Patrick Madden
/ WWNO
It’s official – a tornado tore through New Orleans on Wednesday morning.
According to meteorologists with the National Weather Service (NWS), a tornado with max winds of 85 miles per hour touched down around 2 a.m. near Carrollton and Claiborne avenues before crossing through the Central Business District and jumping the Mississippi River to Algiers Point.
Tornadoes are ranked on what's called an
Enhanced Fujita Scale from 0 to 5 based on the type of damage they caused. This was the weakest possible — an EF0 — but still ripped up trees, tore off tree limbs, and tore a tin roof off of the Amtrak terminal as it passed across the city.