Brit Reacts To THE JARRELL TEXAS EF5 TORNADO - MOST DEVASTATING EVER
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To THE JARRELL TEXAS EF5 TORNADO - MOST DEVASTATING EVER
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I was a police officer in a town 35 miles from Jarrell when this tornado happened. Myself and three other officers responded to assist with search and rescue. We were in the ground in Jarrell 90 minutes after the event. I won’t go into details on what we saw that day but when we got there it was immediately apparent that we were going to be doing body recovery, not search and rescue. There’s images in my head that I will carry to my grave.
With tornadoes, you don't have a lot of time to prepare. They move fast. Also, if you put the animals in the barn and the tornado hits the barn, they're dead anyway. At least in the fields, animals have the opportunity to run out of the path of the tornado.
I think what's being hoped for in such a situation is that the animals will scatter thereby having at least some of them survive. If you put them all inside an enclosure and that enclosure gets wrecked, then you've just increased the likelihood that all your animals will be killed.
Just to touch on the cattle question, many of these farms are hundreds of acres and cattle are often split into various fields and rotated. When you get a tornado warning you don't have much time, and unfortunately it's not feasible to go round up the cattle. Generally you worry about getting you and your family into a safe place until it's over. Even when the meteorologist has you under a Tornado watch, you wouldn't have time. I live on a Horse Ranch and we tend to keep the horses closer to home if the weather is iffy, but sometimes it's good to just let them run, we have 500 acres and they can often be safer out in a pasture than all stalled in a barn.
Not to mention, no barn would have survived that, either. Horrific to imagine.
Kabir, my man, when a tornado warning goes out, its not like a hurricane that moves real slowly. A tornado Siren goes off and you have maybe 10 minutes or less to react and get to shelter before your life is threatened severely. also. the F/EF scale is the Fujita Scale/ Enhanced Fujita scale named for Ted Fujita who developed the scale in 1971.
“Fujitsu scale” 😂😂
@@MrYabber lol. i completely forgot to add my thought about Fujitsu is a camera company among other things, Fujita was a guy who made a scale.
When an area of my town got hit, they had about 3 minutes to get to shelter before the tornado touched down.
A lot of people were in their beds and got killed because they never woke up due to no sirens and not hearing the warning go out.
everybody gangsta until the tornado grows legs
If you have a hundred head of cattle, they very seldom all graze together. That makes it impossible to round up herd, over a 100 acre's of pasture. A tornado warning, means it tail grabbing your ass right now.
You see that car and house? Do you think a barn would protect livestock?
Tornados are random, so you can't do anything, but stay alert to warnings and watch the sky. It is all last minute to last second decisions, which is why it's a good idea to have a plan that is well know for all your family members. I grew up in in tornado alley, and there's a lot of farms with animals, that you also have to have plans for. People nowadays seem to do nothing prior, and just wait until it's upon them to act. This gets them killed.
My dad saw this tornado from his car when driving back from a business trip. He called my mom from a pay phone in a panic. Even though it was nowhere near our house in Austin, I remember her dragging us kids into the bathtub and hunkering down until he got home. I was only 4 but remember it distinctly!
as for farmers not getting their cattle into a shelter, it's cattle. and a barn is not going to save you from a tornado. firstly, they're panicking animals that each weigh upwards of a ton. herding takes a lot of time and pastures are huge. tornadoes move fairly quickly, usually drifting along at speeds of like 20 mph but can be upwards of 60 mph. the tornado of jarrell stalled over the town, which is why so much was destroyed. but coming into town it was relatively fast. you only have minutes and at that rate with how little time you have when the sirens go off, it's better to just save yourself than try to herd a ton of cows. even at a slow speed of 10 mph, if sirens were blaring for 10 minutes, the tornado has already travelled a rough distance of 1.7 miles. even worse when you consider the size of the tornado as a mile in and of itself. so essentially within 10 minutes, the tornado has travelled its own width.
There is a reason why homes in tornado country have underground storm shelters. Because everything above ground will be destroyed if it's in the path of the tornado. Putting the cows in a barn will do no good, plus he would be wasting time that could best be used getting his family to safety.
A few days late with my comment, but I agree with what you said regarding cattle. However, I live about 30 miles from Jarrell, and there is no way to have an underground shelter here without jackhammering feet of limestone, and paying tens of thousands for it. We also don't have basements. The best we can do is an interior room with no windows (usually a bathroom or closet). Granted, all of Texas is very diverse as far as soil depth goes, but near me in Central Texas, I'm hitting bedrock within a foot or 2 of digging.
@@wax_idiotic Also a lot of folks have high water tables so digging will just make them a big pool of water - we all know that 99% of the time getting to a small center room will save you but once in awhile a beast comes along from which there is little time or space to hide. I was a kid when an F5 hit Lubbock. It was awful.
@@StarBitt97 I’m sorry you went through that, that must’ve been awful. I think a lot of people don’t realize it’s not so simple to build a shelter, because of the geological makeup of our state. We would if we could, but so many of us have no choice. And even if there were community shelters, there just isn’t enough time to get to them.
@@wax_idiotic Same with Oklahoma. I know above-ground storm shelters are a bit more common in the Central OK (i.e. Moore) area but in Eastern OK (i.e. Tulsa) it's just finding the best room in your house.
I live in Florida and my town regularly gets hurricanes. Earlier this year we had 3 “weak” tornados in one night (EF1 and EF0). It was shocking how much damage they caused - worse than many hurricanes. I will take hurricanes any day over even weak tornados, at least hurricanes give you time to prepare.
If it can mangle a car and destroy a home what makes you think a barn (usually made of wood) would protect the animals?
There is absolutely no way I would live in tornado alley without having guaranteed access to an underground shelter.
Lot of those people dont have a choice. Cant afford to move somewhere else or a place with a basement. There should be mandatory public tornado shelters in all areas where there are mobile homes or places with no basement. Its ridiculous they keep making houses with no basement in tornado prone areas and DONT give them a storm shelter.
Many tornadoes have only 10-15 minutes of warning. And sometimes even less.
Additionally the ground in Jarrell was difficult for creating an underground storm shelter.
Yeah, they mentioned that there was bedrock just beneath something - was it the asphalt?
@@cindymatthewsarrowdalearts6449I think was in a plowed field. The tornado removed 18 inches of soil to reveal the bedrock.
@@jefferyshute6641 Yep, I remember now you say it. :)
Jarrell, TX was one of the first twisters to have the dead man walking legend shown on camera and honestly it really chills your bones on seeing it.
Also there's stories that limbs from the victims were laying on the ground after the twister pasted through.
Those stories are wrong. They vastly overestimate the size of the individual pieces of remains that were found. IIRC, one report said that the largest bits of human remains that were found was the size of the last joint of a thumb. Others stated that there was a great deal of difficulty differentiating between human remains and animal/livestock remains due to how thoroughly the tornado "granulated" all debris found in it.
@@rdfox76 well that's what I've heard in my life and fireman or rescue squad member that was interviewed about that day and he said that he doesn't want to talk about it because it was traumatizing for him.
@@siltstridersftwyou are correct. I live 20 miles from Jarrel and none of the 1st responders want to discuss it….the fact that the foundations were all that was left should tell you what the bodies of the 27 lives lost would have been like
This is just so heartbreaking. Those poor people didn't have a chance. And the devastation! Horrific!
Last tornado that came through here in the Missouri Bootheel killed several people. Including my Uncles across the road neighbors who lost their 5 year old daughter….she was sliced in half by a piece of debris. RIP Annistyn Kate.
There aren't shelters for animals. Sure they will have a barn but a barn is not a storm shelter. Moreover, animals know how to move.
Storm shelters that families build in tornado areas must be underground. They are expensive and just large enough for a group of people. They are not going to build a huge underground shelter of many heads of cattle.
This was what I was going to say. Plus, in this scenario. He was not home, they stated . Lucky for him
There are several stages of warnings that those of us in tornado-prone districts know to watch out for. In ascending order of severity, you will see thunderstorm watch, thunderstorm warning, tornado watch and then tornado warning. It’s the tornado warning that sets off sirens, meaning you should seek shelter immediately, within minutes. We can become jaded when all of these watches and warnings come and go with nothing happening in our little slice of the community, but TV meteorologists have excellent technology to pinpoint the location and probable path if something does swirl up. I tend to stay glued to the TV until the danger is passed, and we do have a basement if needed. Peace …
Same here. I remember watching a channel near us showing the track of the tornado and the debris field.
Beyond a standard tornado warning, there is more.
Confirmed Tornado Warning
PDS Tornado Warning (stands for particularly dangerous situation)
Tornado Emergency
These additional warnings did not exist at the time of the Jarrell F5, as the Tornado Emergency was only invented 2 years later when metereologists came up with it on the spot due to how bad the May 3rd 1999 Moore Tornado was.
Kabir! There's NO TIME to get cows into a shelter! And even then, it wouldn't matter. If they're out at least MAYBE they could run somewhere? People barely have time to get themselves into a shelter if a tornado is approaching.
Hi Kabir! I remember the Jarrell tornado well. It was so powerful that it stripped the pavement off the ground. Just a few years later a tornado (EF3) would hit Fort Worth, Texas, where I live. It plowed through downtown causing millions of dollars in damage
Welcome to the US but be aware our weather doesn’t play around!
I live in Jarrell now and I get so scared every time it storms badly. We've considered getting a storm cellar but they're expensive 🥲
I'm so glad I live in the part 0f the country where tornados are not where see them. Especially to the magnitude of of the Midwestern states. Though we get killer hurricanes.
I live south west of Jarrell. The sky turned greenish black. We watched those funnels (carrying lots of debris) spin off more funnels. Those hit our street and stores south of us. Picked up a locomotive engine off the train tracks and toss it like a toy. That was one scary tay.
Getting cows indoors would be pointless. They would need to be underground. The cattle is just as safe in the pasture.
Kabir, are you looking at the size of the fields? If you were to go and get the cows you would probably be dead before you reached the cows. The cows have a better chance in the field.
As someone who has visited the estate’s residential area and has met people who weren’t in town (only way they survived) the Jarrell Tornado….its sobering. A mile wide monster with 250+mph winds that churned debris and people like a blender…..it’s horrific
This year has been relentless with tornado outbreaks. It's almost like a sick joke at this point.
Mother nature is not happy with us..
Fujitsu scale. 🤣🤣 You mean Fujita.
When i was a kid i lived in Kansas for a little bit, it was so creepy when tornado weather systems were around u could tell, the sky was green, low black clouds, every animal was gone or completely silent, not a leaf moved despite the clouds moving fast in opposite directions.
I saw a tornado years ago and my first thought was that it DID look like what one would imagine the end of the world would be like . The sky turned a sick looking gray-green color , it got very still and all of the birds stopped singing . There was so much electricity in the air that my body hair was standing straight out . Dark angry looking clouds started swirling around and there were a few beams of sunlight coming down through gaps in the clouds . I half expected to see God coming down on one of them.
I can’t think of a tornado that’s as horrifying as Jarrell, and that’s saying something considering how insane some of these tornadoes get. I guess the only one that comes close, for me, would be the Guin, Alabama tornado of 1974. They say that one actually tore up foundations instead of just wiping them clean.
Thanks for posting these 👏
6:10 Oh, Kabir, you sweet summer child.
I think the tornado you are thinking of is the Joplin tornado. El Reno was the largest recorded but thankfully happened in wide open spaces.
Tornadoes can move rather slow or really fast along the ground. I think the normal speed of travel is in the 30 miles per hour range or about the speed of the storm.They believe the fastest one traveled about 90 mph along the ground. Not much time to react. Weather conditions can change fairly rapidly.
The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF) they talk about is only an estimation of the wind speed within a tornado. It is calculated by the type/scale of damage that occurs to actual structures. Tornadoes that may have 200 mpr winds could be classified as EF0-1 because they traveled over fields, or EF5 because well constructed houses were swept off their foundations and automobiles were thrown 109 yards away. Even if radar shows the wind speed to be high, the classification the tornado is arrived at by the damage.
We are in an area where a good percentage of the homes have basements. There are so many areas in the US where either the water table is too high or the bed rock is too close to the surface to make shelters either too expensive or impracticable to build.
Hopefully I’m the first to point out that Jarrell wouldn’t be considered high plains it has an elevation average of 827 feet Jarrell is just north of Austin Texas.
I was chasing another tornado, off and on, up northeast of Dallas while this was occurring. What they don't mention in this video is that 23-26 people were never found!! There were truck and car engines in the fields with no sign of the vehicles. They had been ripped apart and carried off.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
The beginning of the video he says "27 people would disappear, literally" it was mentioned.
6:31 Oh Kabir! When you pause, back up! It’s early, maybe you did…. 6:42 Nope. You missed just how strong the tornado was! It REMOVED the top of the storm shelter that was under ground! It doesn’t matter what kind of shelter those cows were in. They wouldn’t survive.
9:13 This tornado was an absolute beast. I’d love to see you do multiple documentaries on this one.
12:14 One of the worst things about this tornado was that it was grinding through.
There a great documentary about the Jarrel tornado. 'If you see him in a tornado, you are about to die. The deadman has just walked into Jarrel'.
That was horrific...unimaginable terror for those people with no where to hide from on coming destruction
We were driving from Dallas to San Antonio on 5/29/97 and we went through Jarrell…I grew up in the Texas Panhandle up by Amarillo and saw several tornadoes and even was in a house hit by a small one, but this Jarrell tornado was crazy. Those houses were wiped off the foundations. Like there was nothing left. I remember standing there and my whole being was just in shock at the damage path. Cars were found over a mile away just picked up and thrown, trees that were still in the ground had the bark peeled off, we drove across the area where the asphalt had been scrubbed off the road. When I was growing up and while living in Dallas all the tornadoes went from west to east…most often southwest to northeast…sometimes northwest to southeast…but never had we ever seen a tornado go from northeast to southwest…it also was only a few blocks from I-35 which is the most heavily traveled highway in Texas…I will never forget seeing that and just standing there praying for the loved ones of those people annihilated by that tornado. It was terrifying to think what they went through. (And yes this was an F-5 which is what that tornado at the start of Twister was supposed to be)
Ancient Native American Legend says that “if you see the dead man walking, in a tornado, you are about to die.” 🏃🏽☠️☠️☠️
In my community of Kokomo Indiana, there is a North and a South side of town separated by the Wildkat Creek (more or less a river). When the white folk were settling the area, the Native populations warned them to never settle south of the Wildkat Creek, because the bad weather passed through that area! And guess what, they were right! When we do have tornadoes they almost always go North past town, or they tear through the South end directly. Look up Kokomo Indiana Starbucks tornado, that one was pretty minor but at least recorded! However, I think some of the new factories going up in the area are effecting our weather and dissipating storms, they've been less steady the last decade or so.
"Fujitsu" is a Japanese tech company.😆 I think you're looking for "Fujita", he's a few doors down the hall, in meteorology.😆
I was rolling at that! 🤣
@@thamertanner5448 So was I, while I was typing it.😆
The tornado with the highest took place on May 21st 2024
In Greenfield Iowa with wind speeds from 309-318 mph
Luckily, not in the spots where the most damage was
A buddy of mine calls people whole predict weather 'terrorists' because they almost never get it right and in winter often send everyone into panic
What you call a "horror movie", we call "spring". 😕
Jarrell f5 is the most damage ever done by a tornado.
Shelters are generally small and livestock have always had to fend for themselves.
Joplin is what you expect tornado damage to be. And for clarification the pictures from Jarrell is prior to clearing debris.
The tornado strength is determined by wind speed.
It’s destroyed Barns if you could even found up cows that quickly into a barn
Love your videos❤❤❤❤❤
Catastrophic weather can happen in Europe as well. Just yesterday, a severe thunder storm passed through Bavaria. It had wind speeds up to 250 kph. First reports are that many homes were damaged.
Love your vids man. I live in Austin, Tx. So I love seeing your Texas ones
No, there are no storm shelters for cows,
It's the Enhanced Fujita scale
Sweet Home Alabama here !
Beryl was a CAT 1 hurricane.
I was there that day, watched the smaller funnels heading that way as I took cover. Saw the aftermath the next day, simply horrific.
I live like 50 miles south of Jarrell, was a kid when that tornado hit
The reason that tornado was so devastating in Double Creek Estates was, because it just sat on top of them churning. It was moving incredibly slow. Usually a tornado comes barreling through but, not that day.
Back in the 1800's, you just hope you find a ditch. Same with today if you're driving on a road or highway. Gotta find a ditch. We don't have basements in Texas. So, if something like this comes around, we're screwed.
Jarrell just had a Trench collapse. Two bodies were recovered in the early hours yesterday. I believe they were workers, because a trench was being built. There was about 20 feet of dirt on top of them.
Are you talking about the derecho or Hurricane Beryl?
"The Thunder of God"
Check out this video : Europe's Tornado Alleys
Kabir , you should react to the tri state tornado video by creepy zion
You should react to 2011 the year of the EF5
Thanks for reacting, but yes, a sobering video.
I suspect things like the sky randomly reaching a death finger down to kill you has something to do with the religiosity of this region.
Texas here 🙋♂️
Why would people in the 1800s be any less familiar with tornadoes than we are today? They were a pretty regular thing back then too.
That is true, although we now have all of the media that talks about them, where at that time some who lived in small communities might not have heard much about them.
Gods finger.
This is not the "most devastating tornado ever." Look up the Tri State Tornado in 1925. It was unrated because ratings did not exist then, but is estemated as being an EF5. The tornado killed at least 695 people, injured more than 2298, and totally destroyed the town of Gorham, and DeSoto, Illinois, leveled most of Murhphysboro. Farther east several small mining villages were obliterated.
The tornado was on the ground for three and a half hours, and cut a swath of destruction from the state of Missouri, through Illinois, and into Indiana, covering 219 miles (352km). It is still the longest lasting, greatest distance, and most deadly tornado in US history.
The damage is certainly among the most devastating. There is no analogue to the damage that Jarrell did - Smithville is probably closest, but Jarrell is still several levels beyond that.
@@warriyorcat And the Tri-State was several levels beyond that.
It literally wasn't. We have pictures of the damage Tri-State did, and pictures of the damage Jarrell did. You can tell what Tri-State hit based on leftover damage. You cannot say the same for Jarrell because everything was so granulated.
People don't build shelters nor strong enough homes. Darwin Award candidates. Tornado shelters don't cost much
They can't really build shelters in that area though. Like the video states, bedrock is only 18 inches below the soil, and digging into bedrock costs a lot of money. The Hernandez family's shelter was hand-dug with a shovel and a pickaxe between 1991-1997. In other places in the US, the water table is too high. If you dug a storm shelter, it would flood and you'd drown. Maybe try to think of why something may not be there instead of being a judgmental asshole.
@@warriyorcat NEVER do below ground shelters. Only above ground. During a downpour (often comes with a tornado) you can drown. google: monolithic dome tornado shelter
@@warriyorcat Never build an underground tornado shelter in those areas. One can drown in flooding due to heavy precipitation that can accompany such storm systems. Properly built above ground concrete shelters can withstand winds up to 500 mph.
One NEVER runs home to shelter from a tornado that is heading towards the home unless it has a purpose built shelter. Staying your car and driving away is MUCH safer.
I've actually put some thought into this. I have lived near Jarell (by Texas measures) all my life. After this tornado, the same storm dropped two smaller tornadoes within a mile of my house, on north and one south. I pay attention to the warnings, recommendations, and reasons behind them. In nearly every other tornado event, the two worst places are in a vehicle or under an overpass.
Except for rare monsters like this one, an interior room in a solidly built house is your best chance if you don't have a storm shelter.
You are stuck on roads with a limited path of movement. A tornado can take a straight shot across the land and most are much faster than Jarrell. They can also pull back up into the clouds to leap frog across the ground. Don't gamble on predicting the wind. Also weather that usually accompanies a twister is bad enough to blow over 18 wheelers and the rain reduces visibility to mere feet in front of your car. If that twister heads towards you, you would be trapped in an exposed, raised box that would be battered from all sides, including the undercarriage.
You would be safer laying flat on the ground, in the open. There are actually people who have survived minor tornados passing directly over them by clinging to trees and vegetation while doing this.
@@cblynn485 Not relevant. I didn't say to get hit by a tornado when in a car. It is SAFER being in a car NOT being hit by a tornado than in a house that IS being hit by a tornado. THAT is pure unassailable logic.
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Like to kid around but these tornadoes are horrible
Ancient urban legend 😂
A bit of advice for Americans, don't live in an area called Tornado Alley. If you do, don't make your buildings out of wood.
Some of the homes mentioned in this video were literally well built brick homes. Wind / air doesn't care. In some cases, everything, including stone, was demolished down to bedrock.
Tornadoes can happen anywhere and you can't always build underground because of the local water table. Making wide sweeping generalizations does no good.
If you feel that passionate about tornado safety, try educating yourself more on the subject. The more people working toward providing better warning systems and shelters, the more lives can potentially be saved.
I'd rather get hit with drywall and a two-by-four than a brick. Also, everywhere can be tornado alley if the atmosphere tries hard enough.
no time bro, there is no time once a tornado coming to you , thats why every video you see of someone filming a tornado thats is close to them is a complete fool not realising the number of russian roulette bullets he is dodging. Just imagine if a tornado is spinning 100 mph how fast does it travel?
Hi Kabir! I remember the Jarrell tornado well. It was so powerful that it stripped the pavement off the ground. Just a few years later a tornado (EF3) would hit Fort Worth, Texas, where I live. It plowed through downtown causing millions of dollars in damage
Hi Kabir! I remember the Jarrell tornado well. It was so powerful that it stripped the pavement off the ground. Just a few years later a tornado (EF3) would hit Fort Worth, Texas, where I live. It plowed through downtown causing millions of dollars in damage