Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- January 24, 6:05 AM CST to 6:15 AM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Jean Lafite to 1 mi of Crown Pt
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $160,000
- Coordinates
- 29.730, -90.130
Tornado in Louisiana, January 24, 1997
A tornado touched down several times along an intermittant patch. Five mobile homes were damaged, two sustained major damage and were pushed off their foundation and three had minor damage to porches and roofs.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $160,000
- 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 LIX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down several times along an intermittant patch. Five mobile homes were damaged, two sustained major damage and were pushed off their foundation and three had minor damage to porches and roofs. One house's roof was damaged and three others had damage to porches, gutters or siding. A portion of the Jean Lafitte Auditorium's metal roof was ripped off at a cost of $100,000 to repair.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Louisiana in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1997Warnings in Louisiana, January 1997
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: 5588096.