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EF0 tornado in Wabash County, Indiana

Tornado July 20, 2018 · Wabash County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

A tornado touched down north of the intersection of E CR 700 S and

S CR 390 E where three trees were uprooted, several tree branches

broken and a roof removed from an outbuilding. The tornado

continued northeast, crossing S America Road where trees were

uprooted and tree limbs broken at a residence where it lifted.

The wider storm

Deep low pressure was located over Wisconsin with a warm front extending across northern Indiana. 1000 to 2000 J/KG MLCAPE advected in with area of clearing with effective helicity values in excess of 200 m2/s2. Several strong to severe storms developed with intense microbursts in a few spots as well as a weak tornado.

Began near Lincolnville (40.7281, -85.7180).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 771902. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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