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This was the first tornado warning of the day issued for the office's warning area and warned that "the city of Jarrell is in the path of this storm." [71] Local warning sirens went off about 10–12 minutes before the tornado struck. [72] The precise start of the Jarrell tornado was difficult to pinpoint. [28]
During the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. Known most frequently as the Jarrell tornado, it 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.
A tornado crosses a field in Katy, Texas, on Dec. 28, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.
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
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 ...
Not far away, on Chuli Nene, Morgan Brackin was awakened by tornado warnings going off on her cellphone. She and her husband, Cameron, and their son Eli, who’s 10 ½, were standing near the ...
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 ...
A large tornado outbreak struck the Southern region of the United States on March 21–22, 2022, before transitioning to the Eastern United States on March 23. The outbreak started with numerous supercell thunderstorms and severe squall lines developing in central Texas and southern Oklahoma, prompting the issuance of numerous tornado warnings, including multiple PDS tornado warnings. [4]