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	Jarrell
		One of the troubling issues arising from the events of May 27th, 1997 was the origin of low- and mid-level vorticity and subsequent rotation of the storm updrafts in what was perceived to be an environment characterized by weak low-level flow and meager mid-level flow.
		Adam Houston and Robert Wilhelmson are using a supercomputer at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign to simulate the "Jarrell" storm and to research the role of pre-existing low-level boundaries on storm evolution in low-shear environments.
		In this instance, the researchers specified the atmospheric conditions that preceded the evolution of the "Jarrell" storm, but have been investigating the role of the pre-existing north-northeast to south-southwest boundary by changing its depth and characteristics as well as by omitting it from the specified conditions.
	homepages.vvm.com /~curtis/Jarrell/Jarrell.htm (2913 words)

	Jarrell, Texas Tornado Damage - May 27, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A buzzard hawk fell victim to the sudden intensification of the tornado NW of Jarrell.
		Closer to the center of the tornado's path, a harvester was flipped on its side and heavily damaged by the tornado.
		Trees near the center of the tornado's path were snapped off within a few feet of the surface, an indication of extremely rapid wind acceleration when the tornado struck.
	www.k5kj.net /jarrell.htm (1053 words)

	Jarrell warning about tornado called adequate (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jarrell residents had virtually no chance of surviving the fast-developing and exceptionally powerful twister in the subdivision, but dozens of lives were saved in the Austin suburb of Cedar Park when residents heeded warnings and took refuge in a supermarket's walk-in freezer.
		The Jarrell tornado laid waste to a seven-mile-long path that was almost a mile wide.
		Experts said the tornado, which developed several miles north of town, churned to a halt near a Jarrell subdivision, but "within a few seconds" transformed from a mild cyclone to one of the most powerful tornadoes recorded in the United States, catching both residents and forecasters off guard.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/98/05/21/jarrell.2-0.html (626 words)

	North Central Skywarn Operations Emergency Net
		JARRELL -- The tornado that obliterated a subdivision and killed 27 people was one of only four storms in the United States to be rated an "F5" in the past decade, according to weather experts who on Friday defended their efforts to warn the public.
		Surface markings indicate the tornado, whose funnel was sprawled about half-mile wide and wobbled as it careened through the area, was on the ground from 6 to 6.5 miles, the experts said.
		The Jarrell tornado was one of eight separate twisters verified that day, prompting a total of 49 official warnings, Dreumont said.
	www.ncos.org /jarrel.htm (781 words)

	CNN - Death toll from Texas tornadoes continues to rise - May 28, 1997
		JARRELL, Texas (CNN) -- Tornadoes ravaged four central Texas counties from Waco to Austin on Tuesday, destroying an entire subdivision in Jarrell where at least 34 people died and scores more were hurt.
		Dozens of people were forced into makeshift shelters at Jarrell, a small town 40 miles north of Austin that was nearly wiped out by a tornado eight years ago.
		Jarrell, a town of less than 1,000 people, was largely destroyed by a tornado May 17, 1989, that killed a woman and injured 28 people.
	www.cnn.com /WEATHER/9705/28/tornado.update/index.html (711 words)

	CNN - Jarrell, Texas, buries victims of killer tornado - May 31, 1997
		Services for 10 people were held in Georgetown, 13 miles north of Jarrell, because the devastation was such that workers were unable to clean up the cemetery in time for the burials.
		The tornado was one of the most powerful to hit the United States in the last decade, according to meteorologists at the National Weather Service.
		Jarrell was also struck by a tornado May 17, 1989, that destroyed buildings and killed one person.
	www.cnn.com /WEATHER/9705/31/tornado.update (804 words)

	USATODAY.com - Texas town struggles to cope with deadly tornado (Site not responding. Last check: )
		JARRELL, Texas (AP) — Standing in the park on a cool, sunny spring day, Dorothy Jones feels far removed from one of the deadliest tornadoes in Texas history.
		They should be commended for that," said Jones, who has lived in Jarrell since 1948 and rejected her daughter's pleas to move.
		The slab is engraved with the names of the 27 victims along with a woman who died in a 1989 tornado.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/news/2002/2002-05-27-jarrelltornadoanni.htm (653 words)

	Tornado Disaster -- Texas, May 1997
		The first tornado, a slow-moving multivortex F-5 (Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale) (Table 2), swept a path 7.6 miles long and approximately 1320 yards wide through a residential subdivision of Jarrell, a predominantly rural town in Williamson County, destroying 30 permanent homes, eight mobile homes, and three businesses (Table 1).
		NWS tornado watches and warnings are the primary method of alerting communities of an approaching tornado and are disseminated through public safety organizations, sirens, television, radio, or other electronic media (6).
		A tornado watch is issued when weather conditions indicate that a tornado may develop; a tornado warning is issued when a tornado has been sighted or detected by advanced weather technology (6).
	wonder.cdc.gov /wonder/prevguid/m0049839/m0049839.asp (1394 words)

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		A tragic tornado of unimaginable proportions hit Jarrell, in northern Williamson County, with over 261 mph winds around 3:42 p.m., causing extensive damage and 27 deaths.
		A tornado warning had been issued at 3:30 p.m., warning the residents in Jarrell of the impending danger.
		An F4 tornado on the Fujita wind damage scale, with winds over 207 mph, claimed yet another life in western Travis County near the community of Lakeway.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/wtxtsmry.htm (899 words)

	FACTS ON TEXAS TORNADOES
		This particular tornado was hanging out the west side of a super cell thunderstorm in the Texas Panhandle.
		May 18, 1902: A tornado cuts a wide swath through the town of Goliad; 114 are reported killed, 230 injured; 150 buildings are destroyed.
		The tornado that hit Topeka, Kansas on June 8th, 1966 was NOT slowed down by high rise structures or hills.
	www.beer-bytch.com /tornados.htm (1673 words)

	STNOV97
		While the time the tornado had over any given structure may have been longer than "average" which would have contributed to the reason why the houses were so well cleaned away, I still am quite confident that the winds in this tornado were on the order of 250 mph.
		The separation between the RFB and precip was on the order of 3-5 miles for most of the period from 1930Z to 2045Z, except that both the Morgans Point-Lake Belton tornado and the Jarrell tornado became rain-wrapped toward the end of their cycles.
		I rush southward to Jarrell (another 2 miles or less) and notice that what looks to be most of the residents are outside watching the tornado grow and move toward their city.
	www.stormtrack.org /library/archives/stnov97.htm (8201 words)

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		Reports are sufficiently frequent from the many villages along this T5-6 tornado's track to indicate that it probably was caused by a single tornado, rather than a series of individual tornadoes.
		The movement of the peak in tornado threat during the year is consistent with changes in the annual cycle of meteorological variables.
		As moisture from the Gulf of Mexico is advected northward and westward over the Great Plains during the spring and early summer, the timing of the maximum in the annual cycle moves with it.
	lycos.com /info/tornado--warnings.html (491 words)

	And Then Some TESSA Members
		Many Citizens who lost their lives at the Golden Sur mobile home park there were aware that a dangerous tornado was approaching, but for some reason or another did not evacuate their trailers and seek safe haven in the park's shelter.
		The Jarrell tornado was a violent tornado like the one that tore through Andover just six years earlier.
		It was a tornado of F5 intensity moving slowly across the ground.
	www.andthensome.com /weather/severeweather/tessa.htm (606 words)

	Jarrell
		Although there was an initial burst of interest in examining this event, the insuing events (in particular, the Oklahoma outbreak on May 3, 1999) resulted in redirection of interest away from this event, and a tendency to view this case as an unusual, perhaps inexplicable outlier.
		The object of drawing the distinction in the first place is to ascertain whether the tornado was directly related to the mesocyclonic process or resulted from other processes, including those described by Lee et al.
		Davies writes: "Estimated environments for the "weaker shear" tornado cases from this presentation are indicated by red squares, while environments for several "stronger shear" supercell tornado cases from 1999-2001 are indicated by fl open squares.
	www.vvm.com /~curtis/Jarrell/Jarrell.htm (2913 words)

	Pictures of the Jarrell Tornado/Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I just happened to have a whole spare roll of film in my camera left over from graduation, so my father and I took pictures of the tornado from my front yard.
		The tornado looked like this when we first saw it...it kept this form for about 15 minutes.
		The tornado was so strong that it pulled the pavement off the street.
	www.angelfire.com /sc/serah/jarrellpics.html (79 words)

	Jarrell Storm Shelters :: About Us
		Jarrell Storm Shelters was conceived just after the fatal tornado struck our town in May of 1997.
		After all the coverage on the Jarrell Tornado and the responses I had received on the storm shelters, I talked to my brother-in-law to see if he could help with ironing out all the details of receiving and installing these shelters.
		When the TV news correspondents came to Jarrell to see how things were one year later they broadcast information about survivors who decided to stay and what safety measures they had taken.
	jarrellstormshelters.com /aboutus.php (388 words)

	Severe Weather pages: Tornado
		The best protection during a tornado is in an interior room on the lowest level of a building, preferably in a basement.
		Tornadoes are most destructive when they touch the ground.
		Assessment of a tornado scale is done after the tornado has passed, according to the level and amount of damage left on the ground
	www.stvincent.ac.uk /Resources/Weather/Severe/tornado.html (894 words)

	27 May 1997 Central Texas Tornadic Event: Tornadoes
		It is shown that each of the six observed tornadoes that produced greater than F0 damage formed along the storm-generated gust front, not along preexisting boundaries.
		The remaining three tornadoes developed at the gust front cusp (the persistent gust front inflection located at the northeast end of the gust front distortion).
		It is suggested that extreme CAPE may have made both tornadoes and midlevel mesocyclones more likely than a comparable event with smaller CAPE because of the increased capacity for vorticity generation through increased tilting and/or stretching afforded by the stronger updrafts that are theoretically supported in higher CAPE environments.
	www.geosciences.unl.edu /~ahouston/research/jarrelltor/index.html (570 words)

	KTRE-TV - Lufkin/Nacogdoches, TX - Killer Storms: The Jarrell Tornado Part 2
		David Cockrum and his family were building a new house in Jarrell, Texas when one of the worst tornadoes in Texas history struck the town on May 27, 1997.
		After the tornado, Cockrum and his family were uncomfortable with the idea of living in Jarrell with what felt like no protection.
		Community shelters were also installed at Jarrell Memorial Park, dedicated to the family of five who died in the storm.
	www.ktre.com /global/story.asp?s=1878183&ClientType=Printable (361 words)

	Jarrell, Texas
		As the storm crossed from Bell into Williamson County, traffic halted on the interstate and hail peppered the ground ahead of a massive funnel cloud that snaked a thin white tail to the ground, where it expanded into a blue-fl column.
		The twister destroyed about 50 homes in Jarrell, or roughly 10 percent of the dwellings in the town of about 1,400 people.
		Along County Road 305 on the south side of Jarrell, roofs were blown off metal buildings behind Jarrell Farm Supply.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/txtrails/jarrell.htm (1745 words)

	ipedia.com: Jarrell Tornado Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Later analysis of the tornado indicated that it was a definite F5.
		It is believed that in the field where the Jarrell tornado developed that it ripped the corn husks out of the ground by the millions and then impaled the cows in the next field.
		This would be the last F5 tornado to hit the United States until April 7, 1998 when a tornado hit in Birmingham, Alabama.
	www.ipedia.com /jarrell_tornado.html (359 words)

	8-19-97 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the supercell thunderstorm that struck Jarrell moved perpendicular to the jet stream, toward the south-southwest, directly INTO the hot, humid air that feeds it, something in weather lingo called a right-turner.
		The best course of action in a tornado is to go to a building’s lowest level and seek a bathroom or closet, because small rooms are the most likely to survive a direct hit.
		The tornado itself quickly passed from the scene—a tornadic rebel whose death was mourned by no one.
	www.weathernotebook.org /transcripts/1997/08/19.html (314 words)

	Bell Consulting - Jarrell Tornado
		The Jarrell Tornado, in Williamson County; Texas was considered one of history's worst.
		This was an extremely rare event, as the F5 ranking it received is the highest for tornadoes.
		The Jarrell tornado passed just west of downtown and struck the Double Creek residential subdivision.
	www.bellconsulting.com /studies/jarrell.htm (163 words)

	Jarrel Tx Tornado
		All of the houses were totally blown away by the F5 tornado and all that remained were empty slabs.
		The tornado left empty house slabs and a mixture of trash everywhere.
		Before the tornado this was a neighborhood with houses and sheds, fences, cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
	www.rogersadler.com /Jarrel_tornado/jarrell.htm (448 words)

	Magsig, Burgess, and Lee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though at least one tornado appeared to fit a landspout formation mechanism, some of the tornadoes were detected along the gust front of the parent supercell (displaced 15-20 km to the east of the pre-existing windshift) which suggests more of a supercell tornadogenesis mechanism.
		While four strong to violent tornadoes occurred on this day, the evolution of the Jarrell tornado appears to be the most complex and is fortunately the best resolved (based on range from the Granger WSR-88D).
		The large circulation that became the damaging Jarrell tornado formed on this surge of outflow as it deformed the large and intense low-level convergence signature of the Jarrell storm.
	www.nssl.noaa.gov /users/brooks/public_html/sls19/abstracts/magsigburgesslee.html (531 words)

	Austin 360: News: A town is ripped apart, but not uprooted
		The Ruiz boys, John and Michael, knew that their mobile home was unsafe in a tornado, and so they got on their bikes and headed over to their family friends, the Moehrings.
		The control of nature is beyond the realm of human possibility, but we keep from going crazy by clinging to the belief that, because our homes and families were safe yesterday and the day before, they will be so when we return tonight and tomorrow and the day after that.
		Lynette Tonn was at the first place the tornado hit, crying, trying to impose order on an impossible mess with a broom.
	mysite.verizon.net /mnappo/jarrell.htm (2540 words)

	Jarrell Storm Shelters :: Your source for shelters!
		Between 1950 and 1994 more than 5400 tornados struck somewhere in the state of Texas.
		In May of 1997 our town of Jarrell was devastated by a F5 tornado.
		Please use the navigation bar to find out how our shelters are made and installed, and how you can have protection and peace of mind during a tornado or severe weather.
	www.jarrellstormshelters.com (237 words)

	Jarrell's tornado left heavily damaged agribusiness in its wake (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jarrell's tornado left heavily damaged agribusiness in its wake
		COLLEGE STATION (AP) -- The tornado that ripped through Jarrell last week had a tremendous impact on agribusiness in Williamson County, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service reports.
		He said that at least three farmers lost entire herds of either sheep or cattle in the tornado, and some farm equipment completely disappeared.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/business/97/06/05/texag.2-0.html (299 words)

	Jarrell Tornado
		The Jarrell Tornado, in Williamson County; Texas was considered one of history's worst.
		This was an extremely rare event, as the F5 ranking it received is the highest for tornadoes.
		The Jarrell tornado passed just west of downtown and struck the Double Creek residential subdivision.
	www.realestatedamages.com /Research/content/Jarrell.htm (173 words)

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