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EF0 tornado in Scott County, Indiana

Tornado April 2, 2025 · Scott County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
15.3 mi
Whole path
5 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 5 yards (0.00 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

An EF2 tornado, with peak winds of 115 mph, tracked across a little over a 15-mile stretch of southern and eastern Washington County late Wednesday night. It likely dissipated over the heavily forested area along the Washington/Scott county border.

It was on the ground for 13 minutes and had a peak width of 600 yards.

The tornado ended in the woods northeast of the eastern end of Calloway Rd, or

somewhere near the Washington/Scott County border.. The survey also found some sporadic straight line wind damage along the storm's path into Scott County south of Scottsburg.

The wider storm

On the night of April 2nd, 2025, a cold front approached the lower Ohio Valley. Along and ahead of the cold front, numerous supercells developed over southern Illinois and western Kentucky. These storms tracked eastward and occasionally grew upscale into a QLCS with bowing segments. Storms lasted all night and into the morning hours, as the cold front began to stall over the lower Ohio Valley. These storms left behind a wake of damage in many counties in southern Indiana. Over the next few days, waves of showers and storms rode along the cold front bringing lots of rain which lead to flash and areal flooding. Showers and storms came through daily, until the evening of April 6th. Overall, 2 tornadoes touched down in south central Indiana from late evening into the overnight on April 2nd and 3rd, including one EF-2 and one EF-1.

Began near Leota (38.6050, -85.8860).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1259408. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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