Tornado, Vermilion
- When
- September 12, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Vermilion County, Perry
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 29.950, -92.170
Tornado in Louisiana, September 12, 1998
A small tornado touched down near Perry, resulting in minor damage to some homes.
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
- $20,000
- 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 touched down near Perry, resulting in minor damage to some homes.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:58 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
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- Heavy Rain in Louisiana, September 12, 1998
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- Flood in Puerto Rico, September 12, 1998
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More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1998Warnings in Louisiana, September 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5667901.