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.
