Tornado, Comanche
- When
- September 14, 9:35 PM CST to 9:38 PM CST
- Where
- Comanche County, 2 mi N of De Leon
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 32.150, -98.550
Tornado in Texas, September 14, 1996
A tornado damaged a dairy farm, blew out windows and uprooted trees. A mobile home was flipped and many other homes were 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- 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 FWD wrote it up.
A tornado damaged a dairy farm, blew out windows and uprooted trees. A mobile home was flipped and many other homes were damaged.
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:51 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Frost and Freeze in Iowa, September 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Utah, September 14, 1996
- Flood in Kansas, September 14 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, September 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, September 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, September 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, September 14 to 15, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, September 14 to 15, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, September 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, September 14, 1996
- Flash Flood in Texas, September 14, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, September 14, 1996
More
Every storm in Texas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1996Warnings in Texas, September 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: 5563953.