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The tornado killed 11 people in total, 7 of which occurred when the tornado struck a highway. The tornado caused $27,000,000 (1979 USD) in damages, and injured 67 people. [ 65 ] Multiple other brief F0 and F1 tornadoes were reported in Wichita and Runnels counties.
Violent, long-tracked tornado killed 59 people in Texas and Arkansas. (34 significant, 1 violent, 17 killer) 1922 Austin twin tornadoes: May 4, 1922: Texas: 2: 13 fatalities, 50 injuries (Deadliest tornadoes in Austin history) (1 violent, 2 killer) April 1923 tornado outbreak sequence: April 4, 1923: High Plains – 14 fatalities, 68 injuries ...
10. The Jarrell Tornado, May 27, 1997. This is the last known confirmed F5 tornado in Texas. Twenty-seven people died and 12 people were injured in the storm along with hundreds of cattle.
The tornado was the fourth-deadliest of the 1990s in the United States, only being surpassed by the 1990 Plainfield tornado that killed 29, the 1998 Birmingham tornado that killed 32, and the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado that killed 36. It was the only F5 tornado of 1997, and the next F5-rated tornado would occur on April 8 of the ...
Seven people were killed. It was the deadliest tornado in Texas since Dec. 26, 2015, when 10 people died after an EF4 twister hit the Garland and Rowlett area in east Dallas County.
However, over the past 74 years, only 44 tornadoes have claimed 72 lives Here is a of the top six deadliest tornadoes in West Texas: May 11, 1970 — an F5 tornado in Lubbock County claimed 26 ...
List of tornadoes in the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence; Tornado outbreak of November 22–24, 2004; Tornado outbreak of March 28–31, 2007; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 20–27, 2007; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 4–6, 2007; Tornado outbreak of May 1–3, 2008; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 22–27, 2008
The twister killed three people and injured more than a hundred, according to news reports. Similarly to the Matador tornado, NWS did issue lesser notices leading up to the eventual tornado warning.