Welcome to the closing May edition of the Lost Media Files and in this subject, I will cover one of the most infamous Tornadoes with a haunting image that has plagued people and questioned where it came from: this is the Jarrell, Texas Tornado.
On May 27th of 1997 in the city of Jarrell Texas which is northeast of Waco and north of San Antonio the area of central Texas alone would witness one of the most devastating Tornadoes in the state’s history while it is one of few that would be deadly this one would plague the minds of Texans until today. How this Tornado formed was a surprise to many scientists. The winds were surprisingly weak but even the weakest it didn’t mean it was packing a punch. The atmosphere alone was primed for a serious storm and winds from the Gulf of Mexico would even add into the intensifying winds.
At around 12:30 PM a cold front overlapped Waco, Texas while another would over take and merge with a dry line and then a tornado one of 20 would emerge and while this storm is on the level of more powerful storms as to that of Joplin, Missouri in 2011 this storm produced a 7.6 mile long and 0.75 mile wide as this tornado would head southwest as at first was extra long and snake like before churning into a more powerful storm and throughout the afternoon would become a devastating F5 Tornado with the death toll climbing up to 27 and 12 people injured and the damage was so devastating it left not a trace of anything even human or animal remains which is terrifying to think about a storm on this scale.
Now let’s talk about where this photo came from. Where did this infamous photo appear or who took it? We don’t know. Now I’d end it off there but there is some evidence on this one with countless tornado videos that is online including one from a documentary that aired on TLC. It freezes on a walking set of legs of Tornado and in true native American legends that if this tornado appears, your dead. Now there are countless forum posts that explained where did this come from but one led to a interesting discovery it led to a TIME magazine article dating back to June 9th of 1997 in a article of the very photo and the person who took the photograph a man named Scott Beckwith that was submitted to publish.
Now footage of this Tornado is close to nothing which is interesting because there is countless Tornado footages on this date online like Angel Escobales Jr. a channel that was taking the time piecing together the information of videos as this was the perfect time to capture videos. Now these Dead Man Walking Tornadoes you’d be shocked to hear that it is more common then you think: like the Joplin Tornado of 2011 or the El Rino Tornado that I covered years ago about the tragedy of the Twistex Tornado or the infamous Xenia Tornado. In the future I do plan on covering the more fascinating Tornados so while this case is technically closed the footage is something that should be seen.
So that covers this edition of the Lost Media Files, its June and you know what that means as a staple tradition: video games. AT least this will stick around unlike E3. So top 15 cancelled and lost video games next week.
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