EF0 tornado — Franklin County, Indiana

EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Indiana

Tornado April 2, 2025 · Franklin County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

11.0 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Franklin County → Butler County, Ohio; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

The first signs of tornadic damage were observed north of Sparks Road near Sharptown, Indiana, where trees were uprooted or snapped. Additional damage to trees was found to the northeast of the start location along Wesley Chapel Road and Drewersburg Road. Minor damage continued along Dickson Road and State Route 252 and tree damage, minor damage to homes, and minor damage to a church were found along State Line Road, Hamilton Scipio Road, and Cincinnati Brookville Road. The tornado crossed the Indiana-Ohio state line into western Butler County, Ohio, just east of Scipio at 2326EST and continued northeast across Butler County, Ohio, before ending near McGonigle, Ohio, at 2333EST.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed during the late evening hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1243036. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Indiana

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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