Tornado, Evangeline
- When
- January 12, 3:00 AM CST to 3:05 AM CST
- Where
- Evangeline County, Easton
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Coordinates
- 30.750, -92.420
Tornado in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
A tornado touched down in Easton, damaging several homes and cars. One mobile home was completely destroyed by the tornado, another home had a tree crash through it, and a third mobile home was moved off its blocks.
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
- $150,000
- 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 tornado touched down in Easton, damaging several homes and cars. One mobile home was completely destroyed by the tornado, another home had a tree crash through it, and a third mobile home was moved off its blocks. A garage was also completely demolished, as well as two cars inside of it.
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.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Weather in Kansas, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Tornado in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Cold in Maine, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Winter Storm in Missouri, January 12, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 12, 1998
- Heavy Rain in California, January 12, 1998
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1998Warnings in Louisiana, January 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: 5628978.