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EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Indiana

Tornado May 16, 2025 · Franklin County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

6.3 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 tornado first developed in Ripley County, Indiana at 1902EST near E County Road 1150 N. The tornado travelled northeast, into Dearborn County and continued into Franklin County at 1910EST just north of N County Line Road, where a barn roof was removed. The tornado dissipated just northeast of this location at 1911EST.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed in an unstable airmass ahead of a cold front.

Began near St Peters (39.3070, -85.0600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1250940. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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