Quail TX, Tornado

Photo Courtesy of NSSL

Quail TX, 16 May 1977, looking N. This tornado -- here shown in its final "rope" stage -- produced F3 damage earlier in the town of Quail, where it destroyed a school, cafeteria, homemaking cottage, three houses, two school buses and eight other vehicles. The tornado dangles from the extreme southwest edge of a cyclic (multiple mesocyclone-producing) supercell which would next spawn a very large tornado near Shamrock TX.