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EF1 tornado in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

Tornado April 10, 2021 · St. Landry Parish, Louisiana

EF1

Rating

3.6 mi

Path length

187 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 187 yards (0.11 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 team doing research with NSSL found damage with this tornado. Most of the damage was tree damage west of HWY 71 and crossing HWY 71. It did destroy a barn before the damage path was lost near HWY 361.

The wider storm

A cold front and associated short wave pushed across Louisiana early in the morning producing showers and storms. A pair of tornadoes occurred along with an isolated hail report.

Began near Garland (30.7272, -92.0320).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 St. Landry Parish 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 954643. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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