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Tornado in Madison Parish, Louisiana

Tornado November 26, 2019 · Madison Parish, Louisiana

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Not rated

1.0 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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado initiated east of LA Highway 577 and moved north northeast before lifting east of LA Highway 579. A visual confirmation of the tornado was reported; however due to the terrain being composed of flat farmland and the survey team being unable to find snapped or uprooted trees, have elected to designate this tornado as EF-U. Radar also detected lofted debris with this tornado.

The wider storm

Warm, moist air was in place across northeast Louisiana during the afternoon and evening of November 26th. As a strong cold front neared the region, supercell thunderstorms developed ahead of the front. These storms tapped into plenty of wind shear in place across the region and this resulted in a few tornadoes occurring across the region.

Began near Tendal (32.4565, -91.3847).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Franklin Parish 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 857863. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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