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F3 tornado in Adams County, Indiana

Tornado November 10, 2002 · Adams County, Indiana

Rating

5.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$125K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

This tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Berne and moved just northeast of Salem before lifting.An NWS ground survey found F3 damage at times 200 yards wide northeast of Berne. Much of the damage was to extremely well built Amish barns and homes. A mobile home was also destroyed near Salem.

Began near Berne (40.6667, -84.9167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F1 Blackford County F0 Wells County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5323452. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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