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EF0 tornado in Livingston Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 26, 2009 · Livingston Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$3K
Damage as recorded
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 National Weather Service storm survey indicated that a weak tornado briefly touched down just west of Kilian along Miller Road. Numerous trees were uprooted, a trailer was overturned, and a barn received minor damage.

The wider storm

Several episodes of widespread severe weather and heavy rainfall occurred from March 26th through the 28th as a series of strong upper air disturbances impacted the central gulf region as a meandering and nearly stationary frontal boundary drifted back and forth across the area.

Began near Killian (30.3700, -90.6639).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 160955. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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