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EF1 tornado in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Tornado April 2, 2017 · Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 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 security video from a car body shop caught a small but intense tornado. The tornado only removed 2 pieces of tin from the shop roof, however it lifted a car off the ground, spun the vehicle around, and then set it down. The tornado dissipated on Ashy Road. Estimated winds were 100 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 Pitette (30.1641, -92.0189).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Rapides Parish EF1 St. Martin Parish 2 dead EF1 Rapides Parish EF1 Rapides Parish EF0 Rapides Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 695092. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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