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17:43Z EF0 KABX NM Socorro Scholle A member of the public reported a landspout tornado near Abo, but no damage was reported.
17:48Z EF0 KPOE LA St. Landry Arnaudville A video of a thin and brief tornado near Arnaudville was sent in. No damage occurred.
18:13Z EF0 KPOE LA St. Landry Port Barre Broadcast media relayed a picture or a thin tornado near Port Barre. No damage occurred.
18:14Z EF0 KLCH LA Jefferson Davis Lacassine A picture of a tornado was sent through social media. The tornado was brief, narrow, and did not cause damage.
18:17Z EF0 KLCH LA Calcasieu Lake Charles Muni Ar A home was hit by a tornado on Tank Farm Road causing roof damage. Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office witnessed the brief tornado from the office.
18:45Z EF0 KABX NM Valencia Valencia A social media user caught video of a brief landspout from a weak thunderstorm near Bosque Farms. No damage was reported.
19:08Z EF0 KABX NM Sandoval Domingo A member of the public reported a landspout tornado from a thunderstorm near Kewa Pueblo. The landspout developed on the southwest side of the storm and tracked northwest for approximately eight minutes. No damage was reported.
19:17Z EF0 KLCH LA Acadia Lyons Pt Minor damage from a tornado occurred to a home on Highway 13. Pictures of a thin tornado were also sent in through social media.
20:30Z EF0 KLCH LA Jefferson Davis Jennings Arpt Pictures of a rope tornado were posted to social media. The tornado remained in a field and no damage occurred.
21:12Z EF0 KLCH LA Acadia Crowley A spotter reported a brief tornado in a field that did not cause damage.
21:45Z EFU KRIW WY Carbon Rawlins Brief landspout tornado was observed with photos disseminated by Carbon County Emergency Manager south of Rawlins. According to reports by the public via social media, landspout tornado remained over open areas with no discernable damage to rank only as EFU. Given limited evidence, specific location, width, length and timing are all estimates.
22:23Z EF0 KFDX NM Curry Melrose Multiple spotters reported a brief tornado north of Melrose. No damage was reported.
22:33Z EF0 KFDX NM Quay Nara Visa A supercell near Nara Visa spawned a brief tornado which tracked northwest for approximately ten minutes. No damage was reported.
23:34Z EF0 KGLD KS Stanton Stanton Co Arpt A landspout was observed over an open field.
23:35Z EFU KAMA TX Oldham Boys Ranch The tornado touched down in very rural portions of Oldham county|and remained in open prairie grassland with no structures or|trees hit and no damage reported. The entire life cycle of the|tornado was documented by a local storm spotter.
00:11Z EF2 KSJT TX Sterling Sterling City A NWS Storm Survey was conducted for this tornado that was videotaped by many storm chasers throughout it's track across northern Sterling County. We found many snapped Mesquite tree trunks and plenty of tree limb damage. The tornado moved large wind turbine propellers at two different locations, and it snapped 16 power poles across two ranches. The tornado caused a wind mill stand to bend over. A nearby crane located about a mile south of the tornado track or in the rear flank downdraft, measured a wind speed of 109 mph. The twister destroyed a camper. ||The collective videotapes on social media from the many storm chasers, showed the tornado starting out as a multi-vortex tornado in the northwest part of Sterling County around 711 PM CDT, transitioning to a large cone near the wind farms, and then becoming rain wrapped as it struck the gas plant at around 747 PM CDT. As the tornado struck a gas plant on State Highway 163, it slung a large dumpster about 300 yards into a nearby pasture, snapped a telephone pole and threw a large Conix container about 50 feet. It also bent one of the towers on the plant. ||Many thanks to the Sterling County Sheriff's Department, the Stewart Ranch, National Weather Service Midland, other ranchers and all of the storm chasers for their excellent assistance.
00:50Z EFU KLBB TX Hockley Smyer Numerous reports of a funnel cloud and a brief touchdown were received on a supercell just west of Wolfforth. The tornado briefly touched down in an open field in Hockley County just west of the Lubbock/Hockley County line. No damage was known from this tornado, therefore, a rating of EF-Unknown was assigned.
07:50Z EF0 KLIX LA St. Tammany Houltonville A storm likely spawned a waterspout near the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain and moved onshore as a tornado near Guste Island around 2:50 AM CDT. The tornado tracked to the north-northwest across mainly uninhabited swamp lands about two miles west of the Tchefuncte River. Sporadic softwood and hardwood tree damage was noted on the eastern shore of the inlet. Additional damage was likely but it was inaccessible during the the storm survey. The damage that was viewable from the ground survey indicates an EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds around 75 mph. ||The tornado was also confirmed by KLIX radar data with a tornado debris signature evident as it was crossing the inlet at 2:53 AM CDT. The tornado quickly lifted around 2:55 AM as it approached the northern shore of this inlet.
08:16Z EF0 KLIX LA Jefferson Kenner A tornado touched down just north of the river and south of the airport in Kenner and took the roof off a large building. It was noted the roof material was severely corroded and rusted. The tornado moved north and convergence in downed trees was seen just to the east of a cemetery. The tornado continued to track north- northeast, with trees down near the railroad tracks and power lines down just north of the tracks, where it looks like the tornado lifted.

Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).