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F0 tornado in Lagrange County, Indiana

Tornado May 18, 1997 · Lagrange County, Indiana

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

Injury

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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.

The wider storm

Tornado at Stone Lake at 930 pm est threw boat from lake intoliving room, house collapsed. Eight homes damaged.

Began near Stone Lake (42.3000, -86.4700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5598735. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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