Tornado, Hardin
- When
- May 10, 6:55 AM CST to 6:58 AM CST
- Where
- Hardin County, Silsbee to 1 mi NE of Silsbee
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.350, -94.170
Tornado in Texas, May 10, 1999
Another small tornado on the leading edge of a rapidly moving squall line produced a short-lived tornado near Silsbee. Along US Highway 96 and FM 416, trees were blown down.
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
- $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.
Another small tornado on the leading edge of a rapidly moving squall line produced a short-lived tornado near Silsbee. Along US Highway 96 and FM 416, trees were blown down. Some landed on homes, damaging roofs. Eyewitnesses saw flying debris and cars lifted in the air. Newspaper reports showed cars overturned.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 95 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.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 10, 1999
More
Every storm in Texas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1999Warnings in Texas, May 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: 5697494.