Tornado, Harris
- When
- January 27, 3:39 PM CST to 3:44 PM CST
- Where
- Harris County, Pasadena
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $12 million
- Coordinates
- 29.700, -95.200
Tornado in Texas, January 27, 1997
5 mi long/30 yd wide) touched down in Pasadena. It destroyed a temporary school building, damagaged apartment roofs, destroyed a stormage facility, severly damaged an office building and parked cars, caused minor roof damage to a Dairy Queen and moderate structural damage to a church.
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
- $12 million
- 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 HGX wrote it up.
A F1 tornado (1.5 mi long/30 yd wide) touched down in Pasadena. It destroyed a temporary school building, damagaged apartment roofs, destroyed a stormage facility, severly damaged an office building and parked cars, caused minor roof damage to a Dairy Queen and moderate structural damage to a church. Damage was set at $12 million and no injuries were reported.
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:36 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
- Cold in New Mexico, January 27, 1997
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 27 to 28, 1997
- Winter Storm in Missouri, January 27, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, January 27 to 28, 1997
- Winter Storm in Indiana, January 27, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 27, 1997
- Winter Storm in New York, January 27 to 28, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Missouri, January 27, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, January 27, 1997
- Cold in Nebraska, January 27, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, January 27, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, January 27, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, 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: 5594989.