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 ...

Its 18,000 cattle made it nearly 10 times larger than the average dairy herd in Texas. It's not the first time large numbers of Texas cattle have died, but rarely do so many perish from a single fire.

When Sean Pennington, a 56-year-old cattle farmer based near Canadian, Texas, first saw the flames approaching his ranch, his first concern wasn’t his home – it was his animals.

Many cattle in a pasture close to the subdivision were found dead 1/4 mile away. A Bizzare Path Most tornadoes move in some kind of east or northeast direction , but the Jarrell tornado was opposite.

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 ...

The barn outside Dimmitt, Texas, stood at 2 million square feet. Across this indoor city, thousands of cows lowed. Then the smoke started to rise.

Many cattle in a pasture close to the subdivision were found dead 1/4 mile away. A Bizzare Path Most tornadoes move in some kind of east or northeast direction , but the Jarrell tornado was opposite.