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EF0 tornado in Cass County, Indiana

Tornado March 6, 2022 · Cass County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado briefly touched down south of the intersection of W CR 400 N and N CR 925 W causing damage to some trees as well as a house chimney. The tornado moved quickly northeast and ripped off a enclosed porch from a residence at the intersection of W CR 400 N and N CR 900 W, throwing it around 175 feet over the house. Some trees were damaged on the property with a hanging shed door being blown off (east facing) due to intrusion of wind on the south side from a broken window and open door. Vehicles in the shed were not damaged. An empty silo to the north of the house was thrown along the road with debris into the adjacent field (this was straight line wind related). The debris ended out in the open field on the NE side of the intersection noted above. A pine tree on the SE side of the intersection was also snapped and thrown into this same field from the SW.

The wider storm

A line of strong to locally severe thunderstorms tracked across much of northern Indiana producing pockets of damaging winds as well as a brief tornado in Cass County.

Began near Lake Cicott (40.8219, -86.5484).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1015598. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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