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F1 tornado in Washington County, Indiana

Tornado May 30, 2004 · Washington County, Indiana

Rating

10.6 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$120K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

The tornado was first spotted southwest of Salem in the Mill Creek Flats area off State Road 56. It destroyed a barn and some other outbuildings on Beck's Mill Road west of Salem. It lifted as it passed the city of Salem, then touched down again intermittently east of Salem. The tornado destroyed another barn on Walker Road east of Salem. The eastern extent of the tornado path and the ending time of the event are estimated.

Began near Salem (38.5667, -86.1500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Crawford County 1 dead F1 Clark County F0 Floyd County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5396682. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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