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EF0 tornado in Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Tornado March 2, 2012 · Vanderburgh County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado touched down about 1 mile southeast of Darmstadt and ended around Browning Road.

The wider storm

Supercells developed and moved across southwest Indiana. The supercells raced east-northeast at 50 to 60 mph as a strong storm system moved northeast from Oklahoma to lower Michigan with it's associated cold front sweeping east across the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Strong wind shear with the storm system combined with warm, moist and unstable air provided the fuel for supercell thunderstorms.

Began near Darmstadt (38.0924, -87.5707).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Posey County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 373987. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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