EF0 tornado in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

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

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

A National Weather Service Damage Assessment Team has surveyed the storm damage near Erwinville, LA. It has been determined the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Damage estimates were consistent with winds of 85 mph.

The tornado touched down just west of Bueche Rd, tearing some siding of of a house. In addition, the roof of a garage building was damaged from trees. It also uprooted trees and snapped tree limbs as it progressed in an eastward direction. It lifted on Bueche Rd. just short o Clause Bayou. It is possible that the tornado started and ended before and after the stated locations, but these areas were inaccessible or were surrounded by fields.

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 Arbroth (30.6004, -91.3524).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 East Baton Rouge Parish EF1 East Baton Rouge Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 899296. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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