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Tornado in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 13, 2024 · St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

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Not rated

23.9 mi

Whole path

1 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1 yards (0.00 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Damage path of apparent tornado based on NDVI differencing in high resolution satellite imagery. The maximum width and strength of the tornado in the Atchafalaya Basin is unknown. The tornado only affected trees.

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 Atchafalaya (30.3200, -91.7100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Calcasieu Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1186706. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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