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F3 tornado in Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Tornado April 23, 2000 · Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Rating

32.5 mi

Whole path

500 yd

Path width

Injuries

$7.3M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Caddo Parish → Bossier Parish; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Numerous trees and power lines toppled. Several homes suffered minor to moderate structural damage in the Breckenridge subdivision just souwest of Shreveport. Portable storage building businesses were destroyed and two mobile homes were demolished. This tornado moved from Caddo Parish into southern Bossier Parish.

Began near Greenwood (32.4333, -94.0500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5139988. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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