Jarrell tornado

The Jarrell tornado was the F5 - Tornado , which the city Jarrell in the state of Texas had visited on 27 May 1997th It killed 27 people, making it the second most dangerous tornado of the 1990s. The trunk was a full 1.2 km wide. The length of the track with ground contact of the trunk was 12.2 km.

A total of five more tornadoes formed in the Texas area that afternoon. However, this one was the most remarkable of all. Double Creek Estates, a suburb of Jarrell, has literally been wiped off the map. 20 houses were destroyed.

Train

The tornado first hit the ground at Bell County, over a mile west of Interstate 35. It next moved south-southwest to Williamson County , Texas, where it hit northwestern Jarrell, with a direct train to the suburb of Double Creek Estates. A later analysis of the damage revealed that it was definitely an F5 tornado. It was found that in a field where the tornado had developed, corn plants were torn from the ground and cows were thrown through the air at other fields. Grass and earth piled up to a height of 50 cm. In total, over 150 m of roads outside Jarrell were destroyed. After traveling through Double Creek Estates, his train track went through a heavily forested area where the destruction abruptly stopped.

Web links

• The Jarrel tornado at spc.noaa.gov ; Viewed June 9, 2011