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EF0 tornado in Clark County, Indiana

Tornado September 24, 2024 · Clark County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
3.9 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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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 National Weather Service damage survey team confirmed an EF0 tornado tracked between Clarksville and Sellersburg in southern Clark County. The tornado touched down just northeast of the intersection of Interstate 65 and Interstate 265. The majority of the damage was in the Silver Lake Trailer Park. Trees were uprooted and topped, hitting two different mobile homes; the trees were facing from the north to the

northeast. There were nine power poles and seven cross members heavily

damaged. The foundations of some of the mobile homes had shifted as a result of the tornado. Tornado wind speeds were estimated to be 80 miles per hour, with a width of up to 100 yards.

A railroad arm at Apple Leaf Lane and U.S. Route 31 was bent significantly.

The tornado damaged a couple of trees in fields as it moved to the

northeast towards Charlestown Pike. Near the Prather Schoolhouse and Ladies Union Club on Charlestown Pike, there were several trees twisted and topped. Tornado wind speeds were estimated to be 75 miles per hour, with a width of up to 50 yards. The

tornado lifted just northeast of Charlestown Pike.

The wider storm

During the day on September 24th, an area of low pressure moved across the lower Great Lakes region. A cold front extending to the south of the surface low moved across the Ohio Valley during the afternoon and evening hours on the 24th. Along and ahead of the cold front, surface temperatures warmed into the upper 70s and low 80s with dewpoint temperatures rising into the upper 60s, providing sufficient instability for thunderstorms to develop. A dominant cluster of thunderstorms formed just north of the Ohio River during the early afternoon hours, producing scattered wind damage on both sides of the river. An EF0 tornado also formed within this area of severe thunderstorms, moving across southern Clark County and producing minor damage. By mid-to-late afternoon, the cold front pushed through southern Indiana, bringing an end to the severe weather risk.

Began near Cementville (38.3493, -85.7513).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1215498. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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