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EF0 tornado in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

Tornado February 23, 2016 · St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 tornadic waterspout spawned from the same parent supercell as the Assumption/St. James and Akers tornadoes moved onshore from Lake Pontchartrain south of Madisonville near the end of Hwy 1077. It destroyed a metal boat shed and caused minor fascia damage to a bar. Maximum wind speeds were estimated near 65 mph.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved through the lower Mississippi Valley. Ahead of the front, widespread severe weather moved through Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi during the morning and afternoon hours of February 23rd. A total of 13 tornadoes occurred in Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi, 3 of which were classified as strong.

Began near Houltonville (30.3779, -90.1613).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 St. James Parish 2 deadEF2 Livingston ParishEF2 St. John the Baptist ParishEF1 St. John the Baptist ParishEF0 Jefferson ParishEF0 Ascension ParishEF0 St. Helena ParishEF0 St. Tammany ParishEF0 Iberville ParishEF0 Iberville Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 617687. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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