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EF1 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 5, 2020 · Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

13.6 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$300K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Beauregard Parish → Calcasieu Parish; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The tornado originated in Beauregard Parish and continued into Calcasieu and caused damage to trees and a few houses along Topsy Road. Max estimated winds were 105 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 Gillis (30.4029, -93.1441).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Evangeline Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 895045. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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