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EF0 tornado in Iberville Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 12, 2017 · Iberville Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
4.6 mi
Path length
80 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 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

An EF-0 tornado with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph touched down in the White Castle community near Gleason Street. Large tree limbs were snapped, a small tree trunk was snapped and minor roof damage occurred. The tornado continued over open rural fields and crossed LA Hwy 1 where it caused minor tree damage evident on high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado evidently lifted after crossing into Ascension Parish as corroborated by the weakening tornado vortex signatures on KLIX radar data.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms ahead of a cold front moving through Louisiana produced many reports of severe weather during the morning and afternoon hours of the 12th.

Began near White Castle (30.1644, -91.1490).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 East Baton Rouge ParishEF0 Jefferson ParishEF0 St. Tammany ParishEF0 St. Charles Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 699474. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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