single, and in April of that year, it became that album's fourth consecutive...

", and "As Any Fool Can See

As Any Fool Can See

"As Any Fool Can See" is the title of a song written by Paul Nelson and Kenny Beard, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was released in December 1994 as the second single from his album, I See It Now. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S...

". "The idea of tying all the videos together seemed logical, and once we hit on the concept of time travel, it just seemed natural," says Ball of the serial format. "We figured maybe the fans would grow to love it, even though the songs are vastly different from one another."

Chart positions

"Texas Tornado" debuted at number 64 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 15, 1995.

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1