Tornado, Cass
- When
- October 21, 2:26 PM CST to 2:58 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County, Linden to 14 mi W of Atlanta
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 22 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Property damage
- $35,000
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -94.500
Tornado in Texas, October 21, 1996
A tornado skipped across central and east central Cass County. The tornado first touched down near FM250 and south of HWY 77 or 14 miles northwest of Linden where a stop sign was blown about 200 yds and several large oak trees with trunks to 10 feet in diameter were dragged eastward 20 feet.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $35,000
- 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 SHV wrote it up.
A tornado skipped across central and east central Cass County. The tornado first touched down near FM250 and south of HWY 77 or 14 miles northwest of Linden where a stop sign was blown about 200 yds and several large oak trees with trunks to 10 feet in diameter were dragged eastward 20 feet. A large farm tractor was tossed upside down into a pond and a lawn mower was reported missing. The tornado lifted and traveled eastward as a funnel until the west side of Atlanta where the windows of a restaurant imploded inward and the roof was lifted off the building for a brief period before falling into its original position leaving minor damage. Two blocks southeast, another restaurant had its roof blown completely off. The tornado lifted again just before entering the city of Atlanta.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:25 UTC.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood in Massachusetts, October 21, 1996
- Wildfire in California, October 21, 1996
- Flash Flood in Maine, October 21 to 22, 1996
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, October 21 to 22, 1996
- Hail in Texas, October 21, 1996
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- Hail in Texas, October 21, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, October 21, 1996
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5574924.