Tornado, Val Verde
- When
- June 8, 8:54 PM CST to 8:55 PM CST
- Where
- Val Verde County, Langtry
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 29.820, -101.570
A small F0 tornado was sighted by a train engineer near Langtry.
Tornado in Texas, June 8, 1997
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 139 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:54 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
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 8 to 9, 1997
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- Strong Wind in Wisconsin, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 8 to 9, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 8, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Texas, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Wyoming, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 8, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Texas, June 8, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, June 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: 5607900.