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F0 tornado in Hendricks County, Indiana

Tornado March 31, 2006 · Hendricks County, Indiana

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

A small tornado touched down near Brownsburg on 31 March 2006. Damage was confined mostly to outbuildings and trees.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms which formed over northwest central Indiana quickly transitioned to a powerful and expanding squall line with embedded supercells that moved southeast through central Indiana during the afternoon and evening of 31 March 2006. Two tornadoes touched down in the 9-county Indianapolis metropolitan area, one of which was on the ground for 17 miles and did an estimated 8 million dollars in damage.

Began near Brownsburg (39.8500, -86.4833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Johnson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493250. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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