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EF2 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 13, 2024 · Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

EF2

Rating

9.9 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$400K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Calcasieu Parish → Calcasieu Parish; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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-2 tornado touched down north of Orphan Village Road in Sulphur, then tracked southeast damaging homes and businesses. On East Napoleon St. two warehouses were destroyed by the tornado. On N Cities Service HWY a gas station awning was damaged along with a strip mall. In the Maplewood community several houses were damaged with trees uprooted or snapped and parts of roofs blown off. The last reported damage was on Bayou Dinde Pass where several trees were snapped. Along the path trees and power lines were also downed. Max estimated winds were 120 mph winds.

The wider storm

Multiple upper disturbances moved across the region from the 12th through the 16th causing a rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms which produced numerous reports of damage, flooding, and high winds.

Began near Lockmoor (30.2540, -93.3475).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 St. Martin Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1184462. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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