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EF1 tornado in Adams County, Indiana

Tornado March 14, 2024 · Adams County, Indiana

EF1
Rating
9.3 mi
Whole path
450 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 450 yards (0.26 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 initially began over an open field north of the intersection of East County Road 1200 South and South County Road 600 East and moved east towards the Indiana/Ohio state line. Damage was limited to an outbuilding, some tree damage and shingle damage to a home along East 1200 South in Adams County, Indiana. The tornado then entered Mercer County, Ohio.

The wider storm

A second round of thunderstorms on this date resulted in a couple instances of damaging wind gusts. A third and final round of thunderstorms late in the afternoon resulted in large hail up to 2 and a few reports of wall clouds in Wells and Grant Counties.

Began near Ceylon (40.5743, -84.8211).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1157001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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