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EF0 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Tornado July 10, 2023 · Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 touched down near the intersection of River and Clyde Herbert Roads and produced minor damage to a home and two outbuildings. The max estimated wind was 75 mph.

The wider storm

A slow moving thunderstorm produced flooding and a landspout near Lebleu Settlement.

Began near Hecker (30.3022, -93.0859).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1119964. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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