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EF1 Tornado — Vigo, Indiana

2025-04-02 · near Libertyville, Vigo, Indiana

$200K

Property damage

4.5 mi

Path length

100 yds

Path width

Event narrative

This first tornado to impact central Indiana began in Illinois where it reached EF2 intensity and tracked nearly 45 miles before entering Vigo County, Indiana for the final portion of its track. The circulation tracked east-northeast to New Goshen Avenue, then curled right to an easterly direction taking it into the center of the New Goshen community where the greatest damage occurred. Damage along the east-northeasterly track consistent with EF0 intensity, to the northwest of the West New Goshen community, included downed trees, minor structure and/or roof damage and an collapsed old barn. Damage in New Goshen consistent with high end EF1 intensity included major damage to a large garage with full walls picked up and thrown over other structures, and near-total roof loss to many other structures in the community. The tornado weakened to EF0 intensity as it crossed US Highway 150 and lifted shortly after. The peak wind gusts during this final Indiana segment were 110 mph.

Wider weather episode

A strong low pressure system generated a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that started in Illinois and moved across central Indiana. Multiple severe storms were embedded within the line and some of these produced tornadoes. Eleven tornadoes impacted central Indiana, ten of which occurred along an overall west-southwest to east-northeast area from north of Terre Haute to north of Muncie. Four of these events, from Hendricks County to Delaware County, were secondary tornadoes that tracked parallel to longer duration tornadoes. Three tornadoes combined to impact western and northern portions of the Indianapolis Metro area, including an EF2 in Hendricks County that caused the episode's only injury. In addition to the tornadoes widespread wind damage occurred with gusts over 80+ mph reported.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1248887. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.