EF0 Tornado — Floyd, Indiana

2024-04-02 · near Georgetown, Floyd, Indiana

Event narrative

The National Weather Service in Louisville conducted a damage assessment survey of a tornado that started at a property off of Hidden Springs Drive in far eastern Harrison County, Indiana and ended near Watts Road, just south of Georgetown, in Floyd County. Video clearly showed the tornado touching down multiple times. In Harrison County the tornado was rated EF1, but in Floyd County it was rated EF0.

As the tornado crossed Georgetown County Line Road into Floyd County, there was an uptick in how widespread the damage was, and the damage was slightly more impressive with a few large branches being snapped.

Between Old Lanesville Road and Georgetown Lanesville Road, scattered tree damage continued with a large tree being uprooted. Several compromised trees were brought down too. An eyewitness that was on Georgetown Lanesville Road during the storm said she saw a finger of a tornado touch down at a house on that road before lifting. She didn't see the tornado touch down again.

The last of the damage was found off of Watts Road. A house just west of the road had damage to its gutter covers. Just east of the road, minor tree damage was observed.

Wider weather episode

As a surface low cut across Missouri and Illinois, its eastward stretching warm front moved north across central Indiana while its cold front moved east towards the Lower Ohio Valley. This placed southern Indiana in the warm sector, where 3 separate lines of convection moved through during the day. The first line of storms generating from an early morning outflow boundary dropped southeast through the area. This produced some isolated wind damage which caused one person to get injured in Dubois County. The second line, moving west to east, ripped the roof off a fire house in Crawford County before producing a tornado near Georgetown. The third line, just ahead of the cold front, moved through during the evening hours. This line knocked trees down in Crawford County before producing a tornado along Interstate 265 in Clark County that crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky. A total of ten injuries were reported from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1175675. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.