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EF0 tornado in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 15, 2008 · Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down just east of the Ambassador Caffery and Kaliste Saloom intersection, and moved through the Beaullieu Place and River Ranch subdivisions. Scattered trees were blown down and some shingles were blown off several homes.

The wider storm

As a cold front approached, a squall line developed. Additional storms sprung up in front of the squall line, and where storms merged, a few tornadoes touched down. Along the squall line, winds of 60 mph blew down trees and caused minor damage to homes.

Began near Pitette (30.1600, -92.0500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Vermilion Parish EF1 Beauregard Parish EF1 Lafayette Parish EF1 St. Martin Parish EF0 Beauregard Parish EF0 Vermilion Parish EF0 Vermilion Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 107656. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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