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EF1 tornado in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

Tornado February 12, 2008 · Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

EF1
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
1
Death
$25K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 weak tornado initially touched down near a hospital turning an unoccupied mobile home on its side, peeling off a portion of the roof of a nearby building, and moving several automobiles and breaking out their windows. One fatality occurred when a 51 year old woman was thrown into a vehicle in a parking lot of the hospital. The tornado continued eastward for about a mile producing intermittent damage primarily to trees.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed across southeast Louisiana in advance of a strong upper level disturbance and an assoicated cold front.

Began near Independence (30.6155, -90.5000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Plaquemines ParishEF0 St. Helena ParishEF0 St. Charles Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 84000. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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