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EF1 tornado in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

Tornado January 24, 2023 · Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

EF1
Rating
3.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$60K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A brief tornado touched down near Holley Street and moved quickly northeast. A RV that was not tied down was flipped here along with minor fence damage. Farther northeast, a large piece of roof was removed from a house along with a barn shifted and damaged. A house to the north also had minor damage. Around this, debris was thrown in all directions as well as evidence on the ground of debris digging in and being dragged. This path was extended through the support of high resolution satellite imagery NDVI differencing which provided evidence of damage to vegetation on a path cutting through the marsh before concluding after the tornado crossed Highway 90.

The wider storm

A strong upper level trough ejected over the Southern Plains which caused rapid surface cyclogenesis to occur in southeast Texas. This surface low traversed across central and northern Louisiana. The rapid development of the surface low gave way to very high shear values, and with enough instability, a line of thunderstorms formed along its cold front. A couple of brief tornadoes occurred with the line in Pointe Coupee and Terrebonne Parishes. The Pointe Coupee Parish tornado resulted in 3 injuries. Otherwise, damaging wind gusts were noted with the line due to the extreme shear. The line exited southeast Louisiana in the early morning hours of the 25th.

Began near Houma (29.6677, -90.7027).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1077276. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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