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EF0 tornado in Sullivan County, Indiana

Tornado May 16, 2025 · Sullivan County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
10.7 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Crawford County, Illinois → Clark County, Illinois → Sullivan County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 episode's fourth tornado, which had started in Crawford County, Illinois before reaching EF1 intensity in Clark County, IL, crossed the Wabash River into far northwestern Sullivan County while continuing to weaken through EF0 intensity. The tornado uprooted and downed several trees near its end point south-southwest of the Riverview community, about 600 feet northeast of the intersection of County Roads 1100 West and 600 North. Peak wind gusts were 80 mph.

The wider storm

A persistently humid and unseasonably warm air mass provided ample instability late on the 16th. Meanwhile, mid-level forcing streamed into central Indiana from west to east, around the southeastern periphery of a strong mid-latitude cyclone positioned over the Upper Midwest. These ingredients combined to produce rotating storms with damaging winds and tornadoes across southern central Indiana through the late day.

Began near Riverview (39.1756, -87.6209).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Greene County 1 deadEF2 Monroe CountyEF1 Greene CountyEF0 Putnam County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252307. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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