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EF1 tornado in Acadia Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 11, 2012 · Acadia Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$80K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down near the Jeff Davis - Acadia Parish line, a few miles north of I-10. The most significant damage occurred near the intersection of Riverside and Simeo Roads, where several hardwood trees were uprooted, several pine trees were snapped, and one home received minor roof damage. An open air barn had one wall blown out, and an unsecured storage building was flipped and destroyed.

The wider storm

A weak frontal boundary entered Louisiana on the 11th and slowly moved into deep south central Louisiana during the early morning hours of the 12th. The boundary very slowly lifted back north by sunrise on the 12th and then thunderstorms kept back-building over Acadiana through late morning to around noon. High water levels took multiple days to recede.

Began near Evangeline (30.2700, -92.6200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 366416. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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