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EF0 tornado in Randolph County, Indiana

Tornado August 20, 2022 · Randolph County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
1.7 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 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 brief tornado touched down about one mile south-southeast of Stone, at the homestead immediately west-northwest of the intersection of county roads West 400 North and North 100 West. This landspout damaged the roof and metal encasing structure of an old outbuilding. Parts of the roof were thrown downwind, with a few 2x4 beams scattered between the building and thrown roof. Eyewitnesses reported the landspout lifted and then dropped in open fields for a few minutes, with no further damage noted, while tracking to the east-northeast.

The wider storm

Scattered afternoon showers and isolated strong thunderstorms included one severe event, a brief EF0 landspout tornado in north-central Randolph County.

Began near Stone (40.2224, -84.9967).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1040302. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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