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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Indiana

Tornado March 30, 2025 · Newton County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

6.1 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

A National Weather Service storm survey determined an EF-0 tornado with peak winds near 75 mph developed south of Lake Village near W 600 N about 2 miles west of US Route 41 where it uprooted several trees near a barn. It then tracked northeast, snapping several trees along W 700 N before crossing Route 41. Sporadic tree and limb damage was noted in a northeast path until the tornado lifted north of State Road 10 and N 75 W.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved across northwestern Indiana during the afternoon of the 30th producing numerous instances of wind damage and one EF-0 tornado in Newton County.

Began near Conrad (41.0825, -87.4850).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244573. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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