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EF2 tornado in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Tornado January 11, 2020 · St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

EF2

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

Injuries

$250K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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

An EF-2 tornado touched down north of Krotz Springs where it flipped and and destroyed a mobile home. The tornado continued along its path tipping another mobile home on its roof and destroying 2 others by flying debris and knocking them off their blocks. The tornado continued on producing minor roof damage to 6 other homes and damaging farm equipment. Four people received minor injuries in a mobile home. The max estimated wind speed was 115 mph.

The wider storm

An upper level disturbance and cold front moved across the region which resulted in an QLCS with embedded severe storms.

Began near Krotz Spgs (30.5922, -91.7641).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 872331. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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