Twenty years ago Saturday, a massive tornado struck Jarrell, killing 27 of the 400 people who lived there. Meteorologists rated it as an F5, the top of the Fujita scale, with winds at 261 mph – nearly four times the speed at which winds are considered hurricane strength.

Today there is little visual evidence of the tornado’s wrath. But that doesn’t mean the destruction and loss of life has been forgotten. "There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about it," one survivor said.

But the sense of loss is so great among Jarrell residents, opinions vary about how to commemorate May 27, 1997.

Read more about what is is being done, and what is not being done, to mark the anniversary of one of the most destructive days in Central Texas history.