EF1 tornado, Vernon to Eros, Louisiana, March 30, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF1

Date

March 30, 2022

Touchdown

12:44 PM CDT (17:44 UTC)

Lifted

12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

4.2 miles (6.8 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$10,000

County

Jackson Parish

Touchdown point

32.423, -92.522

Lift-off point

32.461, -92.466

Record number

2203301144-01

24 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS SHV, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 90 mph.

• Lots of old damage, but some looks new

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A closed upper low pressure system entered the Four Corners Region on March 29th, before opening up into a trough which lifted through the Southern Rockies during the evening through the early morning hours of the 30th. A very strong southerly low level jet developed during the afternoon and evening of the 29th over the Southern Plains ahead of this ejecting trough, with large scale forcing along and east of the West Texas dryline contributing to the development of scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms, which marched east into East Texas during the pre-dawn hours of the 30th, and North Louisiana from the mid-morning through the early afternoon. Diurnal heating contributed to increased instability by mid and late morning over North Louisiana, which resulted in scattered severe thunderstorms producing damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. These storms eventually exited North Louisiana to the east by mid-afternoon.

A brief EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds around 90 mph, which originated from a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS), touched down on Vernon-Eros Road and travelled just under a mile to the northeast before lifting just south of Parish Road 363. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path before lifting.

An EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds near 90 mph, which originated from a quasi-linear convective system, touched down near the intersection of Olive Grove Road and Parish Road 350 and then travelled roughly along and parallel to Olive Grove Road for a little more than four miles, before lifting just northeast of Olive Drive. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted along the tornado's path, although it did result in roof damage to a mobile home and another nearby home along Olive Grove Road.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

42 minutes of warning. NWS SHV issued a tornado warning for this county at 17:02 UTC, 42 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 17:45 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 17:26 UTC and running to 19:15 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 15:56 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Ruston (RSN), 12 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 17:46 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in LouisianaEvery tornado in Louisiana since 1950Warnings in force in Louisiana nowThe forecast where you are

80 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

All 81 of them

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.