EF1 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

A tornado occurred along the leading edge of a QLCS and started just south of Chenault Airport and traveled southwest to west for between 8 and 9 miles. The tornado crossed Highway 14 near Carlo Henry, Common Street near Murbelle, and ended south of Gauthier near Elliot Road. Multiple mobile homes were damaged in the Sugarloaf neighborhood and several power poles were downed or snapped along Highway 14. Many trees were downed or had large limbs broken along Carlo Henry, Murbelle, Arabie, and Beaugh Roads. Portions of roofs were damaged or removed along Murbelle with one home being shifted one to two feet from its foundation. As the tornado traveled farther west and beyond Leger Road it weakened. The vast majority of the damage consisted of occasional downed power lines and superficial tree damage with an occasional uprooted tree west of Leger Road.

A microburst affects one location and then lines of severe storms affect Southwest Louisiana two days in a row during late July. A pair of hot and humid days both gave way to lines of thunderstorms late in the day. The storms produced many reports of down trees, down power lines, and a pair of tornadoes.