EF0 tornado in Lake County, Indiana

Tornado June 11, 2026 · Lake County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

34.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lake County → Lake County → Porter County → Porter County → La Porte County → Porter County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph touched down near Colfax Street, just south of W 221st Avenue. The tornado snapped a few trees along W 221st Avenue but otherwise caused only sporadic tree damage along the rest of its path. The tornado crossed Interstate 65 north of E 205th Avenue and then crossed into Porter County just south of Route 2.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms moved across northwest Indiana during the afternoon and evening of June 11th producing wind damage, localized flooding and several tornadoes.

Began near Schneider (41.2141, -87.4111).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lake County EF1 Benton County EF0 Lake County EF0 Lake County EF0 Newton County EF0 Newton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1342275. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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