Tornado, Jasper
- When
- January 29, 2:30 PM CST to 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, Magnolia Spgs to 11 mi of Magnolia Spgs
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.620, -94.170
Tornado in Texas, January 29, 1999
The same tornado that hit Tyler County moved into Jasper County, damaging several homes, but staying in rural areas.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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.
The same tornado that hit Tyler County moved into Jasper County, damaging several homes, but staying in rural areas.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:32 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
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Avalanche in Oregon, January 29, 1999
- Avalanche in Utah, January 29, 1999
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Tornado in Texas, January 29, 1999
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Louisiana, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Heavy Rain in Washington, January 29, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Arkansas, January 29 to 30, 1999
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, January 29, 1999
More
Every storm in Texas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1999Warnings 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: 5684461.