Tornado, Evangeline
- When
- April 2, 5:25 PM CST to 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Evangeline County, 1 mi SW of Mamou
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 30.617, -92.433
Tornado in Louisiana, April 2, 2000
A small tornado formed ahead of a "bow-echo" thunderstorm complex near Mamou, destroying one mobile home and doing minor damage to five other homes. No one was injured.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LCH wrote it up.
A small tornado formed ahead of a "bow-echo" thunderstorm complex near Mamou, destroying one mobile home and doing minor damage to five other homes. No one was injured. The woman living in the mobile home had left for church a few minutes earlier. Eyewitnesses saw the tornado move southeast across a field before it struck the mobile home. Another mobile home just 25 feet away was undamaged. Wind speeds were estimated to be 100 mph. Hail the size of marbles was also reported with this tornado.
The radar
The Ft Polk radar (KPOE), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, April 2, 2000
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- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, April 2 to 3, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 2, 2000
- Hail in Alabama, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 2, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 2, 2000
- Hail in Texas, April 2, 2000
More
Every storm in Louisiana in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Louisiana, 2000Warnings in Louisiana, April 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5140567.