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EF0 tornado in Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 5, 2011 · Acadia Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

Injuries

$50K

Damage as recorded

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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

NWS Storm Survey confirmed an EF0 Tornado struck along Interstate 10 in Crowley. A Waffle House restaurant suffered minor damage to the roof, signage, and windows, with 3 injuries from broken glass. A nearby storage building at a car wash collapsed, and several other buildings in the area suffered minor roof damage. A few trees and tree limbs were also blown down.

The wider storm

Numerous showers and elevated thunderstorms developed across southeast Texas during the early morning hours on March 5, then spread eastward across southern Louisiana through the remainder of the morning. Some of these thunderstorms eventually became surface-based supercells, with one supercell producing four tornadoes across Jefferson Davis and Acadia Parishes.

Began near Crowley (30.2344, -92.4003).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Acadia Parish 1 dead EF0 Jefferson Davis Parish EF0 Jefferson Davis Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 292180. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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