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EF1 tornado in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Tornado January 6, 2021 · St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 touched down near the intersection of Nursery Highway and Grand Bois Road. A storage building was destroyed and several homes received damage to awnings or roofs. Some of the debris was found up in the power lines. Further down the road a few trees fell down, and a single wide mobile home was flipped over and destroyed. Fortunately no one was home at the time. The maximum estimated wind speed was 110 mph.

The wider storm

A cold front moved through Louisiana spawning a couple isolated severe thunderstorms and one tornado.

Began near Parks (30.2401, -91.8108).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 938322. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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