EF1 tornado in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

Tornado January 5, 2025 · West Carroll Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

This brief EF1 tornado touched down on Abernathy Road where it mainly snapped trees. It shifted a mobile home on Myers Road, with no injuries. Mostly trees were snapped and minor roof damage occurred as it continued northeast. The tornado continued through Cook Road before it lifted shortly after. Its maximum wind speed was 100mph.

The wider storm

A potent weather system moved across the region on January 5th and produced a round of severe storms across the region into the early morning hours of the 6th. These storms produced damaging winds and tornadoes.

Began near Fiske (32.9122, -91.4734).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Union Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1235365. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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