1999 Loyal Valley tornado

1999 F4 tornado in Texas Needs a "meteorological synopsis" and an "aftermath" section January 2026 infobox 1/2 300 1999 Loyal Valley twister.jpg An obliterated house from the 1999 Loyal Valley tornado.jpg 1999 Loyal Valley tornado scar.png Clockwise from top: The tornado as it crossed the Llano River; A scar seen from satellite 2 months after the tornado; A house that was obliterated by the tornado. The car shown is where six people took shelter during the tornado. May 11, 1999, 5:05 p.m. CDT (UTC−05:00) 40 minutes May 11, 1999, 5:45 p.m. CDT (UTC−05:00) atl 207 to 260 mph km/h on F4 1((National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Climatic Data Center)) Greco Stephen Del Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena Storm Data 45 5 283 United States Department of Commerce English 0039-1972 6 $1 million (1999 USD) Mason County, Texas near Loyal Valley tornado outbreaks of 1999 During the afternoon hours of May 11, 1999, a violent and destructive multiple-vortex tornado struck areas around the community of Loyal Valley in Texas, killing one person. The tornado, rated a high-end F4 on the Fujita scale,May 11, 1999 Loyal Valley Tornado (Mason County) https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d29dcc647edb4aba89e6ad621e01502f National Weather Service San Angelo, Texas National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 5 September 2023 11 August 2023 caused extreme damage along its relatively short path. Meteorologist Bill Hecke of KNCT-FM stated the tornado's intensity rivaled the Bridge Creek–Moore F5 tornado, which had struck Oklahoma a week prior, and the 1997 Jarrell F5 tornado. Tornado summary thumb|left|A pickup truck destroyed by the tornado. This photograph was used as the cover of the May 1999 Storm Data publication from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The tornado touched down 9 mi km northwest of Loyal Valley near the Llano River. The National Weather Service (NWS) office in San Angelo noted that this was an extremely slow-moving tornado, which tracked approximately 7 mi km. Along the path, two homes were obliterated, with debris being scattered "great distances".National Climatic Data Center National Centers for Environmental Information Texas Event Report: F4 Tornado https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/storm-events-database/event-details/5700642 Storm Event Database National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 5 September 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230905231158/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/storm-events-database/event-details/5700642 5 September 2023 May 2013 live One home was completely swept away, with its foundation said to be gone. Parts of a pickup truck were found 0.75 mi km from the house. In another home, a person was killed and five others were injured after they took shelter in a car, which was located in a stone garage. As the tornado destroyed the house, the car was smashed, resulting in the casualties. At times, the tornado's width grew to 0.75 mi km wide. Sixteen other homes sustained damage, along with the complete destruction of several barns and outbuildings. As the tornado crossed Farm-to-Market Road 152, a 720 ft m stretch of asphalt was ripped off the road surface. In total, the tornado killed one person, injured six others, and caused $1 million (1999 USD) in damage as it traveled at an average forward speed of 10 mph km/h.Speed Distance Time Calculator https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/speed-distance-time-calculator.php?given_data=ds_dt_va&ds=7&ds_units=mile&va_units=mile+per+hour&dt=40&dt_units=minute&given_data_last=ds_dt_va&action=solve Calculator Soup 5 September 2023Texas A&M University College of Geosciences Severe Weather in Texas: 1999 https://climatexas.tamu.edu/products/severe-weather-summaries/1999-texas-severe-weather.html Texas A&M University 5 September 2023 A reporter said: "I hadn't seen anything like that. I couldn't believe what it did to animals. This was wiped clean, too, but the cattle – their hides had been ripped right off of them. Some of them were missing heads, and some were caught up and entwined in barbed wire." Meteorologist Bill Hecke believed the tornado was capable of devastation comparable to that suffered by Oklahoma City in the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado or damage from the 1997 Jarrell F5 Tornado.Richards Charles May 14, 1999 Oklahoma-size tornado hits unpopulated Hill Country Amarillo Globe-News Associated Press http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/05/14/tex_LO0722.001.shtml dead September 6, 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165045/http://amarillo.com/stories/1999/05/14/tex_LO0722.001.shtml#.VthranbP1qY March 3, 2016 Possible F5 intensity In 2023, the NWS office in San Angelo stated this was the strongest tornado ever recorded in their forecasting area and that "considerations were made for an F5 rating". However, the survey found that the structures impacted were not built well enough to ultimately warrant the F5 rating. See also List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes References 22em External links 1999-05-11 05-11 1999-05-11