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EF0 tornado in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

Tornado February 24, 2013 · Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

1.9 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$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

A weak tornado touched down in the Mathews area and moved north on an intermittent path to near the intersection of US Highway 90 and Louisiana Highway 308. A few house canopies were damaged along with roof and fascia damage to a few structures. Fencing was knocked down at the high school and a HVAC unit was blown off a small building. Several power lines and power poles were knocked down on US Highway 90. Path length approximately 2 miles, and width 25 yards. EF0 rating with maximum wind 85 mph.

The wider storm

A stationary front was situated over southeast Louisiana during the 24th and 25th. Several waves of low pressure moved along the front, producing several rounds of severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. Unusually large hail for Gulf Coast Region accompanied the severe thunderstorms across coastal areas of southeast Louisiana on the evening of February 24.

Began near Clotilda (29.6835, -90.5645).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Terrebonne Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 429927. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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