Jarrell tornado survivors remember ‘The Last F5’ to hit Central Texas, 25 years later

I drove down I-35 from Dallas and saw how badly damaged I-35 was in that mile-or-so north of town, and then I-35 veers to the west slightly, but the tornado kept going straight. It was awesome and horrible to see.

I think Gary England from KWTV and Jim Spencer from KXAN are the best storm trackers ever.

Mallory is annoying.

Not enough video footage so it's boring

Whares the sirens

I used to live in Cedar Park!
I live in eastTexas now! We
have bad storms here too! I
have a tornado shelter, so I
feel safer!

Wow this was in depth. I’m so sorry to everyone who went through this.

Kristen is hot! Like in a female Rocky Dennis way 😂

It destroyed that town

An F5 tornado hit Lubbock Tx 5/11/1970, killing 26 people, 255 people with significant injuries, and 1,500 with minor injuries. I lived in Amarillo at the time, and saw the destruction in Lubbock. 1,100 homes destroyed, 8,876 homes damaged. The tornado contributed to the Fujita scale development.

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My God

My father and I watched the Jarrell tornado from our home in Salado. Close to Eight miles away, yet we could feel the air being sucked from our lungs.we couldn’t hear the roar of the tornado but we could feel the rumbling on the ground.

I'm an Oregon native...you celebrate a good lightening storm here--such beauty! Visited the Austin, TX area a couple times mid-Summer...one trip to Ft. Myers, FL mid Summer. The storms they get out there are crazy, scary! Exploring South of Ft. Meyers and there were 4 or 5 thunderclouds piling up. 15-20 miles away. I pull into a huge roadside turn-out to get some pictures and a lightning bolt hit the palm trees 60' away. In the care...leg going like a sowing machine...I was so scared! No storm clouds for 15-20 miles. I can't imagine going to sleep in the mid-West with storm warnings. Enjoyable little storms here in Oregon. Glad to come across this video.

Did that sign read, early 1900s when the tornado hit?

Why would you NOT find a way to protect your family! Move out of that hell hole of a state.
Rent a house with a basement, anywhere but there!! If you can afford to burry five people, you can afford payments on a shelter!

I am so glad the the female news caster found this so extremely funny!!!!! I would think it was extremely funny if they FIRED HER LAUGHING BACKSIDE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am 71 and have never see one in my life!! Thank God! But, lived in Atlanta when one hit downtown!
THERE SHOULD BE BUILDING CODES THE REQIRE STORM SHELTERS IN THESE STATES, IN EACH NEW BUILD. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE BUBBAS.???

Wow I remember this day I was at work on parmer ln Sonic drive in and it was cloudy and me and some co workers got on the roof to smoke some weed and you could see the clouds piling up it turned black almost green and the we saw it in the distance and then bang you could see it form Over round rock and then all the first responders you could see the light they were getting ready to go in

I live in California and even I know that if the clouds look green that you take shelter and turn on the news

Cops are cowards, tyrants and inhumane dolts. Used to respect them. Over 70 yrs. They are uninformed, ans have no humane common sense. It is absolutely DISGUSTINGG. They shoot innocent human beings. They invade our homes, and believe they are above the law. ALL OF THEM NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. ALL OF THEM.

Wow. These are getting worse and worse.

It didn’t throw the cars into the distance, it OBLITERATED THEM. That’s crazy. I lived really close to the town that took the harshest blow from deadliest fire in CA history, people were incinerated when their propane tanks exploded. There’s something really humbling when nature zaps us like helpless bugs.

I know it’s easy to say things when we aren’t there, but I grew up in Georgia and we had pretty crazy tornadoes and tropical storms. When Katrina hit, my mom got my ten year old self, my twin sister, her pretty big self, our two medium sized dogs, and our Guinea pig into the bathtub once.

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Joplin was an f5...

Sorry people but the worst is still yet to come according to the bible

This tornado chills me to the bone. It was just so vicious, the way it granulated all the debris and just left NOTHING.

I’m glad that they need to look more into this including I would like to see kids watch this as well speaking to a tornado survivor like myself this year it will be 26 years coming up this month in May. I hope someone gives me 100 or thumbs up

I don't mean any disrespect but the lady hunkered down with her mother with a mattress over them asking her mom if they were going to die,.!! Really?? You can't ask someone during a tornado coming if you're going to die.! You look to a positive side within yourself to survive through it.

It’s not climate change. It the government seeding the atmosphere to produce intense storms.

Didn’t Twister come out in 1997? That had to be a low blow for these people who had to go through this.

Looking up violent tornadoes that have struck in Texas since Jarrell, there was only one more violent (F4-F5) that occurred before the Enhanced Fujita-Scale was implemented, a F4 that struck Loyal Valley about one month after the Oklahoma City Metro F5 in 1999. The first violent tornado to strike Texas in the new millennium was Granbury on May 15th, 2013. After that: Garland-Rowlett on 12/26/2015, Eustace-Canton #1 on 4/29/2017, and two that struck West of Texarkana on November 4th, 2022, that hit Powderly with the other hitting Clarksville.

We live in a fairly tornado active are in southern Canada and I remember my dad saying when we were young kids if you ever see the sky turn green get in the nearest ditch. that was only place to take any shelter.

What did they think, that almighty God would forget and forgive the horrible suffering, brutality, and rape of our black ancestors for over three centuries? And they still to this day haven’t connected the dots, including unfortunately some of our own people.

God hates texass. It's his justice.

Very good video.

You can say what you want about GW, but “it sucked the life out of the earth” was a good way to put it…This Jarrell tornado is just so nuts. Watching how small the damn thing was at the beginning and then it just exploded as it sat on the Double Creek homes and families😔 it was like a beautiful, slender apparition and then became like a finger of god…I’ve loved tornadoes since before Twister, but that movie kinda fails on how terrifying the violent tornadoes truly are…The “jumping” F3 in that movie got pretty close to the menace, if only they could have did the F5 as well as the f3😕

I’ve also noticed how insanely different THE SAME tornado can look from multiple filming areas😨I can see how chasers can get caught off guard because they could be seeing something completely different that what someone on the opposite side would see😕

Jarrell is such a unique event, best wishes to all impacted🥺

I've been through 2 storms that hit the coast of New England, 1978 4' of ocean slush in our living room, 1991 swept the house out to sea but this storm and that image of the walking man is etched into my mind, knowing how violent and slow it progressed over those poor people breaks my heart, even all these years later. RIP🙏

It really wasn’t that strong. It was only strong cuz it stalled. Anyone saying “it got to 400+ winds!” Is lying. Most winds is 200 which is F2-3

Our middle school was on a Texas history trip (down from Plano) and stayed at a motel in Jarrell or JUST outside of Jarrell the very same day. I was 12. I remember being in the motel parking lot and not being able to see past the parking lot because the atmosphere was so black. Like walls of black surrounded the motel...like nothing existed beyond the black or the hotel lights behind me (still kinda haunts me to this day) The lighting was so intense and ill never forget the fear I saw in one of the teachers faces when we were told to go inside. There is no doubt we narrowly escaped this tornado and I am so lucky to be typing this now. I am only now realizing 25 years later that I was seeing the darkness of death right in front of me. Us kids had no idea the severity of it. Big thanks to the teachers for keeping us calm. God bless

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That day I was working for Austin Power and Light and was off of I-35 on the hill above KLBJ Radio doing maintenance and looking North...and you could see a storm coming...worked next 24 hrs...

There may have been bigger and more destructive tornados. But this one shakes me to my core. Horrible.

I remember a family of 3 from Laredo lived there in Jarrell unfortunately the young mother and her two sons tried to escape but they didn't make it..

A man in a city 50 miles away found photo albums from families in Jarrell.
50 miles.
Photo albums, clothing articles.