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EF1 tornado in Madison Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Madison Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

6.6 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Madison Parish → Warren County, Mississippi; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado began near Thomastown Rd in eastern Madison Parish where a few trees were downed then continued across the Louisiana levee of the Mississippi River. To the east of the levee several trees were snapped along a tree line. As the tornado continued eastward, the path became inaccessible due to the Mississippi River and flooded areas on the Mississippi side between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. However, a TDS was noted continuing eastward into Mississippi. Estimated peak wind speed was 95mph. Total path length was 6.57 miles.

The wider storm

A strong storm system moved through the Lower Mississippi Valley during the day on Tuesday March 22nd. A resulting line of severe thunderstorms moved through northeast Louisiana during the morning hours producing a few instances of damaging wind, large hail along with a tornado.

Began near Thomastown (32.3980, -91.0500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1010513. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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