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EF1 tornado in Jasper County, Indiana

Tornado March 10, 2026 · Jasper County, Indiana

EF1
Rating
26.0 mi
Whole path
900 yd
Path width
3
Injuries

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 900 yards (0.51 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 EF-1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph tracked across northern Jasper County south of Stoutsburg, Wheatfield, and Dunns Bridge. This tornado began about 2 miles south of Stoutsburg along CR W 1000 N, where there was damage noted to a solar panel field and power poles. The tornado moved east-northeast, causing damage to a farmstead on CR N 200 W. The most significant damage from this tornado was noted just south of Wheatfield on the 0-100 block of CR W 1100 N and on the 1100 block of State Route 49, where numerous homes sustained considerable damage and numerous trees and power poles were downed. The tornado continued to damage solar panel fields, trees, power poles, and farmsteads as it moved toward the Starke County line, passing through the unincorporated community of Tefft. The tornado dissipated before reaching Starke County on the 500 block of CR E 1350 N. Three minor injuries were reported with the tornado.

The wider storm

A powerful supercell thunderstorm tracked an EF-3 tornado across northern Newton and northwestern Jasper counties and another EF-1 tornado through northern Jasper County during the evening of March 10th. The EF-3 destroyed a number of homes and caused significant damage to many other homes, businesses, and infrastructure, especially in the town of Lake Village where two fatalities occurred as a result of the storm. Additional severe thunderstorms later in the evening brought one inch hail to northern Lake and Porter counties.

Began near Kniman (41.1559, -87.1182).

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 1318817. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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