Tornado in Texas, January 11, 1998

Name: Tornado in Texas, January 11, 1998
Start: 1998-01-11T16:04
End: 1998-01-11T16:22
Location: Texas

January 11, 1998 · NWS SHV · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 123 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:04 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Titus

When: January 11, 4:04 PM CST to 4:22 PM CST
Where: Titus County, Mt Pleasant to 8 mi SE of Mt Pleasant
Rating: F1
Path length: 5.5 mi
Path width: 25 yd
Coordinates: 33.070, -94.930

HP Supercell developed along a slow moving northeast-southwest orientated cold front. This supercell made a gradual transition into a squall line with a line-echo wave pattern on doppler radar. A family of 6 weak tornadoes were produced across 2 states and 5 counties. Damage consisted of numerous snapped and fallen limbs. Several dozen small trees were also flattened. The damage path was in a wooded region away from any population with no structures present. Without a survey the tornado would have been unreported.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Texas in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Texas, 1998 Warnings in Texas, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5627663.