Tornado, Cameron
- When
- April 2, 5:30 PM CST to 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cameron County, 7 mi W of Hackberry
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.000, -93.483
Tornado in Louisiana, April 2, 2000
A weak tornado developed in Sabine Wildlife Refuge, and dissipated just before it reached the town of Hackberry. No property damage was reported, since it remained in the marshes.
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
- None recorded
- 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 weak tornado developed in Sabine Wildlife Refuge, and dissipated just before it reached the town of Hackberry. No property damage was reported, since it remained in the marshes. There were numerous public sightings of this tornado.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 29 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:27 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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- Hail in Alabama, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 2, 2000
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 2000Warnings in Louisiana, April 2000
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: 5140562.