Tornado, Acadia
- When
- November 10, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Acadia County, 1 mi E of Morse
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.130, -92.480
Tornado in Louisiana, November 10, 1998
damaging the roof of one home and knocking another home of its pilings. One mobile home and at least three barns lost some metal from the structure, and several trees were blown down.
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
- $50,000
- 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 F0 tornado travelled on the ground for less than a quarter of a mile...damaging the roof of one home and knocking another home of its pilings. One mobile home and at least three barns lost some metal from the structure, and several trees were blown down.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:44 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
- High Wind in Wisconsin, November 10 to 11, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, November 10, 1998
- High Wind in Kentucky, November 10, 1998
- High Wind in Iowa, November 10, 1998
- High Wind in Wisconsin, November 10, 1998
- High Wind in Wisconsin, November 10, 1998
- Tornado and High Wind in Michigan, November 10 to 11, 1998
- High Wind in Michigan, November 10 to 11, 1998
- High Wind in Iowa, November 10, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, November 10, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, November 10, 1998
- High Wind in Michigan, November 10 to 11, 1998
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1998Warnings in Louisiana, November 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: 5677366.