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F0 tornado in Hendricks County, Indiana

Tornado May 9, 2000 · Hendricks County, Indiana

F0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

The wider storm

A squall-line moved across central Indiana producing widespread tree damage, localized structural damage and one death and three injuries. A weak F0 tornado also briefly touched down in a farm field near Brownsburg doing no propery damage. A 42 year old woman was killed as a tree fell on her moving vehicle near Hillsboro in Fountain county, while three people were injured near Waynetown in Montgomery county when a tree fell on their car. Meanwhile, thunderstorm gusts up to 80 mph damaged the roofs to a grocery store and hotel near Terre Haute and four homes at Clarks Hill in Tippecanoe county. Fallen trees also damaged two cars near Brazil in Clay county. Otherwise, there were numerous reports of trees down and golfball size hail across central Indiana .

Began near Brownsburg (39.9000, -86.4667).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5140472. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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