Tornado, Acadia
- When
- December 29, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Acadia County, 1 mi E of Morse
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.130, -92.480
Tornado in Louisiana, December 29, 1998
A small tornado briefly touched down east of Morse on Highway 1115. Tin was lifted from the roof of a barn, and tossed in a nearby field.
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
- $5,000
- 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 LCH wrote it up.
A small tornado briefly touched down east of Morse on Highway 1115. Tin was lifted from the roof of a barn, and tossed in a nearby field. Fencing around a livestock field and an oak tree was also blown down. No injuries were reported.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:28 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
- Dense Fog in California, December 29, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Dense Fog in Florida, December 29, 1998
- Ice Storm in Montana, December 29 to 30, 1998
- High Wind in Wyoming, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New Hampshire, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 29, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Heavy Snow and Lake-Effect Snow in Michigan, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Winter Storm in Montana, December 29 to 30, 1998
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, December 29 to 30, 1998
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1998Warnings in Louisiana, December 1998
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5674055.