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EF0 tornado in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

Tornado October 6, 2025 · Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
2.8 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A brief EF-0 touched down just north of Highway 445 on Bailey Loop Rd in Loranger, LA at 4:57am CDT where it broke off patches of large branches. This tornado continued due northward into forested areas of Loranger before making it to Bradford Ln at 5:04am. Here, more patches of small and large branches were broken before the tornado lifted along Highway 40 still at 5:04am.

The wider storm

A small mid-level impulse moving through a moist and weakly forced environment supported the development of several mini tropical-like supercells across southeast Louisiana during the late evening of October 5th into the early morning hours of October 6th. These storms produced several tornadoes, including an EF-0 tornado over marshland near Blind River in Livingston Parish and multiple tornadoes across Tangipahoa Parish, where the strongest reached EF-1 intensity and caused tree damage and localized roof damage. Some tornado tracks were verified using high-resolution satellite imagery in areas with limited ground access, and weak but coherent tornado debris signatures were observed on radar. Later in the morning, convection moved across Lake Pontchartrain where a waterspout was observed and confirmed just east of the Causeway Bridge using photographic and drone footage.

Began near Robert (30.5700, -90.3400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1297793. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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