NWS Confirms Tornado In Posey County

RATING:                 EF-1

ESTIMATED PEAK WIND:    100 MPH

PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/:  5 MILES (LENGTH MAY BE ADJUSTED)

PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/:   150 YARDS

FATALITIES:             NONE

INJURIES:               NONE

START DATE:             OCT 13 2014

START TIME:             531 PM CDT

START LOCATION:         2.3 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF NEW HARMONY

END DATE:               OCT 13 2014

END TIME:               542 PM CDT

END LOCATION:           3 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF NEW HARMONY

NWS Confirms Tornado In Putnam County

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN  
153 PM EDT WED OCT 8 2014  
   
..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 10/07/14 TORNADO EVENT  
  
   
CLOVERDALE AREA TORNADO  
  
RATING: EF-0  
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 70 MPH  
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.1 MILES   
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50 YARDS   
FATALITIES: 0   
INJURIES: 0  
  
START DATE: OCT 7 2014   
START TIME: 635 PM EDT   
START LOCATION: 1.9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLOVERDALE / PUTNAM COUNTY/ IN  
  
END DATE: OCT 7 2014  
END TIME: 636 PM EDT  
END LOCATION: 2.0 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLOVERDALE / PUTNAM COUNTY / IN  
  
SURVEY REVEALED ONLY DAMAGE WAS TO A COUPLE OF TREES. THE TORNADO  
WAS SIGHTED BY TRAINED STORM SPOTTER / PUTNAM COUNTY OFFICIAL  
OBSERVING SWIRLING CORN STALKS IN THE AIR NEAR HIS LOCATION.  
  
THE REPORT OF THREE TORNADOES BY OFFICIALS WAS ACTUALLY THIS  
SINGLE TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHING DOWN AND LIFTING SEVERAL TIMES  
OVER A VERY SHORT DISTANCE AND BRIEF TIME SPAN.  

October 31, 1994 Halloween Tornado

I browsed tornado records back to the 1800's and could only find 1 Halloween tornado.  This tornado occurred in Johnson county in 1994 and was a brief F0 with a path length of about one tenth of a mile.  The tornado heavily damaged a barn and threw the debris into a nearby house.  An outbuilding near the barn was lifted off its anchored foundation, turned 90 degrees and deposited intact 10 feet from its foundation.

October 24, 2001 Tornado Outbreak

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the October 24, 2001 tornado outbreak.  This event produced 9 tornadoes in the state, killing 2 and injuring 19.

The first tornado, rated EF0, touched down in northern Warren county at 2:46 PM local time.  It was tracked by storm spotters and was on the ground for approximately one tenth of a mile and caused no damage.

The first in a series of several tornadoes to strike the northern part of the state struck La Porte county around 3:15 PM.  This twister sliced across the county from southwest to northeast and was up to a mile wide.  One woman was killed when her mobile home was destroyed. 

The next tornado touched down just southwest of Crumstown in St. Joseph county and moved northeast.  The most significant damage was across Crumstown, where EF3 damage with a path width up to 3/4 mile occurred. The tornado then moved to near the Michiana Regional Airport and across the Indiana Toll Road.  Two men were injured northwest of South Bend. One man later died from his injuries. 

Another tornado, an EF2 up to three quarters of a mile wide, touched down southeast of Mishawaka.  A separate EF1 tornado touched down about 4 miles northwest of Osceola.

An EF1 tornado touched down in extreme southeastern Marshall county and moved northeast across Kosciusko county and into Noble county where the tornado dissipated near Rome City.  The worst damage was north of Warsaw where 14 people were hurt at a factory when a wall collapsed.

The last tornado to strike northern Indiana touched down in Noble county east of Kendallville.  It produced some damage to homes and warehouses in and near the Kendallville East Industrial park.  The tornado then moved northeast into Dekalb county where EF2 damage occurred around Fairfield Center with significant damage to homes. Then tornado moved southeast of Ashley and then moved into Steuben county doing damage to a barn before lifting north of Steubenville.

Two other tornadoes hit southern Indiana.  An EF0 briefly touched down in Petersburg.  Two houses were unroofed and their windows were blown out.  Two car windshields were shattered by blowing debris.  Metal siding was deposited in power lines. The walls of two businesses were knocked down or cracked. 

The last tornado touched down at 5:29 PM.  It was an EF1 which struck northeast of Williams in Lawrence county, blowing off the roofs of 2 barns and a house.

October Tornadoes Per County Since 1950