Tornado, Jeff Davis
- When
- August 26, 5:28 PM CST to 5:31 PM CST
- Where
- Jeff Davis County, 9 mi SW of Ft Davis
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.480, -103.980
Tornado in Texas, August 26, 1996
A small tornado formed in a thunderstorm in an unusually tropical air mass for the Davis Mountains. A photo taken by the Fort Davis Postmaster showed a condensation funnel to the ground and a clear slot wrapping into the small mesocyclone.
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
- None recorded
- 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 MAF wrote it up.
A small tornado formed in a thunderstorm in an unusually tropical air mass for the Davis Mountains. A photo taken by the Fort Davis Postmaster showed a condensation funnel to the ground and a clear slot wrapping into the small mesocyclone.
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
- Damaging Wind in Idaho, August 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, August 26 to 27, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, August 26, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, August 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 26, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, August 26 to 27, 1996
- Hail in South Carolina, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Vermont, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Texas, August 26, 1996
- Hail in Vermont, August 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Texas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1996Warnings in Texas, August 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5576491.