HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — When storms swept through the Katy area Wednesday morning, Cody Jarrell was front row and center, but it was not by choice.
Jarrell was sleeping in his car after leaving a bar when a brief tornado swept by.
"It was very traumatizing," Jarrell said. "Scary. Sounded like a train was going on by."
When he woke up from the loud rain, he hunkered down in his backseat to take cover.
"About five minutes after that, all hell broke loose," he said. "Winds picked up. I actually felt my car lift up and sat down in the span of 5 or 10 seconds."
The National Weather Service confirmed a brief EF-1 tornado hit the Katy area with winds up to 90 miles per hour.
The Bourbon Street Sports Bar was just feet away from where the tornado hit.
"If this had happened an hour earlier and we still had people inside or people outside in the parking lot, very well could have been multiple injuries," an employee said. "You know, it's not a lot of material inside the bar, but there are tables right next to those windows that got blown out."
It's a relief nobody got hurt, including Jarrell who said he was lucky to be parked where he was.
"If I was 100 feet this way, it would be a whole different story," Jarrell said.
The Harris County Fire Marshal's Office assessed the damages to the buildings in the area to make sure they were safe before people reentered. Nearby neighborhoods also experienced some damage.