National Weather Service personnel from North Webster, Indianapolis, Louisville KY and Wilmington OH have been surveying damage from Tuesday's storms and so far they have found 15 tornadoes. The breakdown by area is as follows:
7 NWS Louisville
5 NWS North Webster
2 NWS Indianapolis
1 NWS Wilmington
This information is still preliminary and it is possible that additional tornadoes may be found. Even if nothing else is found, this already goes down as one of the biggest April tornado outbreaks in state history in terms of raw count; it also surpasses a well-known outbreak that occurred exactly 15 years earlier on April 19-20, 1996. It appears that many of the tornadoes were rain-wrapped and/or brief, and we are fortunate that most of them were of the EF0 or EF1 variety. Still, this was a rather impressive event.
I will have more on this outbreak in the coming days.
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