JARRELL, Texas — Twenty-eight years ago this week, on May 27, 1997, a catastrophic F5 tornado struck Jarrell in Williamson County, leaving a trail of devastation and claiming 27 lives in the Double ...
Texas hasn't seen a confirmed F5 or EF5 tornado since the Jarrell tornado disaster on May 27, 1997, when a mile-wide twister erased a series of homes in the small Central Texas town north of Austin, ...