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EF0 tornado in Martin County, Indiana

Tornado July 9, 2024 · Martin County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 was spawned along Dover Hill Road, about 500 feet northeast of the intersection with Rama Dye Road, where large tree limbs and small trees were downed in multiple directions. The tornado skipped while tracking from southeast to northwest for almost 2 miles, with further small trees and tree limbs downed at Killion Mill Road about 0.4 miles east of the intersection with Crane Road, near Lark Ranch. Eyewitness accounts, photos, and Doppler radar data indicated a weak tornado in both areas. Only tree damage was reported.

The wider storm

The extratropical remnants of Hurricane Beryl tracked from far southern Illinois into southwestern portions of central Indiana through evening hours. Immediately following several (EF1-EF3) tornadoes over far southwestern Indiana, a rotating cell within the system's right-front quadrant spawned a weak EF0 tornado in central Martin County. A separate funnel cloud was also observed in Martin County, southeast of Loogootee, with no evidence of a tornado.

Began near Dover Hill (38.7084, -86.8399).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1180669. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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