Tornado, Calcasieu
- When
- October 22, 9:15 AM CST
- Where
- Calcasieu County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Injuries
- 11 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 30.230, -93.370
Tornadoes in Louisiana, October 22, 1979
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 17
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- October 22, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 550 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 29.770, -93.480
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Arkansas, October 22, 1979
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 22, 1979
- Tornado in Iowa, October 22, 1979
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Illinois, October 22, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, October 22, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, October 22, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, October 22, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, October 22, 1979
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10033386, 10033387.