Tornadoes · United States · Indiana · 2014

EF0 tornado, Plummer to Hashtown, Indiana, June 10, 2014

From Plummer to Hashtown, this EF0 tornado ran 0.5 miles across Greene County on June 10, 2014, touching down at 7:23 PM EDT and reaching 25 yards wide. It killed nobody.

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 mphthis tornado

    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.

The record

Rating
EF0
Date
June 10, 2014
Touchdown
7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
Lifted
7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
On the ground
1 minutes
Path length
0.5 miles (0.8 km)
Path width
25 yards (23 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
County
Greene County
Touchdown point
38.989, -86.940
Lift-off point
38.996, -86.939
Record number
1406101723-01

What the Weather Service recorded

An approaching area of low pressure sent a warm front through central Indiana, increasing low level moisture and lifting a band of showers and thunderstorms through the region during the afternoon and evening of the 10th of June. An EF-0 tornado was also observed south of Bloomfield.

An officer reported a confirmed touchdown near Baseline Road, south of Bloomfield. This EF-0 tornado was on the ground briefly. Little to no damage was observed.

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

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
23:25 UTC23:45 UTCTornado WarningIND
23:28 UTC23:45 UTCTornado WarningIND
23:33 UTC00:00 UTCTornado WarningIND
23:40 UTC00:15 UTCTornado WarningIND
23:59 UTC00:15 UTCTornado WarningIND
00:14 UTC00:45 UTCTornado WarningIND
01:25 UTC04:30 UTCFlood AdvisoryIND

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 forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:56 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 air that afternoon

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.

Lincoln, IL (KILX), 12:00Z

11.4 hours before the tornado, 192 km from the path. June 10, 2014.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2014-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 0 joules per kilogram, CIN -23787, lifted condensation level 637 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2014-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 32 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23787 J/kg
Surface CAPE
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8
0-3 km lapse rate
4.1 K/km

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Lincoln, IL (KILX), 00:00Z

0.6 hours after it, 192 km from the path. June 11, 2014.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2014-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 95 joules per kilogram, CIN -25, lifted condensation level 669 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2014-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 25 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Surface CAPE
709 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2
0-3 km lapse rate
5.7 K/km

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The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 98 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:23 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.

What was reported nearby

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

Time (UTC)ReportWhereCountyRemark
22:30 UTCTSTM WND DMG1 S BicknellKnox, INDAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS...TOPS OF TREES...ONE SMALL TREE DOWN. DAMAGE TO A FENCE. FURNITURE BLOWN OFF A PORCH. TIME APPROXIMATE.
23:18 UTCTORNADO6 S BloomfieldGreene, INLAW ENFORCEMENT RELAYED A PUBLIC REPORT OF A BIG BLACK TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF US 231 AND SR58 MOVING NORTH. TIME APPROXIMATED.
23:23 UTCTORNADOBloomfieldGreene, INOFFICER REPORTS A CONFIRMED TOUCHDOWN NEAR BASELINE ROAD
23:25 UTCTORNADOBloomfieldGreene, INBRIEF TORNADO TOUCH DOWN ALONG BASELINE ROAD SOUTH OF BLOOMFIELD. EF-0 INTENSITY.
01:04 UTCWALL CLOUD1 E BloomfieldGreene, INROTATING WALL CLOUD TO NORTHEAST MOVING NORHTHEAST FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES

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

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of June 10, 2014

2 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 101:44 PM CDTEF1Jackson, AL8.4300
June 105:06 PM EDTEF0Roane, TN0.5100$50,000

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.