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EF1 tornado in Scott County, Indiana

Tornado January 29, 2008 · Scott County, Indiana

EF1

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$70K

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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

An EF1 tornado touched down just east of Lexington. It snapped and uprooted trees, destroyed a mobile home, and caused roof damage to a number of homes.

The wider storm

A powerful cold front sparked a lengthy squall line that crossed all of southern Indiana on the evening of January 29. A large number of locations had 60 to as much as 100 mph winds, causing extensive property damage. There were also a few small tornado spin-ups, one of which caused a fatality when a tree fell onto a mobile home near Henryville, Indiana.

Began near Lexington (38.6503, -85.6140).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Clark County 1 dead EF1 Washington County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 72221. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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