A small, rope tornado rapidly turned into a monster F5 in Jarrell, Texas, on May 27, 1997, hitting an area called Double Creek especially hard. All of the twister's 27 deaths occurred in that ...

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 ...