EF0 tornado — Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

EF0 tornado in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

Tornado August 29, 2017 · Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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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

Pictures were sent in of a tornado that briefly touched down in a field near Ridge.

The wider storm

Harvey moved across the Gulf of Mexico into the central Texas Coast during the last week of August. After the initial landfall, the cyclone moved back into the gulf a couple days later and then made another landfall in Southwest Louisiana during the morning of the 30th. The first rains from the system moved across the region during the afternoon of the 25th and finally ended during the morning of September 1. One to 5 feet of rain fell across Southeast Texas during the week which in some cases was slightly more than a normal yearly rainfall total. Widespread flooding occurred and a new rainfall record was set regarding the total for a tropical cyclone in the United States.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 720005. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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