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EF0 tornado in Howard County, Indiana

Tornado August 24, 2016 · Howard County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$16K

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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

This EF-0 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph, bent a road sign, damaged a billboard, and damaged trees.

The wider storm

Multiple supercell thunderstorms produced a total of 7 tornadoes across central Indiana on August 24th. Significant damage occurred in Kokomo, where 20 people suffered injuries. There were no fatalities from this event. The 7 tornadoes ratings were: 1 EF-3, 1 EF-2, 2 EF-1s and 3 EF-0s.

Four additional tornadoes were reported in northern Indiana.

Began near Alto (40.4038, -86.1562).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Howard County EF2 Montgomery County EF1 Howard County EF1 Carroll County EF0 Marion County EF0 Howard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 658566. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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