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EF2 tornado in Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Tornado December 16, 2019 · Rapides Parish, Louisiana

EF2
Rating
3.6 mi
Path length
147 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 147 yards (0.08 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

The tornado formed on the south end of a line of thunderstorms during the mid part of the morning. The tornado touched down just south of LA 462 near Simon Doyle Road where it downed trees and caused damage to one home. The tornado then moved North northeast to the middle section of Doshie Road where it it snapped trees and caused roof damage to several homes and barns. As the tornado moved further north up Doshie Road it strengthened to an EF2 intensity uprooting trees and taking off

the roof of the Perkins Feed Farm Building as well as damaging other nearby structures.

The wider storm

A cold front pushed across Louisiana with showers and storms ahead of the boundary. A couple storms produce tornadoes with one being long tracked.

Began near Union Hill (30.9273, -92.7934).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Vernon Parish 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 865427. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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