Thunderstorm Wind in Parke County, Indiana

Thunderstorm Wind April 2, 2026 · Parke County, Indiana

60 mph

Estimated gust (52 kt)

$50K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Thunderstorm locally-enhanced straight line winds occurred several miles upstream and downstream of the tornado, downing a tree and damaging a barn among other damage.

The wider storm

On April 2nd's early evening, an upper level short wave disturbance crossing the Middle Mississppi Valley, and associated 1000-mb surface low pressure tracking quickly from Iowa to Wiscomsin, placed central Indiana within its warm sector. The conditional set-up for severe weather included steep 0-3 km lapse rates, and corresponding DCAPE values of 500-800 J/kg extending along and just east of the Wabash Valley. A resultant quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) crossed western central Indiana, producing widely scattered damaging straight line winds. The system's overall high cloud base mitigated any tornado production except where a brief EF-0 was spawned in Parke County.

Began near Ferndale (39.7200, -87.1000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Parke County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1322569. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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