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EF1 tornado in Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Tornado November 5, 2024 · Acadia Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

5.0 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

The tornado continued north from Vermilion Parish across Bayou Queue de Tortue into Acadia Parish. The tornado formed convergent patterns over a sugarcane field. It continued northeast and dissipated between Toups Road and Highway 35. The maximum estimated wind speed was 105 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front and short wave. Two tornadoes occurred.

Began near Rayne Hains Airstrip (30.1473, -92.2800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Acadia Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1224882. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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