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F0 tornado in Elkhart County, Indiana

Tornado August 25, 1998 · Elkhart County, Indiana

Rating

24.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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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.

What the National Weather Service wrote

THIS WAS THE SAME TORNADO WHICH BEGAN IN NILES EARLIER. DAMAGE WAS EXTENSIVE TO TREES AND POWER LINES FROM THE ELKHART/CASS COUNTY LINE TO THE TOWN OF BRISTOL. SOME HOMES SUFFERED MAINLY MINOR DAMAGE TO SIDING...ROOFS AND GUTTERS. SOME OUTBUILDINGS HOWEVER WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.

Began near Bristol (41.7700, -85.9800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Elkhart County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5677996. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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