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EF0 tornado in Johnson County, Indiana

Tornado June 11, 2026 · Johnson County, Indiana

EF0
Rating
11.9 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$450K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Johnson County → Shelby 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

An EF-1 tornado with path length of 11.94 miles and a path width of 200 yards began in Johnson county with 2.47 miles of it within Johnson county. The tornado had a peak wind of 105 mph with peak winds of 90 mph within Johnson county. Within Johnson county, impacts were limited to tree damage and several farms and structures with minor damage.

The wider storm

During the 11th evening, a cold front interacted with a warm, moist, and unstable air mass across central and northern Indiana, initiating a fast-moving severe convective line. The synoptic setup supported widespread straight-line wind damage and embedded mesovortices as the squall line tracked eastward through the region between 7:59 PM EST and 10:32 PM EST.

Five tornadoes touched down across Warren, Carroll, Johnson, Shelby, and Randolph counties during the event. Four brief EF-0 tornadoes produced peak winds between 70 mph and 85 mph, causing tree damage and minor agricultural impacts. The most significant tornado was an EF-1 that tracked nearly 12 miles across Johnson and Shelby counties, generating peak winds of 105 mph that damaged several homes, outbuildings, and trees.

Widespread straight-line winds produced the majority of the severe impacts as the line moved across more than a dozen counties. Measured wind gusts frequently ranged from 59 mph to 67 mph, with localized straight-line winds estimated up to 95 mph in Howard County. Damage across the region included widespread downed trees and power lines, overturned commercial vehicles on major highways, and structural damage to roofs, barns, and outbuildings. This severe weather event would be the third of many for the month which would eventually define a formal disaster period from June 6th to the 18th which was declared by the governor of Indiana.

Began near Rocklane (39.6000, -86.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1342619. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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