EF1 tornado in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Tornado June 24, 2020 · East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

$50K

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 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 National Weather Service Damage Assessment Team has surveyed the storm damage in Greenwell Springs, LA. It has been determined the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Damage estimates were consistent with winds of 90 mph.

This tornado touched near Yatasi Ave., snapping and uprooting trees. Trees landed and damaged 2 cars. It then progressed in a northeast direction where it damaged the carport and fascia of some nearby houses. It then lifted just before Greenwell Springs-Port Hudson Rd.

The wider storm

Two mesoscale cycloncic vortex systems (MCVs) produced several severe thunderstorms across the area from early morning through the mid afternoon hours of Wednesday June 24, 2020. There were several tornadoes reported with these severe thunderstorms as they moved across the area. The most significant tornadoes impacted the Baton Rouge area, the Salem area of Walthall County, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Began near Indian Mound (30.6017, -91.0050).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 East Baton Rouge Parish EF0 West Baton Rouge Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 899291. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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