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EF0 tornado in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 17, 2020 · Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

Pictures and video of a tornado were received from Calcasieu Parish PD. The tornado remained in wooded areas.

The wider storm

A slow moving upper level low moved out of Texas and across Louisiana. Multiple tornadoes occurred when the disturbance passed.

Began near De Quincy (30.4314, -93.4241).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Acadia Parish 1 dead EF1 Allen Parish EF0 Cameron Parish EF0 Evangeline Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 895548. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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