Jarrell Tornado | The Path of Destruction 25 Years Later
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2022
- On May 27, 1997 the small Texas town of Jarrell was torn apart by an F5 tornado that would prove to be the largest in Texas history. 27 people died, countless others were injured. Homes were destroyed. Even the pavement was torn off the streets. This special tells the story of that awful day from the perspective of the meteorologists who forecasted it, the reporters who covered it, the first responders who did so much to help those in need and the victims who were scarred for life.
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The scary thing was that everyone did what they were supposed to do and they still died.
I couldn't imagine what these poor innocent people had to watch and go through!! Just Devastating.....
My dad was a cop in Lacy Lakeview at the time and worked rescue relief for this tornado. He said what made this even worse was some kids had no way to escape as their parents worked out of town. He said it was one of the most eye opening experiences he's ever had in his life, searching for the deceased. The fact that it slowed down so much right over Jarrell is just sinister. I think about this town quite often and cannot imagine the fear going through the residents trying to find a place to hide knowing that this monster was coming at them.
You know this whole storm cell started right there in Waco right? I was at work when it happened.
My father still talks about fishing out at Morgans Point when the twister hit. He left his gear and beer, and sent a little 95 jeep wrangler as hard as it would go to get away from it. Still drives that jeep today in 2024
Oh wow! I lived in Bruceville-Eddy at the time.
Florida had its 25 yr anniversary for the Kissimmee tornado outbreak not long ago. I was 9 living in sanford behind the aiport where the tornados hit. My dad helped clean up after. Seeing part of my street demolished was so devasting. I think it was the deadliest fl has seen til this day.
If you're from Florida, talk about hurricanes, not tornados
@commiehunter733 that's a ridiculously stupid comment.
@commiehunter733 if you were gonna insist on commenting, you couldn't think of anything better to say? Florida gets tornados more than they do hurricanes.. you must not be from around here lol.
@@commiehunter733Are you aware, hurricanes can cause tornadoes?
This kind of stuff has been happening for how many decades? And storm shelters are still not standard in all new construction down there?
That's because Texas has bedrock underneath the soil. You can only dig maybe 6 feet deep. Then you have to drill, jackhammer, or blast the stone to get a shelter built. Or get above ground shelters.
But that's why there are no basements there.
While I completely agree w/ you, storm shelters are expensive, and prices for these life-savers are only increasing. Another option is neighborhood shelters. Lastly, our government wastes money on illegals, student-loan forgiveness, etc., yet couldn’t care less about American citizen’s safety. Very sobering fact.
@@denisek292 Part of the problem is that in Texas, almost all homes are built on a slab foundation, which is almost unheard of hee in Missouri. I have a short wall foundation, so I have a crawlspace, but many home here are made with basements. 100 years ago, almost all rural homes were built with a cellar. That is best, actually.
It was so humid that day but since I work inside I didn’t notice until I went to get lunch and came out and I should have known it was tornado weather but I paid no attention to it because I was just worried about getting back to work and I didn’t want to get soaked. After I ate my lunch at work all hell was breaking through around where my home and my family was. They were safe but only by the grace of God.
Bruce Thomas was on air over 24 hours that day. He saved many lives including my husband and daughter. Thank you Bruce so much for all the work you did not just that day but every single day you were on air. Your voice gave out but you didn’t.
RIP 27 victims of Jarrell. God bless their community keep them safe from future threats
The aftermath looked as though a massive street broom just swept everything away, it was unearthly looking.
I've watched hundreds of these tornado aftermath vids. This is still the ONLY one I have ever seen that show nothing on the ground as destruction. There is nothing there. No pieces of stuff. No debris. No anything. You look at Joplin, horrific stuff. You look at Jerrell, there is nothing there. It's like some crew cleaned everything, swept it, vacuumed it, there is NOTHING LEFT.
Dig a dhelter. Doesn`t have to be fancy you aren`t gonna live in there but it`ll keep you alive.
Pretty sure this one tore the top of of some shelters
@@crazycars81No, those in storm shelters survived. The original aftermath is on RUclips.
@@Alejandro8Marioactually you're both correct. Right before it the Double Creek subdivision it ripped the top off a storm shelter. And as it hit Double Creek there was one family who had a storm shelter under their home. A Hispanic family named the Hernandez. And yes, both incidents can be found on RUclips.
I lived near here when this happened...that tornado took brick and mortar, cement homes clean off the foundation...took asphalt of the roads, sucked up storm shelters.
@@MrsToooSweet292It never sucked a storm shelter out of the ground. No idea where you got that from.
I remember that day. I worked up by the aboretum in north austin and i remember when we walked outside for lunch it was suffocating, so hot so incredibly humid and the sky was green. I remember stopping on the sidewalk looking up and commenting to my co worker and Thats why in the movie Twister when he says its going green, it twists my stomach, cuz i know it to be so true. Just down the road from my office there were tornados in cedar park and several reports of people on mopac reporting seeing ropes. It was a wild day and so somber when we saw the devastation in jarrell. I remember them saying it pulled up the concrete slabs and there was no debris, houses and cars were just gone. But this is the first time ive heard of hides being ripped off of cows. Wow. And so many lives lost that day was so tragic . Im glad to see these survivor stories! 12:48
Why do people keep rebuilding in the same dangerous places? People don’t learn lol
Be quiet ignoramus
we need the means to interrupt a vortex as it occurs. The science and energy could be developed to make a tornado breaker
Those cows were scared to life yes we eat them everyday but we make sure they don't feel pian
I was in that Jerrell, Texas tornado in 1997 when that tornado hit we were in school but the thing that got me is that when this news reporter said that this was the last at five tornado in Texas well I beg to differ the last tornado that we had in Texas that was an F5 and went through Rowlett Texas and Garland Texas and that was on December 25, 2015. Am I correct give me a thumbs up.
Jarrel was the last ef/f5, the last ef5 was in moore Oklahoma in 2013
I lived there sad day for jerrell
You couldn't hardly breathe that day very hot and humid i lived in jerrell and was working in sun city Georgetown that day
@@charlesgreen9468 I saw your comment we were actually we’re on I 35 just south of Jarrell heading north took shelter underneath an overpass that was the worst thing to do during an F5 tornado underneath an overpass. It is a wind tunnel.
@@anthonyanthonymorones4226 I was at the RV Park on interstate can't remember the name of it my girlfriend was there they put everyone in a building out by the interstate that wasn't safe either the hail busted out nearly every window out in the back of many RV'S there
It's like a bom went off
Offering a futuristic assist back in time to you with the letter B (lower case, of course).
Move to a safer place. Why stay there?
What safer place?
I guarantee you, wherever you live, you have potential for disasters that are indigenous to your area.
you sound slow💀
Because.... people don't want to move all the time
por amor a Dios espero que la gente ahora, antes de levantar una casa , consteuyan un refugio, es horrible ver niños y familias enteras muertas por el tornado..