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EF0 tornado in Ripley County, Indiana

Tornado April 8, 2020 · Ripley County, Indiana

EF0

Rating

9.6 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$180K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Ripley County → Ripley County → Dearborn County → Ohio County → Ohio County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

A brief tornado touched down in far southeast Ripley County in Cross Plains. The tornado damaged trees as well as roofs of homes and businesses. Based on the degree of damage, the tornado produced winds of around 65 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an advancing cold front which crossed east through the region.

Began near Cross Plains (38.9440, -85.2051).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Ripley County EF0 Ohio County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 878041. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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