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EF0 tornado in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 17, 2020 · Evangeline Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

0.2 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

Multiple videos were received from social media of a tornado near Mamou. The brief tornado remain in swamp.

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 Mamou (30.6039, -92.3747).

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 Calcasieu Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 895550. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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