Tornadoes · United States · Indiana

2007 tornadoes in Indiana

19 tornadoes touched down in Indiana in 2007, 16 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Indiana in 2007

April 11 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 11	4:20 PM EDT	EF0	Clay	0.1	50	$3,000
April 11	5:35 PM EDT	EF0	Hendricks	0.1	50
April 11	6:37 PM EDT	EF1	Hendricks	4.9	75	$70,000
April 11	7:25 PM EDT	EF2	Hamilton	4.0	100	$150,000
April 11	7:30 PM EDT	EF1	Tipton	0.1	100	$32,000

April 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	4:08 PM CDT	EF1	LaPorte	0.5	100			$40,000
April 26	4:18 PM CDT	EF1	LaPorte	0.3	450		1	$40,000

May 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	4:45 PM EDT	EF0	Saint Joseph	2.1	50			$13,000
May 15	9:35 PM EDT	EF0	Jennings	0.1	50			$100,000

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	6:30 PM EDT	EF0	Clay	2.5	200			$50,000

July 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Width (yd)
July 26	8:16 PM EDT	EF0	Steuben	50
July 26	8:43 PM EDT	EF0	Steuben	50
July 26	8:52 PM EDT	EF0	Steuben	50

August 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 15	11:15 PM EDT	EF1	Marshall	2.9	50			$500,000

October 18 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 18	6:34 PM CDT	EF1	Perry	8.2	200
October 18	8:35 PM EDT	EF0	Benton	0.4	20
October 18	8:27 PM CDT	EF1	Dubois	1.9	125	$5,000
October 18	10:03 PM EDT	EF3	Clark	4.8	440	$1.0 million
October 18	10:05 PM EDT	EF3	Marshall	20.3	880	$15 million

Nearby

Every tornado in Indiana since 1950 Warnings in force in Indiana The live radar over Indiana

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.