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EF1 tornado in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

Tornado March 21, 2012 · Vermilion Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$75K

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 on the east side of Abbeville, where is destroyed a well built 2 car garage and one portable building. Several trees and telephone poles were snapped.

The wider storm

A cold front slowly moved into Southeast Texas and then into far west sections of Louisiana during the 20th. The cold front stalled upon entering Louisiana and then slowly moved back west through the evening before finally moving east in the morning of the 21st. The slow moving boundary produced severe weather and widespread flooding.

Began near Grosse Isle (29.9477, -92.0917).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Vermilion Parish EF1 Jefferson Davis Parish EF0 St. Mary Parish EF0 Vermilion Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 366424. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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