Tornado, Evangeline
- When
- February 26, 9:08 AM CST
- Where
- Evangeline County, St Landry
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 30.830, -92.270
Tornado in Louisiana, February 26, 1998
An F1 tornado touched down in Chicot State Park, and moved northeast across the Park towards St. Landry.
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
- $1.0 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 LCH wrote it up.
An F1 tornado touched down in Chicot State Park, and moved northeast across the Park towards St. Landry. A park ranger's residence was damaged, and three vehicles had trees fall on them. At least one hundred trees were downed in the park, which was closed for nearly a week to cleanup the debris.In St. Landry it severely damaged a CLECO power plant, and damaged up to 150 homes and businesses in town.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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.
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More
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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: 5634102.