Tornado (EF2) — St. Charles, Louisiana
December 14, 2022 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
NWS Storm Survey found damage consistent with an EF-2 tornado with max winds of 120 mph and a max width of 75 yards in Killona/Montz, LA in St Charles Parish. The tornado touched down near the St Charles Sheriff s Office and Nelson Coleman Correctional Facility at 2:21PM, where it tore off some of the metal roofing sheets and tossed them across a nearby field. The tornado moved northeastward across Hwy 3141, Hwy 3127, and Adams street, snapping small trees and large branches. It then strengthened and crossed Railroad Drive and Schoolhouse Rds, where it destroyed 2 mobile homes and tossed and flipped another mobile home into a neighboring house. It uplifted the roofs of nearby houses and carried them away. Some houses lost their exterior walls. It then continued northeastward and crossed Ri
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.