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EF0 tornado in Marshall County, Indiana

Tornado July 15, 2024 · Marshall County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 survey of damage confirmed a brief tornado, embedded with a larger area of damaging winds. The tornado touched down southwest of the intersection of 19th Rd and Birch Rd, then moved northeast. Damage was confined to several trees being snapped or uprooted in the area.

The wider storm

A decaying derecho moved through the area late in the evening on July 15th. Storms raced eastward into southwest Lower Michigan and northern Indiana, prompting several Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for winds up to 70+ mph and Tornado Warnings for embedded rotation along the line. Three tornadoes were confirmed.

Began near Tippecanoe (41.1976, -86.0867).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 La Porte County EF1 Elkhart County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1203787. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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