Louisiana, 2019

Tornado in Louisiana, June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019 · NWS LCH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Scattered late morning storms developed over the region and one produced a landspout.

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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.

Scattered late morning storms developed over the region and one produced a landspout.

The radar

The Lake Charles radar (KLCH), 56 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:45 UTC.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Jefferson Davis

When
June 19, 10:45 AM CST
Where
Jefferson Davis County, 2.76 mi S of Hathaway
Rating
EF0
Path length
0.01 mi
Path width
10 yd
Reported by
Public
Coordinates
30.310, -92.670

Multiple pictures of a narrow landspout were received through social media. Reports indicated that the brief tornado occurred in a field south of Hathaway and no damage resulted.

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.

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 838777.