Tornado in Texas, July 29, 1999

Name: Tornado in Texas, July 29, 1999
Start: 1999-07-29T11:40
End: 1999-07-29T11:52
Location: Texas

July 29, 1999 · NWS MAF · 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: $10,000
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 Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 228 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:39 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Jeff Davis

When: July 29, 11:40 AM CST to 11:52 AM CST
Where: Jeff Davis County, Ft Davis to 6 mi W of Ft Davis
Rating: F1
Path length: 1.5 mi
Path width: 60 yd
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates: 30.580, -103.980

A landspout tornado formed on a developing thunderstorm in the Davis Mountains in the Limpia Crossing Subdivision west of Fort Davis. A similar landspout formed the previous day very near to this location. A hay barn was destroyed, utility lines were downed, and insulation was strewn a couple of miles away from its starting point. The debris from the hay barn was scattered in many directions.

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, 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5710849.