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EF1 tornado in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Tornado December 28, 2024 · Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

15.4 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Evangeline Parish → St. Landry 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 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

Tornado started in the St. Landry community where it damaged and snapped some hardwood trees. It moved across Interstate 49 and into Saint Landry Parish. The maximum wind speed was estimated at 95 mph.

The wider storm

A series of short waves moved across the region during late December causing multiple rounds of severe weather and flooding. One long lived tornado formed southeast of Houston and moved across deep southeast Texas before crossing into Louisiana.

Began near St Landry (30.8460, -92.2572).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Vernon Parish EF1 Rapides Parish EF1 Rapides Parish EF1 Beauregard Parish EF1 Vernon Parish EF1 Vernon Parish EF1 Vernon Parish EF0 Vernon Parish EFU Cameron Parish EFU Cameron Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1226853. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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