Tornado, Lamar
- When
- September 20, 5:40 PM CST to 5:43 PM CST
- Where
- Lamar County, Deport
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 35 yd
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Coordinates
- 33.520, -95.320
Tornado in Texas, September 20, 1996
A brief tornado lifted the roof off a mobile home, damaged homes and snapped trees and power poles.
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
- $75,000
- 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 FWD wrote it up.
A brief tornado lifted the roof off a mobile home, damaged homes and snapped trees and power poles.
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 182 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:37 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
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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: 5564165.