Tornadoes · United States · Indiana

2014 tornadoes in Indiana

27 tornadoes touched down in Indiana in 2014, 19 percent above 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.

  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 mph

    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.

Every tornado in Indiana in 2014

February 20 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
February 207:40 PM ESTEF0Montgomery7.540$75,000
February 209:32 PM ESTEF0Rush0.025$12,000
February 2010:14 PM ESTEF1Ripley0.850$100,000

June 10 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 107:23 PM EDTEF0Greene0.525

June 24 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 241:15 PM EDTEF0Owen0.575$12,000
June 241:30 PM EDTEF1Morgan0.375$10,000
June 242:32 PM EDTEF1Hendricks2.875$1.5 million

June 30 18 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 3010:38 PM CDTEF1Lake3.8260$86,000
June 3010:39 PM CDTEF1Lake3.2370
June 3010:42 PM CDTEF1Lake2.2315$28,000
June 3010:42 PM CDTEF1Newton13.2395$180,000
June 3010:44 PM CDTEF2Lake3.2295$250,000
June 3010:46 PM CDTEF1Lake2.1185$25,000
June 3010:56 PM CDTEF1Jasper1.9100$10,000
June 3011:11 PM CDTEF1LaPorte0.3200
June 3011:24 PM CDTEF1LaPorte4.7200
June 3011:25 PM CDTEF1Starke4.9400
June 3011:29 PM CDTEF1Starke4.8400
June 3012:35 AM EDTEF1Marshall6.8150
June 3012:41 AM EDTEF1Marshall0.250
June 301:06 AM EDTEF1Kosciusko0.6150
June 301:06 AM EDTEF0Kosciusko1.850
June 301:08 AM EDTEF1Wabash7.0150
June 301:22 AM EDTEF1Whitley0.550
June 301:38 AM EDTEF1LaGrange0.950

October 7 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 76:35 PM EDTEF0Putnam0.150$2,000

October 13 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 135:25 PM CDTEF1Posey3.8150$30,000

Crossed into Indiana

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Indiana. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 3010:29 PM CDTEF1Kankakee, IL to IN15.8175
June 3010:33 PM CDTEF0Lake, IL to IN0.7120
June 3010:33 PM CDTEF1Lake, IL to IN8.7415$256,000
June 3010:37 PM CDTEF1Lake, IL to IN1.6175

Nearby

Every tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in IndianaThe 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.