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EF0 tornado in Cameron Parish, Louisiana

Tornado October 22, 2009 · Cameron Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
10 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

Cameron Parish Sheriff Office reported a tornado southwest of Grand Chenier. Radar indicated the tornado was likely a waterspout that moved onshore. No damage was reported.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms developed along a cold front and moved eastward across southwest Louisiana during the late morning and afternoon hours. Ahead of the line, numerous supercells developed across the northern Gulf of Mexico and moved northward across the area. Two of the supercells spawned a total of 6 tornadoes, while several reports of damaging winds were received with the line of storms. All of these storms combined to produce widespread heavy rainfall and flash flooding across the entire area.

Began near Grand Chenier (29.7605, -93.0051).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jefferson Davis ParishEF1 Jefferson Davis ParishEF0 Jefferson Davis ParishEF0 Allen ParishEF0 Allen Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 200039. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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