Tornado, Live Oak
- When
- September 20, 8:40 AM CST
- Where
- Live Oak County, 10 mi W of George West
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 28.330, -98.280
Tornado in Texas, September 20, 1996
Public report of a tornado in northwest Live Oak county 10 miles south of Choke Canyon Reservoir near Highway 72.
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 CRP wrote it up.
Public report of a tornado in northwest Live Oak county 10 miles south of Choke Canyon Reservoir near Highway 72.
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:42 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.
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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: 5563425.