EF1 Tornado — Madison, Indiana

2025-04-02 · near Fishersburg, Madison, Indiana

Event narrative

This seventh tornado to impact central Indiana was the second of five tornadoes spawned within Madison County and Delaware County. This longer track tornado sliced across west-central and central Madison County, from a field just north of Fishersburg to near the community of Prosperity, about four miles north of Anderson. The circulation tracked to the northeast until after crossing the White River when it tracked in a north-northeasterly direction. At a farm north-northeast of Fishersburg several barns and a grain silo sustained damage, with an L-shaped poll barn destroyed. Wind from the circulation blew in a south-facing garage door, then lifted the roof which collapsed walls. Sporadic damage occurred along the remaining 10.5 miles of the vortex's path. Peak wind gusts 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 1248892. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.