Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- August 15, 2:40 AM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 29.250, -90.000
Tornadoes in Louisiana, August 15, 1985
3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $275,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- August 15, 11:45 AM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 29.980, -93.370
Tornado, St. Bernard
- When
- August 15, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- St. Bernard County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Coordinates
- 29.870, -89.750
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
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 15, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 15, 1985
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 15, 1985
- Hail in South Dakota, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Florida, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, August 15, 1985
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 15, 1985
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: 10045354, 10045355, 10045356.