EF1 tornado in Orange County, Indiana

Beginning in an open field less than a quarter of a mile south of the Orange/Lawrence County line, this tornado tracked northeastward for 3.2 miles across portions of three counties. Near its touch down 3.1 miles northwest of Saltillo, it destroyed a large wooden barn and uprooted several trees on the south side of Suddarth Ln before entering Lawrence County. It had a path length of 0.3 miles in Orange County.

Warm humid air in place across the Lower Ohio Valley ahead of deep closed low over Missouri led to widespread severe weather across the lower Missouri Valley and Indiana. A squall line developed across southern Illinois and western Kentucky during the afternoon hours on May 25th and raced across southern Indiana at around 45 mph during the evening and early morning hours on the 26th. Widespread wind damage was reported with frequent reports of 60 to 70 mph winds. A bow echo brought several embedded tornadoes across Dubois, Orange, and Washington counties in southern Indiana.