EF2 Tornado — Delaware, Indiana

2024-03-14 · near Selma, Delaware, Indiana

Event narrative

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.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1161519. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.