EF0 tornado in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 19, 2016 · Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Based on an eyewitness report, a large oak tree was twisted at the trunk. A 14 inch diameter pecan tree was twisted and toppled. Damage was confined to about one city block near the Mississippi River on E. St. Peters Street. Time estimated by radar. Damage was consistent with an EF-0 gustnado along the leading edge of a squall line with winds estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

Low pressure moving along a cold front draped over southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi developed a squall line of thunderstorms that moved through the area late on the night of the 19th into the early morning hours of the 20th. A second line of thunderstorms moved through the coastal waters hours during the morning of the 20th.

Began near Cedar Grove (29.7823, -90.0259).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 636726. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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