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EF0 tornado in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Tornado November 20, 2023 · Rapides Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

2.8 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

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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 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 weak tornado touched down just west of Forest Road 212 and moved east southeast across Oden Lake producing minor tree damage. The damage ends just to the east of HWY 165. Maximum estimated winds were 75 mph.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved across the region during the late afternoon and evening. Multiple tornadoes occurred with the line of storms in Central Louisiana.

Began near Woodworth (31.1975, -92.5551).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Avoyelles Parish EF1 Avoyelles Parish EF1 Avoyelles Parish EF0 Vernon Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1148135. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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