EF0 tornado in Allen County, Indiana

Tornado March 31, 2023 · Allen County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

9.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Allen County → Allen County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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, weak EF-0 tornado formed in response to a microburst

that occurred off to the south. Minor damage was observed to a

few homes and barn buildings along Antwerp Rd and Dean Rd. Trees

in the vicinity were snapped and uprooted. Debris was observed

in adjacent fields.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developing in the evening of March 31 resulted in multiple weather hazards. Hail nearly 2 inches in diameter was observed, trees were downed from thunderstorm wind, and flooding occurred from heavy rain rates. In the days that followed, storm damage surveys teams confirmed multiple tornadoes has moved through.

Began near Harlan (41.1961, -84.9000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Grant County EF2 Benton County EF2 Grant County EF1 Cass County EF0 White County EF0 Jay County EF0 Jay County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1086292. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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