Louisiana storm reports for April 30, 2017

Name: NOAA storm reports, Louisiana, April 30, 2017
Creator: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

NOAA recorded 9 wind reports and 3 tornado reports in Louisiana on April 30, 2017.

in Louisiana; 12
Storm reports: About 31 miles from Lafayette, LA; 58 mph
Highest gust: Highest rating EF1, about 43 miles from Jackson, MS; 3
Tornado reports

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

0.75
1
1.5
2
2.5
3+

Dots: reports.

Wind report
Tornado and its path
Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on April 30, 2017 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

Reports by hour

Wind9, most at 8 AM

Tornado3, most at 1 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

Time	Rating	Where	Path
7:13 AM	EF1	About 43 miles from Jackson, MS	9.24 mi long, 440 yd wide
1:15 PM	EF1	About 27 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	0.9 mi long, 50 yd wide
1:50 PM	EF0	About 14 miles from Baton Rouge, LA	0.3 mi long, 40 yd wide

Time	Gust	Where
7:23 AM	58 mph	About 31 miles from Lafayette, LA
7:30 AM	58 mph	About 18 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:00 AM	58 mph	About 25 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:00 AM	58 mph	About 37 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:23 AM	58 mph	About 24 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:23 AM	58 mph	About 29 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:23 AM	58 mph	About 14 miles from Lafayette, LA
8:58 AM	58 mph	About 39 miles from Baton Rouge, LA
12:23 PM	58 mph	About 17 miles from Lafayette, LA

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

City	Largest hail	Highest gust	Tornado reports
Baton Rouge, LA	None	None	1
Lafayette, LA	None	58 mph	0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.