Tornado, Tyler
- When
- May 10, 6:50 AM CST to 6:55 AM CST
- Where
- Tyler County, Woodville to 5 mi NE of Woodville
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.820, -94.370
Tornado in Texas, May 10, 1999
A small tornado on the leading edge of a squall line moved rapidly northeast at 50 mph, blowing down trees for over four miles along US Highway 190. The trees were at least two to three foot in diameter.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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.
A small tornado on the leading edge of a squall line moved rapidly northeast at 50 mph, blowing down trees for over four miles along US Highway 190. The trees were at least two to three foot in diameter. Newspaper clippings showed a doctor's office sign that was found four miles east of Woodville. The doctor's office was one mile west of Woodville. Two homes received significant damage when trees fell on them.Over twenty homes received minor damage.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:57 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.
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More
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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: 5697493.