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EF1 tornado in Carroll County, Indiana

Tornado June 6, 2010 · Carroll County, Indiana

EF1

Rating

6.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$185K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A trained spotter reported a tornado silhouetted by lightning in this location. This tornado touched down near County Road 700 N and 500 E in eastern Carroll County around 1:25 AM EDT. Two hog barns were destroyed in the path of this tornado before continuing on into Cass County. Based on the damage observed, this appeared to be a high EF1 tornado with winds approaching 110 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an area of low pressure and a cold front during the late evening of June 5th and the early morning of June 6th. These storms brought multiple tornadoes to northern sections of Indiana, including two in Carroll County. These two tornadoes originated from the same thunderstorm. One tornado was reported near Yeoman in western Carroll County and the other was reported in eastern Carroll County.

Began near Deer Creek (40.6488, -86.4285).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 White County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 238262. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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