F1 tornado — Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

F1 tornado in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Tornado November 24, 2001 · Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

Rating

30.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$2.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Morehouse Parish → Ashley County, Arkansas; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

This tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Bastrop at 12:40 AM. It traveled northeast for a distance of 17 miles and exited the parish 6 miles north of Bonita at 12:58 AM into Ashley County, Arkansas. The maximum path width of the storm in Morehouse Parish was 200 yards. The tornado caused extensive damage to a sweet potato plant at the Kinnaird Farms on Old Bonita Road. The tornado also caused extensive damage to farm buildings, equipment (including an overturned trailer rig), and a house on another farm on Claud Mann Road. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5272440. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana

What the National Weather Service wrote

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