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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. 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.
As storms swirl across the South, more than 200,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi were without power Wednesday morning, according to poweroutage.us, and more could soon ...
Soon after the railroad was completed, a saloon, two stores, a post office, and a bank were built. Because of the proximity of Jarrell to the railroad, Jarrell received all of the people and most of the buildings of nearby Corn Hill, Texas, thus killing that town. [4] [5] The city reached a population peak of 500 residents in 1914.
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 ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Texas recently arrested an illegal migrant they accuse of breaking into the country a half dozen times. Jorge Carvajal Castrejon, 36, was ...
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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]
A gunman killed eight people and wounded seven others – three critically – in a shooting at a Dallas-area mall before being fatally shot by a police officer who happened to be nearby ...