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EF1 tornado in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 8, 2020 · Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado briefly touched down in Mamou, blowing down some trees and damaging a few homes and businesses. One business had the roof removed. The max estimated wind speed was 100 mph.

The wider storm

A cold front moved into Louisiana and stalled on the 5th causing a round of severe weather. A second front moved in during the 8th causing another round.

Began near Mamou (30.6317, -92.4207).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Beauregard Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 895036. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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