Tornado, Burleson
- When
- September 20, 6:47 PM CST to 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Burleson County, Chriesman
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 30.600, -96.770
Tornadoes in Texas, September 20, 1996
Sheriff reported a tornado near Caid Lake. Many public reports of multiple tornados on the gound in the general vicinity.
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
- $1.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 HGX wrote it up.
Sheriff reported a tornado near Caid Lake. Many public reports of multiple tornados on the gound in the general vicinity. This tornadic thunderstorm continued moving through Burleson County. Damage surveys show tornadoes breifly touched down along portions of Highway 36 through the county. Trees were down along portions of the highway where the tornado touched down. Caldwell reported trees down, damage to storage sheds, and damage to a barn that had a metal roof torn off of it. The town of Somerville had damage to a truckstop, trees down, and damage to tin barns.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Burleson
- When
- September 20, 6:50 PM CST to 6:56 PM CST
- Where
- Burleson County, Chriesman to 2 mi of Caldwell
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 30.570, -96.770
Tornado, Burleson
- When
- September 20, 6:56 PM CST to 7:19 PM CST
- Where
- Burleson County, Caldwell to Somerville
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 30.530, -96.680
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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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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5566116, 5566117, 5566118.