Tornado in Texas, January 22, 1999

Name: Tornado in Texas, January 22, 1999
Start: 1999-01-22T17:10
End: 1999-01-22T17:11
Location: Texas

January 22, 1999 · 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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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $40,000
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.

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 124 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:09 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Bowie

When: January 22, 5:10 PM CST to 5:11 PM CST
Where: Bowie County, New Boston
Rating: F1
Path length: 0.3 mi
Path width: 25 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 33.450, -94.420

A tornado touched down near the 700 block of Anderson St. and traveled northeast across Texas Hwy 8 then onto I-30 and lifted. Damage: The Bostonian Motor Inn, EZ-Mart convenience store, construction site of a new Ford Dealership and one house. All damage was minor. A piece of sheet metal 22 x 27 feet was ripped from the roof of the Bostonian Inn and thrown into a car. A window was shattered, ceiling tile damaged, and store merchandise damaged at the E-Z Mart. Scaffolding at the Ford Dealership toppled onto a pickup truck breaking the front window and crushing the hood. A construction trailer was set upside down in its original spot. Numerous eye witness and photographed by the New Boston Citizen Tribune.

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 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Texas, 1999 Warnings in Texas, 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: 5681855.