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EF0 tornado in Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Tornado June 18, 2025 · Tippecanoe County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 first tornado of the event impacted mostly trees in a valley before moving up a hill and crossing 850W. A home in the path suffered very minor damage with the tornado dissipating in a field just south of 200S. Tornado had a peak wind of 80 mph.

The wider storm

A slowly-approaching cold front focused buoyant low levels, low cloud bases, and sufficient low level shear into the western Midwest on the 18th. A long and bowed squall line strengthened over Illinois during the early afternoon, tracking into Indiana where embedded severe cells extended, by mid-afternoon, from almost South Bend to Evansville. The line steadily crossed central Indiana, exiting the region by early evening. Associated scattered wind damage occurred in 32 of the region's 39 counties, with winds measured to 65 mph or greater in 6 counties, and gusts of 71 mph or greater observed in Owen County and at both the Indianapolis and Muncie ASOS. Large hail was limited to Madison County where it was reported as large as 1.50 inches. Early in the episode, two, brief EF0 tornaodes were spawned in Tippecanoe County.

Began near West Pt (40.3800, -87.0700).

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 1270278. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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