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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.
An F3 tornado killed 20 people in and near Commerce, Mississippi, most of them at a plantation school, and destroyed 45 homes. An F2 tornado destroyed another school between Lewisberg and Olive Branch, Mississippi, killing 3 others. A survey team declared that these events were not tornadoes, despite the fact that the funnels were sighted and ...
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.
The 2013 Granbury tornado was a violent and destructive EF4 tornado that struck Granbury, Texas in the evening hours of May 15, 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It killed 6 people, making it the deadliest tornado of the Tornado outbreak of May 15–17, 2013 , and was one of the worst tornadoes to ever hit the region.
A “Particularly Dangerous Situation” tornado watch with wind gusts up to 80 mph was issued by the National Weather Service, affecting nearly 2.4 million people from eastern Texas to Louisiana ...
A 48-year-old woman was killed in Texas' Brazoria County, near the state's Gulf Coast, according to the local sheriff's office. Four people also received non-critical injuries.
In the Americas, there are 15 tornadoes on record that caused at least 100 fatalities, the most recent being the Joplin F5 tornado which killed 158 people in May 2011. There are at least 450 tornadoes on record that caused greater than ten fatalities; the most recent of these was the Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF4 tornado which killed 17 people ...
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.