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EF2 tornado in Cass County, Indiana

Tornado June 6, 2010 · Cass County, Indiana

EF2

Rating

7.5 mi

Whole path

175 yd

Path width

Injuries

$875K

Damage as recorded

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

EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

After a brief break, the supercell produced one more circulation which touched down just west of the Cass/Miami county line along South County Road 1000 East. Several yards in the area had trees uprooted and limbs down (DI: TH, DOD: 4). A few residences were impacted by the trees, causing mainly roof or window damage. The circulation then went into a dense grove of trees with the circulation briefly weakening before coming back out near the Grissom Air Reserve Base. A 200 foot section of security fence on the southwest corner of the base was blown down into the adjacent roadway and portions of the nearby field before crossing into Miami County. An Automated Weather Observation System recorded a 114 mph wind gust as the circulation passed through.

The wider storm

A supercell developed ahead of a cold front in Illinois and tracked east-southeast through Benton county into White county. This storm produced three tornadoes across Indiana, an EF0 in Eastern White County (which moved into Carroll County), an EF1 which started in eastern Carroll County and moved into Cass County, and a third, a stronger EF3 which formed near the Grissom Air Force base in Cass County and moved rapidly east into Miami County. Despite the tornadoes occurring during the overnight hours, no fatalities occurred.

Began near Lincoln (40.6382, -86.1844).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 White County EF1 Cass County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 236024. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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