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EF0 tornado in Concordia Parish, Louisiana

Tornado October 27, 2021 · Concordia Parish, Louisiana

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief and weak EF-0 tornado moved along Hwy 15 where several large limbs were snapped in addition to trees uprooted. A Tornado Debris Signature (TDS) was noted from the Fort Polk (KPOE) radar. The beginning point of this tornado is uncertain due to road

accessibility issues.

The wider storm

A cold front moved through the region during the afternoon hours of October 27th. Ahead of this front, showers and thunderstorms developed mainly along and south of the I-20 corridor. A tornado occurred in far southern Concordia Parish.

Began near Ashridge (31.0120, -91.6317).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 987386. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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