Tornado in Louisiana, May 22, 1997

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.

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 36 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:50 UTC.

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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.

• Tornado in Florida, May 22, 1997$150,000 · F1 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Florida, May 22, 1997$250,000 · 1 event
• Hail in Florida, May 22, 1997$100,000 · 2 in hail · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Florida, May 22, 1997$60,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Florida, May 22, 1997$25,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Florida, May 22, 1997$15,000 · 1 event
• Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, May 22, 1997F0 · 7 events
• Cold in West Virginia, May 22, 19976 events
• Damaging Wind in Florida, May 22, 1997$12,000 · 1 event
• Hail in Texas, May 22, 19970.88 in hail · 3 events
• Cold in Virginia, May 22, 19972 events
• Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Wyoming, May 22 to 31, 199757 kt wind · 2 events

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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: 5598051.