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EF0 tornado in Vernon Parish, Louisiana

Tornado December 25, 2012 · Vernon Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 NWS storm survey team confirmed an EF 0 tornado touched down three miles east of the town of Pitkin. The tornado produced a damage path two miles long and 200 yards wide. The tornado snapped 20 to 40 pine trees along the path. A mobile home had a tree fall on it causing minor damage and a barn had a few sheets of roofing tin removed.

The wider storm

A warm front lifted out of the Gulf of Mexico early Christmas morning with mostly small hail in storms along the boundary, however one storm did become severe. A strong cold front pushed out of Texas and across Louisiana during late Christmas morning into the afternoon with Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes. Strong northwest winds behind the boundary created low tides along the coast.

Began near Pitkin (30.9320, -92.8960).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Rapides Parish EF2 Rapides Parish EF0 Vernon Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 421948. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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