Tornadoes · United States · Louisiana · 2022
EF0 tornado, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, May 25, 2022
This EF0 tornado ran 1.4 miles across Pointe Coupee Parish on May 25, 2022, touching down at 8:36 AM CDT and reaching 75 yards wide. It killed nobody.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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.
The record
- Rating
- EF0
- Date
- May 25, 2022
- Touchdown
- 8:36 AM CDT (13:36 UTC)
- Lifted
- 8:38 AM CDT (13:38 UTC)
- On the ground
- 2 minutes
- Path length
- 1.4 miles (2.2 km)
- Path width
- 75 yards (69 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Touchdown point
- 30.821, -91.660
- Lift-off point
- 30.835, -91.643
- Record number
- 2205250736-01
The damage survey
6 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS LIX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.
- Two photos from broadcast media of snapped hardwood trees and broken branches along Normandy Lane off LA1. Time: 13:37Z
- Combination of high resolution satellite imagery from May 26-28, 2022 and virtual ground survey via Google street view shows hardwood trees snapped just north of Normandy Ln. Tree health and contextual damage supports bumping down.
- Tree damage visible on high resolution satellite imagery on May 26, 2022 in association with tornadic circulation. This is the apparent start of the Normandy Lane Tornado.
- Numerous trees sustained damage with broken branches and few small trees were snapped along Normandy Lane.
Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.
The surface observations
New Roads (HZR), 21 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
This ground now
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The other tornadoes of May 25, 2022
7 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25 | 5:11 AM CDT | EF1 | Escambia, FL | 0.4 | 50 | |||
| May 25 | 5:21 AM CDT | EF1 | Jefferson, TX | 1.0 | 50 | $100,000 | ||
| May 25 | 10:28 AM CDT | EF0 | DeKalb, AL | 0.3 | 65 | |||
| May 25 | 12:53 PM CDT | EF0 | Leake, MS | 2.5 | 150 | $50,000 | ||
| May 25 | 1:16 PM CDT | EF0 | Neshoba, MS | 2.3 | 100 | $10,000 | ||
| May 25 | 3:06 PM CDT | EF1 | Stephenson, IL | 1.8 | 30 | |||
| May 25 | 6:45 PM CDT | EF0 | Rock, WI | 3.5 | 50 | $40,000 |
What this means
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.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.