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To: basalt

The one I’ll never forget is the Jarrell, Texas tornado. There was literally nothing left but slabs.


24 posted on 03/30/2023 7:46:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

just watched a doc on that storm...they said, if theres any such thing as an F-6 tornado, Jarrell was it....not only swept clean, but majority of the debris was never found. I guess it granulated and just fell as dust else where...Lord.


26 posted on 03/30/2023 7:52:45 AM PDT by basalt (qb's)
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To: dfwgator

I was near the 1957 Ruskin Heights, tornado in south Kansas City. My dad had his carpenter foreman that lived in the impact area and he took me at six o’clock the next morning out to see if we could be of assistance. It was an eye opening experience. House after house gone and the subdivisions just basements in blocks of debris.

The foreman’s house was only modestly damaged as he was on the fringes of the impact area and he had built it himself so it was above average in details of construction. The house on either side and the house across the street were demolished — his would be repaired in a week with mainly glass damage.

True F-5 just like the one you reference in Texas.


32 posted on 03/30/2023 8:14:56 AM PDT by KC Burke (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
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To: dfwgator
The one I’ll never forget is the Jarrell, Texas tornado. There was literally nothing left but slabs.

Sad fact is most of the dead were literally ground to pieces. Fort Hood mortuary affairs had to come in and match fingers with hands, then hands with wrists, wrist to arms, arms to torsos, etc. You wont find the pictures or graphic details as they are still classified LES (law enforcement sensitive).

Coroner reports stated " massive/multiple blunt trauma"....a sanitary and better than telling relatives that most of your loved ones remains are the size of a quarter out there in that field still today.

They never found ANY remains of a couple of those poor souls. One of the teenagers they only found his one of his hands.

That tornado just stayed stationary and ground everything up.

If you ask "what is the most destructive tornado", they'll say Jerrell, TX.

It is the case study for destructiveness and was the cause of revisiting the Fujita scale and later became the Enhanced (EF) scale.

100 % fatality rate in the dark red brown (not the dark cloud shadow)...it even pulled up/scoured the grass down to 18". It stayed stationary for 2-3 minutes. Had it stayed for 2-3 mins more it might have even taken the slabs up (it took up parts of slabs in 4-5 homes.

Today, a baseball park and playground cover the homes of the 5 members of the IGO family:

It even took up roads:

When the first responders pulled up they found a muddy field. They looked for bodies for about an hour and came back to the command post perplexed at no human remains and only 3 wounded survivors and they asked, where are the telephone poles? Where are the air conditioners? where are the walls? Where is the yards and trees? cars? All gone. It was the sudden realization that the bodies were ground up and contained in the debris and spread aloft in the muddy fields surrounding the former neighborhood. Truly a horrific storm.


43 posted on 03/30/2023 10:04:43 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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