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EF0 tornado in Lake County, Indiana

Tornado March 15, 2025 · Lake County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
4.9 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

Damage surveys confirmed an EF-0 tornado. A tornado began just north of Rohrman Drive near a small pond between Rohrman Park and Painted Leaf Drive in southeast Schererville. After snapping multiple trees in Memory Lane Memorial Cemetery, the tornado then moved rapidly northeast across US 30 into west Merrillville, passing just east of Miller Elementary School before ending east of US 55 near West 52nd Place in southeast Ross. Damage included multiple uprooted or snapped large trees along with shingle and roof trim damage to homes across multiple residential areas along the five mile path, with peak estimated winds near 80 mph.

The wider storm

A strong QLCS produced isolated instances of severe wind damage and a couple of brief tornadoes as it crossed from northern Illinois into northwestern Indiana.

Began near New Elliott (41.4693, -87.4173).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Lake County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1238100. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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