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EF0 tornado in Richland Parish, Louisiana

Tornado May 4, 2021 · Richland Parish, Louisiana

EF0
Rating
8.6 mi
Path length
700 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 700 yards (0.40 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

This brief tornado began west of LA Highway 133 and tracked east through the Alto community before ending just north of Archibald along US 425. Along the path several large limbs and a few small trees were snapped and multiple trees were uprooted. A tree fell on a mobile home, and a few other buildings sustained roof damage from falling limbs or trees. Maximum estimated winds were 85 miles per hour.

The wider storm

An outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred on May 4th. The main round of storms occurred during the afternoon in the form of an intense line of storms. Widespread wind damage occurred resulting in numerous downed trees, power lines and infrastructure damage. Two tornadoes also occurred within the line of storms.

Began near Alto (32.3547, -91.9170).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Madison Parish

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 959327. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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