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EF1 tornado in Lagrange County, Indiana

Tornado September 24, 2024 · Lagrange County, Indiana

EF1
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
2
Injuries
$300K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 same storm that produced the EF1 tornado in Noble county, intensified once again, producing yet another tornado near the intersection of County Roads 300 S and 300 E. It continued northeast damaging barns and knocking down trees. It completely destroyed an outbuilding and ripped the roof off and knocked the walls down of a chicken housing structure. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter in a field. A horse and buggy was blown over in the 2900 block of County Road E 300 S, with 2 occupants suffering minor injuries. Maximum sustained winds of 95 mph were estimated.

The wider storm

Small, cyclic tornadoes moved through the warm sector of a low pressure system tracking from central IL to Kalamazoo. Widespread stratiform rain in the morning gave way to decreasing clouds which permitted scattered showers to develop. Three tornadoes occurred in Indiana. One tornado occurred in Michigan.

Began near Valentine (41.5975, -85.3706).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1208297. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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