EF1 tornado in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana

The tornado touched down in an inaccessible wooded area west of the Ouachita River. The tornado traveled east into an open field off of Hooter Road West, where it entered a wooded area. Numerous trees and branches were snapped, before it weakened as it moved over a home along Hooter Road East. A metal awning on the backside of the home was torn off and deposited in the front yard of the home, as well as a large open field between the home and a levee along the Ouachita River. Some shingles were also removed from the home. Tree tops along the levee were also snapped, as the tornado traveled northeast and lifted along Highway 165 in the Boscoe community. Maximum winds are estimated around 90 mph, with a maximum width of 100 yards.

A potent...upper level short wave accompanied a prefrontal feature during the afternoon hours of November 29th across north central Louisiana. These thunderstorms developed in a weakly unstable airmass across the region. However...there was strong wind shear present...especially in the lowest 3 kilometers of the atmosphere. A broken line of thunderstorms developed across east central Texas into northwest Louisiana along the prefrontal trough axis. These thunderstorms quickly became supercells. One of these storms produced a significant tornado in Winn Parish which traveled northeast and dropped again in southern Ouachita Parish. Other storms downed powerlines in northwest Louisiana and minor flooding problems.