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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Indiana

Tornado May 7, 2024 · Fayette County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

2.9 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The tornado began along North County Road 350 West, about 3 miles northeast of Bentonville, where tree damage was observed. Additional tree damage occurred to the east of Paul Road on the Fayette and Wayne County border. The tornado moved into Wayne County at 1910EST and continued northeast before ending about 1 mile north of Milton at 1913EST.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Bentonville (39.7720, -85.2022).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Franklin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172502. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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