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EF0 tornado in Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Tornado August 18, 2022 · Cameron Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A landspout developed over the marsh north of Johnsons Bayou. The tornado slowly moved through Cameron Meadows Oil Field.

The wider storm

An isolated thunderstorm developed in Cameron Parish producing a landspout while another storm developed in New Iberia causing wind damage.

Began near Johnson Bayou (29.8100, -93.6600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1053324. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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