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EF0 tornado in Hamilton County, Indiana

Tornado July 29, 2024 · Hamilton County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

3.0 mi

Whole path

15 yd

Path width

$765K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 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 began as an EF0 with damage to the roof of a metal barn and uprooted trees along Strawtown Road, just west of Indiana State Road 13 in Hamilton County. The tornado skipped over SR 13 into Madison County where it continued for another 2.6 miles while intensifying to an EF2. The tornado's maximum width of 50 yards occurred in Madison County.

The wider storm

Scattered to numerous evening thunderstorms tracking mainly eastward across central Indiana, included 5 severe cells that altogether produced widely scattered wind damage. More pronounced rotation was exhibited by a few storms crossing northeastern central Indiana, with a funnel cloud near the ground in Henry County, before a tornado that started as an EF0 in Hamilton County, which tracked for 3 miles into Madison County, peaking at EF2 intensity just before dissipating.

Began near Walnut Grove (40.1380, -85.8719).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1189026. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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