Tornado Reports
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| 20:59Z | EF0 | KPAH | IL | Pulaski | Pulaski | A couple of large but decayed trees were blown down. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph. |
| 21:48Z | EF2 | KGRK | TX | Brazos | Harvey | The tornado caused significant damage to one residential home and four warehouse and commercial buildings. Damage to the warehouse and commercial buildings was EF-2 with surrounding EF-0 to EF-1 damage. One injury occurred to a male in one of the warehouses. |
| 04:13Z | EF2 | KSHV | TX | San Augustine | San Augustine Arpt | An EF-2 tornado with maximum estimated winds of 130 mph first touched down along County Road 1277 where it uprooted and snapped numerous trees as it paralleled the road. It then widened and moved across Cedar Road where extensive tree damage led to structural damage to 54 structures in a neighborhood. As it continued, it ripped the awning off of a gas station and snapped the electrical transmission tower of a sub-station near the intersection of Highway 96 and Highway 21. A laundromat and several additional structures saw extensive damage as the tornado moved across the northern side of Downtown San Augustine. After tearing through the northern part of the city, it continued to uproot and snap trees nearby along County Road 353 before lifting just prior to the Shelby County line. ||Initial assessments found that around 150 homes and about 10 businesses were damaged from this tornado across San Augustine County. |
| 04:42Z | EF1 | KSHV | TX | Shelby | Ragtown | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds around 105 mph touched down just west of Toledo Bend Reservoir in Eastern Shelby County Texas near Forest Service Road 126 and continued northeast crossing County Road 2789 and County Road 3184 just north of Forest Service Road 126A. The tornado continued east along Forest Service Road 126 before crossing Forest Service Road 132, and eventually over Toledo Bend Reservoir into Northwest Sabine Parish Louisiana. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path across the Sabine National Forest before crossing Toledo Bend Reservoir. |
| 04:51Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | Sabine | Toledo Bend Res Nort | This is a continuation of the Shelby County EF-1 tornado that touched down just west of Toledo Bend Reservoir shortly before midnight on April 24th. This tornado moved across Toledo Bend Reservoir as a waterspout, and back onshore in Northwest Sabine Parish as a tornado, where it crossed Highway 191 just south of Highway 174 before turning more easterly crossing Golden Road, snapping and uprooting numerous trees along its path. The tornado tracked through the town of Converse where several trees were snapped and uprooted before crossing Highway 171 and Highway 174, and led to additional tree damage on Harrison Road, Cooper Lane, and Bolivar Road before moving into Southeast Desoto Parish. The maximum estimated winds from this tornado as it moved throughout Northwest Sabine Parish was 105 mph.||Approximately five homes reported major damage, while fifteen other homes suffered minor damage from the tornado. A church also suffered damage from this tornado as well. |
| 04:51Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | Caddo | Mooringsport | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds around 105 mph touched down just south of Dixie-Mooringsport Road (Highway 169), where it ripped through roof off of a small outbuilding and damaged a fence. The tornado then crossed Highway 169 where it snapped and uprooted around 10 trees and downed power lines before crossing the highway where its path was observed being the widest at about 100 yards. The tornado then went on to partially damage a roof of a single family home, ripping off shingles, and uprooting and snapping 10-20 more trees along Sundown Drive before lifting near Sunset Lane as it approached the southern shore of Caddo Lake.||In all, four homes were damaged from this tornado near Mooringsport. |
| 05:11Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | De Soto | Pelican | This is a continuation of the Northwest Sabine Parish tornado. This EF-1 tornado began to weaken as it entered Southeast Desoto Parish, with maximum estimated winds around 95 mph. It snapped and uprooted several trees near the Pelican community, where a tree fell on a vehicle on Highway 175 just south of the Highway 483 intersection, resulting in an injury to the female driver in the vehicle. The tornado continued its northeast movement to Highway 177 north of Parish Road 507 snapping and uprooting several more trees before finally lifting. In all, this long track tornado from Eastern Shelby County Texas through Northwest Sabine and Southeast Desoto Parishes in Northwest Louisiana remained on the ground for 32.1 miles before finally lifting. |
| 06:12Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | Bienville | Lucky | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 110 mph touched down on Brooks Loop in the Lucky community where it snapped large branches before crossing Highway 4. The tornado continued northeast across Highway 9 where it broke power poles and snapped/uprooted approximately 20 trees before lifting. |
| 06:25Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | Bienville | Walsh | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds around 105 mph briefly touched down as it crossed Highway 508 and Raspberry Road near the Walsh community. The most significant damage was where it snapped multiple power poles and snapped/uprooted 20-30 trees on Highway 508. |
| 06:47Z | EF3 | KSHV | LA | Lincoln | Barnet Spgs | An EF-3 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 145 mph touched down just northeast of the intersection of Highway 80 and Highway 818 where several trees were uprooted. It continued northeast, crossing South Maple Street where the tornado intensified, resulting in widespread tree damage just south of Highway 3012 along Wade Drive, Lind Drive, Robert Street, University Boulevard, and Shelor Drive. Many of these streets were impassable due to the significant number of trees snapped, twisted, and uprooted. Many more trees were downed on Highway 3012 before the tornado tracked northeast towards Westwood Drive. It uprooted a number of trees onto fraternity houses before it crossed the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The tornado crossed the railroad and bent or uprooted several large light poles on Louisiana Tech's softball, baseball, and neighboring athletic fields. It snapped a number of power poles as well. The tornado crossed Tech Drive and damaged a number of dormitories where it removed their metal roofs and blew out windows. It continued northeast where it uprooted more trees on Louisiana Tech's and Ruston High School's campuses. The estimated winds as the tornado tore through the western and northern sections of Louisiana Tech University ranged from 115-130 mph. The tornado crossed Greenwood Cemetery where it intensified again, resulting in a large number of trees being debarked with just the stubs of the large branches remaining in several areas. It continued with several business sustaining significant damage to their exterior brick walls and some interior walls. A hotel along Interstate 20 suffered the collapse of its top story's exterior walls. The tornado continued on to severely damage a gas station between Trenton and Vienna Streets just south of I-20, before crossing the interstate and weakened slightly but still resulted in considerable roof damage to several businesses along North Service Road East. The tornado then began to weaken, with more sporadic wind damage noted as it moved northeast towards Farmerville Highway. It crossed Farmerville Highway near Timberline Court uprooting a number of trees and continued northeast towards Haddox Road. The tornado then lifted and touched back down a few more times with the intermittent damage noted for the rest of its path. It uprooted a few more trees along Stable and Baxter Roads, destroyed a chicken house along Highway 820, before finally lifting just south of Oak Tree Road. The tornado resulted in two fatalities when a tree fell through their home, killing a 35 year old female and her 14 year old son just south of Interstate 20 in Ruston.||The Louisiana State Fire Marshal concluded that 22 buildings were destroyed by the tornado, 154 buildings sustained major damage, with 254 buildings receiving minor damage in the city of Ruston. The Louisiana Tech University campus had 16 buildings that could not be occupied, with the softball, baseball, and soccer fields, as well as 2 dormitories, suffering major damage. In all, approximately 1220 structures were affected by this tornado throughout Lincoln Parish.||Entergy Power Company concluded that 35 power poles were broken throughout the city of Ruston, with numerous spans of power lines also downed. Given the extensive damage throughout the city of Ruston, mandatory curfews were enforced by the Ruston Police Department, Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Department, and the Louisiana State Police. |
| 07:10Z | EF1 | KSHV | LA | Union | Bayou D Arbonne Lake | An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 110 mph first touched down in the Holmesville community, where it damaged a chicken house near the intersection of Highway 15 and Holmesville Road. It then crossed Highway 15 and uprooted trees along its path to Lake D'Arbonne. Before it crossed the lake, it uprooted several trees which fell on a home that sustained major structural damage from the fallen trees. After crossing Lake D-Arbonne, the tornado snapped and uprooted trees along McCormick Road and Fourway Loop Road. It then crossed Highway 2, with more intermittent damage noted with large limbs broken and trees uprooted until it reached Love Road. There, a more consistent damage path was found where trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado continued to down trees and tore off shingles on the roof of a building as it crossed Highway 143 in the Linville community. The tornado then moved on to uproot and snap trees along Alabama Landing Road and Dean Haile Road before finally lifting just short of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge.||Four homes suffered major damage from this tornado, with twelve homes sustaining minor damage. In all, some form of residential damage occurred at approximately over one-hundred homes throughout Union Parish. Thirty-one businesses also suffered major damage. Numerous reports of major damage were also received to chicken farming areas across the southeast sections of Union Parish as a result of this tornado. Structural damage was sustained to several poultry houses, with the entire roofs removed. |
| 07:44Z | EF2 | KLZK | LA | Morehouse | Duty | This tornado began at the marshy backwaters southeast of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge. It shifted northeast to the intersection of Martin Trail and North Lake Road where it snapped several large softwood tree limbs and uprooted several softwood trees. It continued northeast to the intersection of Indian Mound Road and Tram Road where it continued to snap softwood trees and begun to uprooted hardwood trees. It moved east northeast to White Arkansas Road, persistently snapping and uprooting large softwood and hardwood trees. As it progressed northeast to Oscar Lum Road, the tornado mowed down a large area of hardwood and softwood trees, where it likely blocked off a nearby bridge. It then propagated northeast to the intersection of Middlebrooks Road and Oscar Lum Road snapping large softwood limbs and uprooting several softwood and hardwood trees. The uprooting and snapping of both hardwood and softwood trees continued when it moved across US Highway 143 to across the Arkansas State line where the aforementioned highway becomes US Highway 133. It also snapped and uprooted hardwood and softwood trees within an Arkansas rural residential area consisting of the Roads of Ashley 203, Ashley 201, Ashley 2, Ashley 228 and Ashley 714. It crossed the intersection of Ashley 4 Road and the railroad tracks west of Highway 425, continuing its snapping and uprooting of softwood and hardwood trees. It then went north northeast snapping and uprooting softwood and hardwood trees along Highway 425, and lifted at the intersection of Highway 425 and Highway 82, but not before uprooting and snapping a few hardwood and softwood trees. Maximum winds were 112 mph. Total path length was 16.24 miles. |
| 07:49Z | EF1 | KLZK | AR | Ashley | White | This tornado began at the marshy backwaters southeast of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge. It shifted northeast to the intersection of Martin Trail and North Lake Road where it snapped several large softwood tree limbs and uprooted several softwood trees. It continued northeast to the intersection of Indian Mound Road and Tram Road where it continued to snap softwood trees and begun to uprooted hardwood trees. It moved east northeast to White Arkansas Road, persistently snapping and uprooting large softwood and hardwood trees. As it progressed northeast to Oscar Lum Road, the tornado mowed down a large area of hardwood and softwood trees, where it likely blocked off a nearby bridge. It then propagated northeast to the intersection of Middlebrooks Road and Oscar Lum Road snapping large softwood limbs and uprooting several softwood and hardwood trees. The uprooting and snapping of both hardwood and softwood trees continued when it moved across US Highway 143 to across the Arkansas State line where the aforementioned highway becomes US Highway 133. It also snapped and uprooted hardwood and softwood trees within an Arkansas rural residential area consisting of the Roads of Ashley 203, Ashley 201, Ashley 2, Ashley 228 and Ashley 714. It crossed the intersection of Ashley 4 Road and the railroad tracks west of Highway 425, continuing its snapping and uprooting of softwood and hardwood trees. It then went north northeast snapping and uprooting softwood and hardwood trees along Highway 425, and lifted at the intersection of Highway 425 and Highway 82, but not before uprooting and snapping a few hardwood and softwood trees. Maximum winds were 112 mph. Total path length was 16.24 miles. |
| 07:59Z | EF0 | KPOE | LA | La Salle | Eden | An EF-2 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 125 mph touched down near the intersection of June Lane and Searcy Eden Road, where it uprooted and snapped some trees and then proceeded northeast. The tornado paralleled Searcy Eden Road to LA Highway 500, where it uprooted and snapped several trees along its path. Just before reaching LA Highway 500, the tornado strengthened to its strongest where it tore off the right half of the roof of a well-constructed home and completely destroyed its carport. The tornado weakened slightly as it crossed LA Highway 500 where it uprooted and snapped numerous trees, some of which fell on a number of mobile homes. The tornado continued northeast where it crossed Highway 84 uprooting several more trees. It then weakened further while it paralleled Zimmer Creek Road and Parish Road 285. Additional tree damage was noted across these areas, but was more widely scattered in nature. The tornado crossed LA Highway 127 just south of the community of Summerville where it uprooted a few more trees, including one that fell onto the Summerville Baptist Church before it lifted just south of LA Highway 503 east of Summerville. The church steeple was also blown off. ||One home was destroyed by the tornado and seven homes suffered minor damage. In addition, four mobile homes were destroyed and three mobile homes suffered minor damage. |
| 09:56Z | EF1 | KPOE | LA | Beauregard | Sugartown | A tornado touched down on south side of Highway 112,|and lifted along Highway 399 near the Whiskey Chitto. Numerous |trees were blown down or snapped with a few trees uprooted. One |home had a portion of roof flashing stripped. Maximum estimated winds were 104 MPH. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).