Tornado, East Baton Rouge
- When
- July 27, 3:56 PM CST
- Where
- East Baton Rouge County, 5 mi SE of Baton Rouge
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 30.420, -91.100
Tornado in Louisiana, July 27, 1999
A cooperative observer and trained spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown near the southeast city limits of Baton Rouge near Highland Road east of Interstate Highway 10. Several trees had limbs knocked down but otherwise no significant property damage was reported.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
A cooperative observer and trained spotter reported a brief tornado touchdown near the southeast city limits of Baton Rouge near Highland Road east of Interstate Highway 10. Several trees had limbs knocked down but otherwise no significant property damage was reported.
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
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 27, 1999
- Heat in Louisiana, July 27, 1999
- Marine High Wind in Tennessee, July 27, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 27, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, July 27, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 27, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, July 27, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 27, 1999
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Iowa, July 27, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, July 27, 1999
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Iowa, July 27 to 28, 1999
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 27, 1999
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 1999Warnings in Louisiana, July 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5708727.