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EF0 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Tornado August 26, 2022 · Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.2 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 waterspout developed over Prien Lake and drifted to shore. The LCH ATC tower first reported the event.

The wider storm

A cold front moved into the region and stalled while a weakness aloft lingered over area. This provided multiple days of rain while soils were already saturated from previous events. Flash flooded resulted from the prolonged rain.

Began near Denge (30.1850, -93.2869).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1053337. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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