EF0 tornado in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 29, 2011 · St. Charles Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through St. John the Baptist Parish → St. Charles Parish; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 weak EF0 tornado touched down with estimated winds of 65 mph. Tree limb damage was observed and a vehicle had its camper top torn off.

The wider storm

Upper level disturbances moving over a very warm and unstable airmass produced numerous reports of severe weather, as well as isolated flash flooding.

Began near Gypsy (30.0217, -90.4943).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 St. Bernard Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 282218. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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