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EF2 tornado in Kosciusko County, Indiana

Tornado October 18, 2007 · Kosciusko County, Indiana

EF2

Rating

20.3 mi

Whole path

880 yd

Path width

Injuries

$14.6M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marshall County → Kosciusko County → Elkhart County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado continued tracking northeast from Marshall county into extreme northwestern Kosciusko county. 116 structures were reported to have some sort of damage. 17 homes were destroyed, 6 suffered major damage and 17 minor damage. A horse was killed in a barn that was destroyed. Damage estimated around 3 million dollars.

The wider storm

A combination of strong dynamics, wind shear, and rapid low level moisture return all combined to produce severe weather across much of Northern Indiana. One of several supercell thunderstorms produced a long tracked tornado which reached the high end of EF3.

Began near Nappanee (41.3859, -86.0446).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 55288. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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