Tornado, Iberia
- When
- January 2, 4:57 AM CST to 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Iberia County, New Iberia to 4 mi SE of New Iberia
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $1.5 million
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.030, -91.870
Tornado in Louisiana, January 2, 1999
A tornado moved across sections of New Iberia, damaging three schools and at least 20 other homes and businesses. One mobile home was flipped over and two other homes were completely destroyed when a large oak tree crashed through them.
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
- $1.5 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.
A tornado moved across sections of New Iberia, damaging three schools and at least 20 other homes and businesses. One mobile home was flipped over and two other homes were completely destroyed when a large oak tree crashed through them.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:57 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
- Winter Storm in Ohio, January 2, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, January 2, 1999
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 2 to 3, 1999
- Avalanche in Utah, January 2, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, January 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, January 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, January 2, 1999
- Ice Storm in South Carolina, January 2 to 3, 1999
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, January 2 to 3, 1999
- Winter Storm in Pennsylvania, January 2, 1999
- Tornado in Florida, January 2, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, January 2, 1999
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1999Warnings in Louisiana, January 1999
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: 5684333.