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EF1 tornado in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Tornado December 13, 2020 · St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

106 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 106 yards (0.06 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 tornado moved across mostly open rice fields, however it did damage a few trees along a hedgerow.

The wider storm

A cold front moved through the region slowly. Instability was low across the area during the event, however just enough was present to allow a few severe weather events.

Began near Marrow (30.8218, -92.1309).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 934735. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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