EF1 tornado, Park to Shawswich, Indiana, June 3, 2008

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 3, 2008

Touchdown

11:10 AM EDT (15:10 UTC)

Lifted

11:40 AM EDT (15:40 UTC)

On the ground

30 minutes

Path length

27.1 miles (43.7 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

1

Property damage

$170,000

Counties

Greene and Lawrence counties

Touchdown point

39.030, -86.880

Lift-off point

38.911, -86.400

Record number

0806030910-01

Severe weather and torrential downpours began to move through during the morning hours and continued into the early afternoon hours. Flash flooding, damaging winds, and tornadoes all occurred with this system as it moved through.

The tornado began in Greene County at 1010 EST approximately three miles east of Bloomfield, 200 meters north of Ore Branch Road, and 200 meters south of State Road 54. The tornado tracked 11.32 miles to the southeast before exiting Greene County. The tornado exited Greene County at 1027 and entered Lawrence County while passing through a grove of trees located 4,000 feet east of State Road 54, 4,000 feet north of State Road 54, and 6,500 feet west of Popcorn Church Road. The tornado continued to the southeast in Lawrence County for 15.83 miles until lifting at 1040 EST. The tornado was rated EF-1 while in both counties with a width of 100 yards. The total time on the ground was 40 minutes and 27.15 miles. Residences, trees, and barns were damaged in both counties with fifty thousand dollars of damage occurring in Greene County and 120,000 thousand dollars in damage occurring in Lawrence County. A school was also damaged in Greene County. One male was injured with a broken foot when debris landed on his foot in Lawrence County. Wind speeds were around 100 miles per hour.

The tornado began in Greene County at 1010 EST approximately three miles east of Bloomfield, 200 meters north of Ore Branch Road, and 200 meters south of State Road 54. The tornado tracked 11.32 miles to the southeast before exiting Greene County. The tornado exited Greene County at 1027 and entered Lawrence County while passing through a grove of trees located 4,000 feet east of State Road 54, 4,000 feet north of State Road 54, and 6,500 feet west of Popcorn Church Road. The tornado continued to the southeast in Lawrence County for 15.83 miles until lifting at 1040 EST. The tornado was rated EF-1 while in both counties with a width of 100 yards. The total time on the ground was 40 minutes and 27.15 miles. Residences, trees, and barns were damaged in both counties with fifty thousand dollars of damage occurring in Greene County and 120,000 thousand dollars in damage occurring in Lawrence County. A school was also damaged in Greene County. One male was injured with a broken foot when debris landed on his foot in Lawrence County. Wind speeds were around 100 miles per hour.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.15 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 13:00 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 88 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 15:10 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2008 tornado in IndianaEvery tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in Indiana nowThe forecast where you are

11 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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