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EF0 tornado in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Tornado April 14, 2018 · St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

A weak tornado briefly touched down near the Plantation Hotel, uplifting a large section of the roof and breaking multiple room windows. The tornado continued southeast across US 90 into the marsh and dissipated. The max estimated wind speed was 80 MPH.

The wider storm

A cold front pushed through Louisiana with severe weather occurring along the boundary. A few tornadoes were also spawned by the line of thunderstorms.

Began near La Gorda (29.6816, -91.2742).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lafayette Parish EF1 St. Landry Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 749111. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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