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A tornado touched down near Jarrell, Texas, on the afternoon of April 12, the National Weather Service NWS said.This footage, filmed by Twitter user @Williermo77, shows a funnel cloud looming over ...
Suspected tornadoes were spotted and caught on videos in Texas as storms battered parts of the South Saturday. A tornado is believed to have killed at least one person and left four people injured ...
On May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused catastrophic damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. The tornado killed 27 residents of the town, mainly in a single subdivision, and inflicted approximately $40 million (1997 USD) in damages in its 13-minute, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) track.
Two possible tornadoes spotted near Florence and Jarrell in Williamson County. No injuries reported.
Nevertheless, the El Reno tornado is one of the two strongest tornadoes ever recorded in terms of maximum wind speeds, the other being the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado which doppler radar measured 321 miles per hour (517 km/h) mph. The 1997 Jarrell tornado was another example of a multiple-vortex tornado. The infamous “Dead Man Walking ...
The final, unambiguous apparition of the Jarrell tornado began within the Williamson County line 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Jarrell as a narrow and rope-shaped funnel swathed in large amounts of dust when it touched down at 3:40 p.m. [47] [14]: 6 Like the two F3 tornadoes earlier in the day, it developed along the gust front produced by its ...
Drone video shows significant damage to buildings in Porter Heights. According to the NWS storm report, the East Montgomery Fire Department was also hit by the twister.
The 1997 tornado season was largely defined by two tornado events. The first was a major outbreak on March 1 that resulted in 27 fatalities, 25 of which were in Arkansas. The second was a brutal, slow-moving F5 twister that struck the small town of Jarrell, Texas on May 27 killing 27 people and leaving behind some of the most extreme tornado damage ever se