True, I've lived through enough tornadoes to know how they are but then come the exceptions to the rules. The storm that blew an entire subdivision off the map in Jerrel, Texas and killed 30 people comes to mind. It happened over Memorial Day weekend, 1997. The F-5 was so powerful it actually removed the pavement from the roadway and stripped the hides off of cows.
That day we were watching the Indy 500 on our local NBC affiliate out of Waco which is where the storms developed. They could actually see the tornadoes from the studio and watched as several went tracking by over open country. The storms moved south down I-35 and hit Jerrel and later did damage in Austin.
Speaking of Jarrell... people who had a
trailer there rushed for shelter in the neighbor's brick house. The house was demolished and the trailer was spared.