Tornado, Rapides
- When
- April 14, 7:40 PM CST to 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Rapides County, Boyce
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Coordinates
- 31.380, -92.680
Tornado in Louisiana, April 14, 1996
A small barn had the roof blown off. No one was injured.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
A small tornado knocked a mobile home off its blocks on Phillips Road in Boyce.A small barn had the roof blown off. No one was injured.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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 in Arkansas, April 14, 1996
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 14, 1996
- Tornado in Alabama, April 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 14 to 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Alabama, April 14 to 15, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, April 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 14, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, April 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 14, 1996
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1996Warnings in Louisiana, April 1996
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5543570.