Tornado, Jefferson Davis
- When
- April 3, 4:45 AM CST to 4:50 AM CST
- Where
- Jefferson Davis County, 5 mi SW of Hathaway
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.300, -92.733
Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 2000
A small tornado touched down southwest of Hathaway, destroying one mobile home and damaging at least twenty other homes and barns. Some vehicles were damaged from flying debris.
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
- $250,000
- 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 touched down southwest of Hathaway, destroying one mobile home and damaging at least twenty other homes and barns. Some vehicles were damaged from flying debris. A car wash under construction lost its tin roof and two brick walls.
The radar
The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:46 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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- Tornado in Texas, April 3, 2000
- Tornado in Alabama, April 3, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Florida, April 3, 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: 5141918.