EF2 tornado in Delaware County, Indiana
Tornado March 14, 2024 · Delaware County, Indiana
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado started northwest of Selma northwest of Truitt Rd damaging roofs
on homes. It then moved east southeast through Selma damaging a
number of homes, uprooting and snapping trees, and knocking over
some utility poles. Highest wind intensity in Selma, indicated by
extensive damage to a couple homes, was estimated at 120 mph, or
EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Maximum path width through Selma
was about 125-175 yards.
The wider storm
Two rounds of thunderstorms in total brought severe weather to half of central Indiana's counties. During the late morning to early afternoon hours on the 14th, a decaying line of storms brought prolific small hail and isolated wind damage to much of the state.
Severe weather returned when early evening rotating supercells produced widespread large hail across north central Indiana, which gradually spread towards the southeast when a supercell tracking east of Muncie produced additional large hail, damaging winds, and two strong tornadoes. An EF2 impacted Selma in eastern Delaware County, before a long-track EF3 crossed much of Randolph County, with significant damage and one fatality in Winchester, before continuing into Ohio. The governor of Indiana signed an executive order declaring both Delaware and Randolph Counties disaster zones.
Began near Selma (40.2030, -85.3173).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1161519. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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