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F0 tornado in St. Joseph County, Indiana

Tornado October 24, 2001 · St. Joseph County, Indiana

Rating

35.0 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

Death

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through La Porte County → St. Joseph County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Tornado touched down on the north side of Wanatah in Laporte county and moved northeast into St Joseph county 4 miles east of Rolling Prairie. One woman was killed 4 miles east of Laporte in her mobile home where F2 damage occurred. Most damage was F1 with an average path width of 600 yards.

Began near Westfield (41.6667, -86.5167).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5271992. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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