Tornado, Caddo
- When
- January 23, 2:38 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Caddo County, Shreveport
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 30 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Coordinates
- 32.480, -93.750
Tornadoes in Louisiana, January 23, 1996
A tornado touched down in south Shreveport just east of the Lucian Airport, moved across the airport and continued northeast across the southeast section of the city. Several retirement homes and numerous housing subdivisions were severely damaged.
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
- 30
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SHV wrote it up.
A tornado touched down in south Shreveport just east of the Lucian Airport, moved across the airport and continued northeast across the southeast section of the city. Several retirement homes and numerous housing subdivisions were severely damaged. Thirty utility poles were destroyed leaving 10,000 customers without power. The tornado then moved across the Red River into southern Bossier City, Bossier Parish, knocked down trees and power lines and destroyed a couple of barns then dissipated.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 9 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:36 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Bossier
- When
- January 23, 3:00 PM CST to 3:06 PM CST
- Where
- Bossier County, Bossier City
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.520, -93.720
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.
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The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Ohio, January 23 to 30, 1996
- Flood in California, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Flooding in Kentucky, January 23 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in Idaho, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in California, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 23 to 24, 1996
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1996Warnings in Louisiana, January 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: 5538457, 5538458.