Tornado, Victoria
- When
- October 22, 11:01 AM CST to 11:06 AM CST
- Where
- Victoria County, 3 mi W of Victoria
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 0.1 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 28.800, -97.033
Tornado in Texas, October 22, 2000
Victoria Police reported a funnel cloud at 12pm CDT near Farm to Market 236, then reported a tornado touchdown one minute later. Tornado tracked through a wooded area.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 CRP wrote it up.
Victoria Police reported a funnel cloud at 12pm CDT near Farm to Market 236, then reported a tornado touchdown one minute later. Tornado tracked through a wooded area. A NWS Storm Survey Team reported tree limbs were seen in the air, and several trees were knocked down. No other damage or injuries were reported.
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 122 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:00 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, October 22 to 23, 2000
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, October 22 to 23, 2000
- Flood in Arizona, October 22 to 23, 2000
- High Wind in California, October 22, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 22, 2000
- Flood in Arizona, October 22 to 23, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Texas, October 22, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Texas, October 22, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, October 22, 2000
- Flood in Texas, October 22, 2000
- High Surf in Hawaii, October 22 to 24, 2000
- Dense Fog in Indiana, October 22, 2000
More
Every storm in Texas in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 2000Warnings in Texas, October 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: 5159820.