Tornado, Tyler
- When
- May 25, 4:35 PM CST to 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Tyler County, Town Bluff to 2 mi NE of Town Bluff
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.820, -94.180
Tornadoes in Texas, May 25, 1999
A small tornado in Tyler County moved over a campground on the west side of Steinhagen Lake, downing hundreds of trees and damaging several camps. The tornado moved southeast over the lake, and entered Jasper County.
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
- $125,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 in Tyler County moved over a campground on the west side of Steinhagen Lake, downing hundreds of trees and damaging several camps. The tornado moved southeast over the lake, and entered Jasper County. On the Jasper County side of the lake, a state park was hit by a tornado for the second time in a little over two weeks, downing hundreds of trees and damaging several camps. Eyewitnesses saw the waterspout move onshore. The most significant damage occurred after the tornado passed through the park, when it damaged a large power pole near the dam on the southeast side of Steinhagen lake.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:33 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- May 25, 4:40 PM CST to 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, Jasper to 12 mi SW of Jasper
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 30.800, -94.150
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
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- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in New York, May 25, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, May 25 to 26, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, May 25, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in New Mexico, May 25, 1999
- Hail in New Mexico, May 25, 1999
- Heavy Snow and Heavy Rain in Alaska, May 25, 1999
- Flooding in Montana, May 25 to 28, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, May 25 to 30, 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: 5698039, 5698040.