1997-05-27 Jarrell, TX F5 Tornado by Wayne Persky *1080p60*
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2022
- It's the video seen in practically every Jarrell documentary, now remastered in 1080p60. Thank you Mr. Persky for sending me this copy for transfer. Deinterlaced to 60fps, and upscaled to HD to retain 60fps.
Update: Mr. Persky’s account of the day via email correspondence:
“We had a corn processing plant on our farm (we delivered food corn to chip and tortilla plants in Austin), located on a hill, and the weather was so sultry and threatening that day that we could sense that something was probably going to happen. So we stepped out to check the weather now and then, and we noticed the tornado when it was still a rope, a few miles north of Jarrell. Since I was only about a quarter-mile from home, I drove home, got my video camera, and drove back.
When I got back, I drove out to the public road where I could get a clear view, but the tornado had disappeared. I decided to go back to work, but then it suddenly reappeared, in a much bigger form, south of where we last saw it. So I drove back out to the public road, and parked next to one of our cornfields. I got out and leaned against the pickup so I could get a steadier shot, because the wind was blowing and making it difficult to stay steady. After I started taping, now and then I could hear a big hailstone hitting the pickup, but I kept on taping, hoping that one wouldn't hit me, because they were big enough that one would probably have knocked me out cold, if it hit me in the head. I don't remember how long the session lasted, because the tornado seemed to last forever. At the time, I didn't realize it was at Jarrell, I thought it was farther away. The pickup wound up with about 1/2 dozen big dents in the hood and on top of the cab, but fortunately I didn't get hit by a hailstone.” 
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Perfect. No stupid music. No annoying commentary. Just pure, raw footage. Perfect.
Exactly
And no annoying chasers hollering 🙄
I totally agree.
With a stupid watermark right in the middle of it. No thanks.
The 27th day of may and 27 people were killed. Had the dead man walking inside the tornado
Eerily beautiful yet ferocious and deadly. Poor victims, may they all rest in peace.
That tornado defied all meteorological logic. It was moving in a southwesterly direction instead of northeast, and basically sat still a few times, with 300+ mph winds destroying, nay….granulating everything beneath it. All of the worst tornado nightmares wrapped into one hellish funnel.
Not to mention this tornado was acting like a drill of sorts so even the groud had holes at one point
@@yom0mma214 It removed more pavement from roads than any tornado in US history.
@@blake7871 yup
If you re not an atheist you know quite well what this tornado was about, at least after digging into this for a little bit.
@@MasterBlaster220 Personally I've always believed that Tornadoes have a supernatural vibe to them, like there is an unseen force that controls the funnel
This is without a doubt the holy grail of tornado footage. I've searched for years to see the actual transition from the small rope like tornado to the large wedge that we see here.
You can find the radar images online too... I also think a weather man by the name of Lon. Curtis did extensive study of the jarrell tornado
A natural phenomenon so beastly, the livestock was impaled by shards of wheat from a nearby field. This F5 didn't just reduce Double Creek to mere rubble; it was obliterated to mere dust. I've seen the devastation left behind by some of the more notable funnels of doom, but this beast left nothing behind, except for slabs of concrete where people's homes once stood. I've never seen anything like it and hopefully never will. This went from a single, pencil thin drill bit to a 3/4 mile wide, multi-vortex grim reaper that basically sat on Double Creek.
It happenned far more often than people realise. Jarrell is just a popular example. Here are a few more.
Guin 1974 (this one reduced mobile homes to metal frames wrapping them around debarked trees, some houses were swept swept away with their foundations being dislodged and in some cases swept away entirely).
Wheatland 1985 (this storm reduced a factory to mangled metal beams.)
Bakersfield 1990
(This tornado rolled oil tanks for 3 miles lifting them into the air in some places, while scourring the ground and asphalt.)
Pampa 1995 (this tornado shredded an industrial plant metal beams and wrapped equipment around it, it also moved a 35.000 pound machine .)
Loyal Valley 1999
(This one would scour the ground and reduce mesquite trees to debarked stumps. The animals were also mangled in the same way as in Jarrell.)
Bridge Creek 1999
(While this one is known for the damage it did in moore at bridge creek the ground was scoured in a similiar way with some houses having their debris shredded. Note that this storm moved way faster than jarrell.)
Parkersburg 2008
(This tornado scourred the ground in some places, ripped open the basements of houses and shredded debris.)
And the list goes on...
This was also the last F5/EF5 tornado ever to occur in Texas. In Jarrell, it left 27 people dead.
I read it was also the southern-most F5 tornado of those recorded in the U.S.
In my opinion the most fascinating storm in US history. This tornado was just different because nobody will ever know just how truly strong it was at its peak
As I understand it was a slower moving storm that moved in the wrong or unlikely direction as well
Idk how anyone could find this or any other tornado more fascinating than the tri state one from 1925
@bearzdlc2172 definitely another fascinating one. They all are in their own way. Tri State, Andover, Jarrell, El Reno, Joplin, and countless others. All historic but in different ways
@@mikewiley7529 None of them come even close to Tri-State though. Hackleburg is the closest to being as terrifying as it was, and the other tornadoes on april 27th. Jarrel was a freak event but it and the others you listed (excluding tri state of course) dont even come close to the destruction that tri state did.
260mph+
Hello, I am retired senior citizen and my grandson is a new meteorologist (congrats). We had family gathering last month and of course my first question to him, "which tornado was most powerful," without hesitation he said, "Jarrell." Then he pulled out his laptop and proceeded to show me some Jarrell ground/aerial photos, and those vacant concrete slabs were visually shocking. He also said, "twisting speed was 300 mph but what made this tornado so extraordinary was it's slow movement intensifying it's destruction substantially." So here i am and what i researched myself in 30 days was mesmerizing yet eerie. First and foremost R.I.P. to those that perished and my condolences to all family members/friends.
27 deaths caused by the tornado occurred within one subdivision of Jarrell, a neighborhood of 38 well built houses called Double Creek Estates. Each residence was completely swept away and reduced to a concrete slab. The twister produced some of the most extreme ground scouring ever documented as the earth at and around Double Creek was scoured out to depths of 18 inches reducing lush fields of grass to vast expanses of mud. The tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of fences, telephone poles, trees, pavement and homes that once dotted the landscape. Cars and heavy wreckers were granulated into small pieces and scattered across the earth never to be identified, think about that for a ..moment.
The cause of death for most of the victims was tactfully listed by the county coroner as "multiple trauma", although the truth was obviously far more grisly and difficult to explain to next of kin. Human and animal body parts reportedly littered the area for miles, creating an unbearable stench of decay. Police were forced to close off the entire area as a biohazard zone for weeks as cadaver dogs worked to find human body parts buried throughout the wreckage. Pieces were spread out on the floor of a local volunteer fire department - recovery teams tried to distinguish human remains from animal remains. Most had to be identified through dental records. Many were never recovered at all. What a nightmare.
Timothy P. Marshall is a structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist. He has conducted more than 10,000 damage surveys of tornadoes, hurricanes and hailstorms. Tim is best of the best and after surveying Jarrell he said, "Houses were obliterated. The destruction was so intense, it serves as a baseline for which all other tornadoes are rated against."
Regardless if tornado is moving forward at 8 mph or 80 mph, fact remains that so many surveyors consider Double Creek storm to be the most catastrophic tornado in terms of intensity still today 2022. I've seen photographs of Bridge Creek, Hackleburg-Phil Cambell, Bakersfield Valley, Smithville, Pomeroy, Udall, Brandenburg, Pampa, Parkersburg, Loyal Valley, Philadelphia-MS, Plainfield, Greensburg, Xenia, El Reno, Joplin and they do not compare to Double Creek Estates duration intensity, Nothing Does.
I've learned and seen enough
What did i learn ?
That "Dead Man Walking" is an understatement
And my advice ?
If you see one,
RUN !!!!
D, Anderson USMC
2/9/3 68-69
To whoever is out there reading this message, if you are having a hard time just remember you are not alone and never give up. The person who is reading this message, i wish you success, health, love and happiness.
Jarrell wasn't the most powerful. However, it did create the most intense damage. Engineers investigated too, and found that building codes weren't being followed. It didn't take F5 winds to do that damage.
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish.
Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level?
"Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA
There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History.
In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
@@Maria.Isabella.Sanchez No, because it was moving at only 9-10MPH. Homes in Double creek were subjected to F5 winds for a full 3 min! The sill plates were weren't even anchored down to the foundations. This was historic in the fact that it along with May 3rd convinced others that the F-scale be modified. F5 winds & F5 damage are completely different from each other.
@@black_David_Frost. F5's/EF5's do amazing damage. The sill plates were brought up because alot of people believe Jarrell left no clues. It did. The truck was tumbled around constantly. Nothing shocking there.
Even where he's standing, pretty far away from it, the wind right there next to him is flowing towards the tornado, as if it's pulling all the air around the area into it's vortex, knowing where's it's headed and the catastrophy coming is scary as hell.
Always nice to see interlaced footage handled properly. This is a phenomenal transfer of perhaps some of the most important tornado footage ever recorded.
YYYEEESSSS!!!! It's about damn time some more Jarrell TX Footage has been leaked
@@angelescobalesjr.8533 I think we can all appreciate the sentiment that we are just glad they are seeing the light of day, right?!
As others have said, thank you and Mr. Persky for sharing this historic footage with the world. First we were blessed with the mythical 'transition' video, now this fascinating artifact!
If only local news agencies didn't own the rights (and sometimes only existing copies) to some of the rarer, interesting pieces of footage. Over time they will lose them, or just sit on them.. and in the worst cases - my own hometown tornado Wichita Falls (1979) being an example - have them removed from RUclips if someone else tries to share the history.
Glad this one was still in private hands. Thanks to both of you!
I’ve always been wanting to see how it became a large tornado from a small rope. This video doesn’t disappoint!
As far away this camera appears to be, the tornado looks huge, can't imagine what it must be like in front of the F5,
What amazes me is how rapidly it intensified into a monster. Multi vortex tornado. So eerie to see “Dead Man Walking”. It was far from textbook in its development. I am fascinated by tornado’s but they are terrifying as well. A F5 is a blender that chews and destroys everything in its path. I could not imagine the terror of hunkering down when a F5 is barreling toward you and yours loved ones. My heart goes out to the souls and entire family’s that lost their lives.
Jarrell was hit previously by a tornado in 1989. Some of the homes destroyed then were built back better than before but they did not stand a chance for this slow moving monster.
I’m always amazed by the size of the wind field.
Did you notice that starting about 3:30 in, the funnel would scoot forward inside the circulation, then the cyclone would move to catch up? It literally looks as if it is walking into Double Creek Estates, very slowly, One step at a time. Creepy from the Dead Man Walking Tornado
It was there @ 7:20. It was at it's widest there.
It was actually. There was something sentient behind it.
My shelter is rated for EF5 but I'm not 100% confident it could remain standing in the path of a tornado that wipes a foundation clean.
And that was moving this slow
You’re correct ef5 winds not ef6 yet to be determined winds
You would have to be underground for this because it was moving so slow.
Wow! That is amazing! That thunder sounds like the 1999 Moore tornado as it came through!
This Tornado and Moore 1999 are the holy grail of F5 Monsters
Hudsonville was worse than Jarrell
Hey, your effort paid off, good job. I remember your video asking for footage back in the day.
It's crazy how this storm even created the words "not up for re-upload" and it had a play button embedded in the tornado. It was that powerful. The Storm was so powerful that it created words.
Great. I first saw a clip of this on a TV special on the 20th anniversary of the Jarrell tornado. By assembling various clips, you were able to see how the famous thin tornado roped out, and then I'm this footage the killer behemoth formed. Great post
I live in Austin and I saw on the news the other night after a storm that Jarrell was hit for the third time this year by a small tornado. 2022
When he zooms back in,halfway through the video, it still is behind the same line of trees. They were not kidding when they said it took about 2-3 minutes to completely pass over Double Creek Estates. How disturbing and sad. God bless their families.
The PTSD the survivors most deal with, especially in the first year’s following. 6:34 people are def dying and going through unspeakable hell on Earth. An experience that maybe no one else on the face of the Earth has ever suffered through.
that's a house you see flying at the bottom
This tornado and the Philadelphia MS one from 2011 are some of the most ferocious tornados I've seen in relation to the amount of drilling and damage done to the ground
Amazing how that storm began so tiny! Very tall, elegant but tiny-just a few yards wide then as it approached Jarrell became a monster multiple vortex beast
Thank you Wayne Persky and Angel for this video- I've been hunting for ages for more videos of this behemoth of a tornado so seeing this come up in my feed I was like a kid on Christmas. I reckon it arrives at Double Creek about 6:10, debris cloud gets bigger from then on and you can see a roof or something fly up into the bottom left of it at 6:34. Then this beastly blender just sits there for 5 minutes and mukbangs everything
Lol @ mukbangs everything.
It's not like it chose to. So few Koreans have seen a tornado at least once in their lives, especially the farmers. Much of the Korean Peninsula has a temperate climate like us Americans.
that's a whole house
@@SeatLeonMK2 Its neither, its simply a part of the tornado cloud. Look closely.
@@MasterBlaster220 oh yes, i see now
It's mind blowing the extent of how strong a tornado can be. An f5 is in its own universe of existence. A spinng apocalypse.
What a frightening aspect of life. These monstrous savages that periodically drop from the sky to annihilate a random place. Something out of a nightmare movie but actually a fact of nature.
This tornado turned an entire neighborhood into a muddy field in minutes.
You can hear that roar
People in Double Creek were literally getting blended during the course of this video
Any idea what part of the video is when it’s hitting there ?
@@TJ89741 It's tough to say exactly. The tornado's official touch down was at 3:40 PM, it entered DC at 3:48, and then lifted at 3:53. Problem is that we don't have a touch down or lift in this video, meaning that this is a middle segment of its lifespan. If the storm had just touched down at the very beginning, it would be entering DC towards the very end of the footage. However, the tornado was already ongoing, and from the looks of it in context with other footage, it had been for a few minutes. My guess is that DC got destroyed some time in the second half when the tornado looks almost stationary.
6:33 It's kinda crazy how remarkably similar the Jarrel tornado looks to the 2011 Philadelphia, MS tornado.
Both were very ominous looking stove pipes with insane upward motion.
Very true. Keep in mind this tornado is barely moving while Philadelphia was moving at 60 mph and still dug 2 ft trenches in the ground and ripped pavement off roads. Unreal power these things have.
Right
now you are saying it i realise, very creepy
This video creeps me out, the roar sounds so heavy almost like a demon : ruclips.net/video/KBc5XSGeHVc/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Gi29DemZioE/видео.html here you can also hear the roar in the beginning because the wind is in the direction of the camera, the ground was also shaking
I think this is the only video that exists which shows the transition from the initial needle funnel to the monster wedge..🌪️
hi, I really love watching your videos, especially the Jarrell tornado videos. I just wanted to ask how I could
get this video without the watermark thanks
Excellent video. I was watching it, thinking, that was very, very deadly and was in the process of shredding homes to smithereens. I saw the damage photos. No one in the path had a chance.
Amazing footage, but it's so uneasy to watch knowing that, maybe around the 6:28 mark, people are being shredded by wind.
Those 27 lives in Jarrell will never be forgotten.
All in one neighborhood too which makes it crazy
this tornado was absolutely brutal
This tornado removed 18 inches of dirt along its path...
6:59 Was that when Double Creek got hit???
Yes
@@angelescobalesjr.8533 no there Was Pieces of houses
6:27 is when it starts to hit Double Creek I think.
My 10 year old self was about 5 miles north of that thing Flippin out.
Slow moving nearly stationary during its path. Winds at or over 260 mph. The perfect name for this Tornado is The Mutilator. It literally ripped livestock and people to shreds. No other tornado has ever done that. I’ve never seen an F5 move this slow. This honestly in my opinion is a once in a 500-1000 year event. RIP to all the victims of this horrific event
Amazing how it turns from looking like almost nothing, then the explosion into a wedge within seconds…then it just sits on the housing plan😕rip to all of the people who lost their lives there
Great footage. May I ask from which location or direction this was filmed from? The tornado is barely moving. Terrifying.
@@angelescobalesjr.8533 that makes sense. The tornado was moving right to left. Thanks.
Ok I was gonna ask where the highway (I-35) is from this angle. If he’s East it seems like you’d still see it move a bit to the left.
@@angelescobalesjr.8533 FOUR MILES!!! 🤯 And the inflow jet is THAT powerful??? OMG!
Clueless people out claim this tornado only produced its damage because of its slow motion...wellll DUHHH...but this tornado was also incredibly powerful and it is not the only slow moving significant tornado to ever occur and none of those came close to this . Visually looking at this tornado at this long distance you can see how extremely violent the motion is.
Looks almost exactly like the 1953 Flint-Beecher tornado. Damage was very similar too.
How far away was the tornado from the camera
I was about a 1/4 mile away from this monster. Scariest day of my life
Incredible dangerous tornado
The rotation around the 5:30 mark is incredible.
Jarrell TX EF-5 kicked from the game due to inactivity (idling)
Mamia 🙏🏼
Magnificent raw footage. The Jarrell Tornado of '97 has to be one of the most sinister, yet ominously fascinating in tornadic history. Thank you for sharing, cheers mate 🍻
I saw a DPS video shot of this tornado and aftermath. It would be an absolute gold mine for everyone but also the absolute undoing also. My bf dad worked for RRFD and got the video that way. He made us promise not to record it. It started way to close!!!! I'm talking maybe a couple hundred yards. That DPS officer definitely ruined his pants. It was just as it was full strength while it was running just west of 35 then it started turning away from him heading sw. To his relief I'm sure. The quality was best I've ever seen. I'm guessing 3:30 in this video were it appears to stop. It just turned that might even be the overpass the officer was at just to the left and below the tornado. It's hard to tell. Unfortunately the rest of the video is at the subdivision that was wiped away. I wont describe that I wish I never saw it. Those ppl and cows had no chance. I can't find your wheres the tapes video I've seen described on other channels do you have another channel
That is one heck of a video description right there.
We just moved here lovellyyyy
Outstanding... better late than never!!!
What’s insane is that from that far away. It doesn’t even look that scary
This tornado literally sat still
It moved at walking speed.
Does anyone know how long this is after it gets bigger from being very thin and only a few yards wide?
I heard an account of a pilot who flew by or around the storm and I guess it was very fn big and scariest from his vantage
I wonder how much energy this specific tornado generated or could
@@angelescobalesjr.8533 I thought it was pretty clear that it had to have been for to five the last third of it when it seemed to have the best contrast whether it was due to proximity being closer or the funnel just getting thicker but I thought perhaps it was during the rope part but because of the distance it really just looks like rising air just the beginning of a normal updraft almost because I know it kind of had a bit of a land spelled look to it not that it was but I don't know how else to compare it other than a little funnel at the top and a cylinder beneath it the vortices and the dead man I'm pretty sure we're only a few frames on the radar and then you can see from every video they have of it the helical motion being even more impressive than Andover I can't think of any other comparison and more and the forward velocity was far faster but the rippling on the side I'm guessing the Worcester or Flint in 1953 had some type of rippling as well but that's just my opinion I'm sorry for any typos I'll come back and fix this
@@RAWNERVZ I think I just had a stroke trying to read this.
@@Vorticity_Ty dear God man I thought I made a very clear disclaimer not to do that but I certainly commend the courtesy of showing me but having that stroke I suppose but my ideas are worth a few brain cells sometimes on a good day but I have very few places I can spew meteorological reflux
May 27 is my dads birthday
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I think your 1080p got a little sick or something. It don't seem so right
W Angel for this find
Most disgusting tornado. If it's not moving left or right, you better hope it's moving towards or away because if not, it's doing a Jarrell and turning every person, animal, and thing inside-out and into 100 million pieces.
not even close. it had already killed people but sat there and continued to disfigure things. its a very weird event but not even close to as scary or deadly as other tornadoes that do that much destruction while actually traveling a long path with a startling forward speed with that intensity that jarell only had from sitting in place for 5 minutes
@@bearzdlc2172 Hackleburg-Phillip Campbell is my close 2nd
3 minutes
It's almost mind-boggling to me that one of the most destructive tornadoes in recorded history happened with less than 100m2/s2 of storm relative helicity. An absolute freak storm that had no business doing what it did to those people.
they're beautiful when they're far away
I’ve read that there is some debate ast wheter this storm was truly an F5 or not because damage engineering studies concluded that the funnel probably could have still produced the same damage at F3 strength
you're right. jarrell is overrated as fuck in what it did. it wiped clean a slate of non anchored trailer homes and equally built structures WHILE sitting in place for over 5 minutes basically. its freaky that it did that but its not even close to one of the strongest tornadoes ever