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EF0 tornado in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Tornado February 14, 2026 · Rapides Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

The tornado damaged and uprooted pine trees. Large branches of 1-3 inches in diameter were snapped. Max estimated winds were 80 mph.

The wider storm

A strong shortwave moved across Louisiana creating a line of thunderstorms that produced severe weather across the area. A total of 13 tornadoes occurred along this line of storms.

Began near Union Hill (30.9910, -92.7480).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Allen Parish EF1 Acadia Parish EF1 Calcasieu Parish EF1 Evangeline Parish EF1 St. Landry Parish EF1 Evangeline Parish EF0 Avoyelles Parish EF0 Calcasieu Parish EF0 Rapides Parish EFU Vernon Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1320275. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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