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EF1 tornado in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Tornado April 2, 2017 · St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

Deaths

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down in a field off of Zin Zin Road, and caused a single

wide mobile home to roll over. The walls and roof separated from the frame. A 38 year old

woman and a 3 year old girl died in the mobile home. Maximum winds were estimated at 110 MPH.

The wider storm

A cold front and upper trough pushed through the region with severe storms ahead of the system. The very soupy air mass also produced high amounts of rainfall that lead to flooding.

Began near Patin (30.2676, -91.8532).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Rapides Parish EF1 Rapides Parish EF1 Rapides Parish EF1 Lafayette Parish EF0 Rapides Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 694736. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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