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EF0 tornado in Lake County, Indiana

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Lake County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
2.4 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A tornado with estimated peak winds of 80 mph touched down southwest of the intersection of Commercial Avenue and Austin Street and moved generally east, just south of Commercial Avenue. Some houses suffered minor roof and fascia damage along Surrey Drive and Longwood Drive. Tree damage also occurred in this area. Tree damage continued south of Oakley Avenue and south of Lincoln Avenue and then the tornado ended near Route 2, just west of Woodland Court.

The wider storm

A derecho moved across northwest Indiana during the evening of July 15th producing widespread wind damage and three tornadoes, one of which started in northeast Illinois. One fatality occurred when a large tree limb fell onto a house in Cedar Lake.

Began near North Hayden (41.2838, -87.4526).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Will CountyEF0 Lake County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1194721. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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