Thunderstorm Wind — Shelby, Indiana
2023-02-27 · near Fairland, Shelby, Indiana
$20K
Property damage
52 EG
Magnitude
Event narrative
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and a power pole into a house.
Wider weather episode
A potent cyclone crossed northern Illinois, bringing central Indiana into its warm sector. This allowed very strong vertical wind shear courtesy of the system's strong low-level jet stream to combine with the warm sector's adequate instability, producing several severe thunderstorms. Near the greatest shear and instability, small supercell thunderstorms produced severe straight line winds, with one supercell spawning two EF-1 tornadoes in Hancock County.
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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1082952. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.