Tornado, Schleicher
- When
- February 20, 3:00 AM CST to 3:20 AM CST
- Where
- Schleicher County, El Dorado Muni Arpt to Eldorado
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $800,000
- Coordinates
- 30.850, -100.620
Tornado in Texas, February 20, 1997
A tornado that was embedded in very heavy rains destroyed four hangars and overturned an airplane at the Eldorado airport. The tornadic winds also toppled a grain silo on a farm ten miles north of Eldorado.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $800,000
- 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 SJT wrote it up.
A tornado that was embedded in very heavy rains destroyed four hangars and overturned an airplane at the Eldorado airport. The tornadic winds also toppled a grain silo on a farm ten miles north of Eldorado.
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:00 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
- Flood in Texas, February 20 to 21, 1997
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 20, 1997
- Flooding in Illinois, February 20 to 22, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, February 20, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, February 20, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Illinois, February 20 to 24, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, February 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, February 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, February 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, February 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, February 20, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, February 20, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, February 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: 5590126.