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EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Indiana

Tornado April 5, 2023 · Montgomery County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$50K

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

The tornado touched down on the west side of County Road 1050 East

just south of US Route 136. At this location, roof panels were

peeled back on a garage and center cut roofing material was thrown

500 yards. Some siding was peeled off the house.

The tornado moved northeast and crossed US Route 136 with

additional damage to two structures along East New Ross Road, a

house and an outbuilding. The wind entered the open door of the

outbuilding, blew out a wall panel and pulled nails straight out.

A short distance to the north, the house had its eastern garage wall blown out

after the corner of the structure bent inwards. A grill was

thrown to the east-northeast about 20 yards.

The wider storm

A decaying storm complex moved across central Indiana during the morning hours of April 5th causing gradient wind damage across the leading edge of light rain. Within this complex, thunderstorm winds caused more focused damage in a line from Gosport into Marion county. Additional storms developed along and ahead of a line later in the morning and early afternoon causing additional wind damage and a weak EF-0 tornado in eastern Montgomery County.

Began near New Ross (39.9578, -86.7053).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1080501. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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