EF1 tornado, Six Pts, Indiana, June 24, 2014

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 24, 2014

Touchdown

2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)

Lifted

2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

2.8 miles (4.6 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$1.5 million

Counties

Hendricks and Marion counties

Touchdown point

39.726, -86.350

Lift-off point

39.749, -86.306

Record number

1406241232-01

5 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS IND, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 98 mph.

• Camper from home to the west thrown onto this house. Camper traveled through the air in a semi circle about 175ft.
• Multiple homes in area experienced loss of shingles and siding. Debris embedded into east facing walls indicatiing rotation.
• Approx. 200 vehicles damaged

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

During the afternoon of June 24th, thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front and area of low pressure. One of the storms began to rotate, and the storm eventually produced 3 tornadoes across central Indiana between 1:15 PM and 2:45 PM EDT. Two of the tornadoes were rated EF-1, with the other EF-0.

A weak tornado of EF-1 intensity and winds estimated from 90 to 100 mph caused damage along an approximate three-mile path in Plainfield and Indianapolis. The tornado touched down near Perry Road and US40 in Plainfield at approximately 2:32 PM EDT. The first significant damage occurred at a vehicle auction facility with one building heavily damaged and over 200 cars impacted by flying debris. Minor straight-line wind tree damage was observed west of the auction facility near Township Line Road and Smith Road. The tornado traveled northeast causing damage to nearly two dozen homes in Hendricks County with the most severe damage along County Road 200 South near County Road 1050 East. At this location the tornado lofted a camping trailer into the air and tossed it approximately 175 feet to the east onto a house and also removed a substantial portion of that houses roof. This damage was rated EF-1 with winds estimated at 95 to 100 mph. ||The tornado continued tracking northeast through the Bentwood subdivision in east Hendricks County and into the Cameron Meadows subdivision of Indianapolis. At approximately 2:38 PM EDT, the most significant damage occurred as the tornado moved into Marion County and Indianapolis, along Raceway Road near Blue Pine Drive, where a couple homes had portions of their roofs removed by the tornado. This damage was rated EF-1 with winds estimated near 97 mph. The tornado lifted at approximately 2:42 PM EDT northeast of this subdivision though intermittent straight-line wind damage to trees occurred from here to near Rockville Road and I-465 all the way to the town of Speedway.||Indianapolis officials estimated 75 to 100 homes received at least minor damage in Indianapolis. Also, including the automobiles damaged at the auto auction center, more than 200 vehicles sustained varying degrees of damage.

A weak tornado of EF-1 intensity and winds estimated from 90 to 100 mph caused damage along an approximate three-mile path in Plainfield and Indianapolis. The tornado touched down near Perry Road and US40 in Plainfield at approximately 2:32 PM EDT. The first significant damage occurred at a vehicle auction facility with one building heavily damaged and over 200 cars impacted by flying debris. Minor straight-line wind tree damage was observed west of the auction facility near Township Line Road and Smith Road. The tornado traveled northeast causing damage to nearly two dozen homes in Hendricks County with the most severe damage along County Road 200 South near County Road 1050 East. At this location the tornado lofted a camping trailer into the air and tossed it approximately 175 feet to the east onto a house and also removed a substantial portion of that houses roof. This damage was rated EF-1 with winds estimated at 95 to 100 mph. ||The tornado continued tracking northeast through the Bentwood subdivision in east Hendricks County and into the Cameron Meadows subdivision of Indianapolis. At approximately 2:38 PM EDT, the most significant damage occurred as the tornado moved into Marion County and Indianapolis, along Raceway Road near Blue Pine Drive, where a couple homes had portions of their roofs removed by the tornado. This damage was rated EF-1 with winds estimated near 97 mph. The tornado lifted at approximately 2:42 PM EDT northeast of this subdivision though intermittent straight-line wind damage to trees occurred from here to near Rockville Road and I-465 all the way to the town of Speedway.||Indianapolis officials estimated 75 to 100 homes received at least minor damage in Indianapolis. Also, including the automobiles damaged at the auto auction center, more than 200 vehicles sustained varying degrees of damage.

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

4 minutes of warning. NWS IND issued a tornado warning for this county at 18:28 UTC, 4 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 18:49 UTC.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 16:20 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), 5 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 18:30 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 2014 tornado in IndianaEvery tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in Indiana nowThe forecast where you are

2 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.