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EF0 tornado in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Tornado December 14, 2022 · Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
1.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 tornado touched down around 3:02 PM CST on Bayou Dularge Rd, rolling an RV trailer and downing some fences. It continued to the northeast and crossed the Bayou Dularge bridge causing minor damage to the Chet Morrison Contractors buildings. There, at 3:03 PM CST, the tornado took all of the roofing panel off of an entrance shed as well as peeled some of the siding and roof off of a large metal warehouse. The tornado also snapped small tree branches before continuing its path to the northeast across the Intercoastal Waterway and Houma Canal and into the east side of Houma. At 3:05 PM CST, the tornado ended its path shortly after entering the east side of Houma as it peeled off roofing panels off a home on Cleveland St when the front porch came off of the house. The tornado also produced some siding damage and minor tree damage on Cleveland St before lifting as it approached Laban Avenue. Peak wind speed was estimated at 85 mph.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance and surface low produced several supercell thunderstorms with embedded tornadoes across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi during the late afternoon and evening hours of Wednesday December 14, 2022. These supercell thunderstorms produced straight line wind damage and a several tornadoes in the area. Two EF-2 tornados impacted portions of the New Orleans metro area in St. Charles Parish, and in Jefferson, Orleans, and St. Bernard Parishes.

6 tornadoes have been confirmed from this event. These tornadoes have been determined to range in strength from EF0 to EF2 after NWS storm surveys were conducted. The St. Charles tornado resulted in 8 injuries and 1 fatality.

Began near Mulberry (29.5651, -90.7226).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1071407. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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