Tornadoes · United States · Indiana

2023 tornadoes in Indiana

53 tornadoes touched down in Indiana in 2023, 134 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 3 people and injured 6.

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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 2023

February 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 27	1:28 PM EST	EF1	Hancock	5.2	50			$200,000
February 27	1:37 PM EST	EF1	Hancock	0.3	50			$50,000

March 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 3	12:38 PM CST	EF1	Vanderburgh	2.8	100	$150,000
March 3	12:45 PM CST	EF0	Vanderburgh	2.1	50	$25,000
March 3	1:07 PM CST	EF1	Spencer	5.3	100	$50,000
March 3	2:11 PM EST	EF1	Dubois	7.3	400
March 3	3:29 PM EST	EF1	Jefferson	1.7	120

March 31 22 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	9:33 PM EDT	EF2	Benton	11.5	400
March 31	9:33 PM EDT	EF2	Benton	15.2	500
March 31	9:41 PM EDT	EF1	Benton	10.2	500
March 31	8:53 PM CDT	EF1	Lake	3.2	325
March 31	9:55 PM EDT	EF0	White	1.3	125
March 31	9:01 PM CDT	EF0	Porter	0.6	125
March 31	10:13 PM EDT	EF1	Cass	1.7	300
March 31	10:43 PM EDT	EF0	Montgomery	1.8	50			$130,000
March 31	10:43 PM EDT	EF2	Montgomery	10.6	100			$875,000
March 31	11:01 PM EDT	EF3	Sullivan tornado	5.9	400	2	2	$2.6 million
March 31	11:11 PM EDT	EF0	Howard	0.9	10			$150,000
March 31	11:12 PM EDT	EF2	Morgan	8.6	200			$7.5 million
March 31	11:15 PM EDT	EF0	Howard	0.1	10			$150,000
March 31	11:20 PM EDT	EF1	Howard	6.3	25		1	$900,000
March 31	11:27 PM EDT	EF0	Johnson	1.9	25			$800,000
March 31	11:33 PM EDT	EF2	Grant	3.1	150
March 31	11:33 PM EDT	EF3	Whiteland tornado	5.5	316			$6.7 million
March 31	11:36 PM EDT	EF2	Allen	7.9	400
March 31	11:42 PM EDT	EF3	Grant	6.3	200
March 31	11:44 PM EDT	EF0	Allen	1.1	75
March 31	12:19 AM EDT	EF0	Jay	1.5	175
March 31	12:20 AM EDT	EF0	Jay	2.4	100

April 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	11:58 AM EDT	EF0	Montgomery	0.3	20	$50,000
April 5	2:42 PM CDT	EF0	Spencer	3.0	25	$25,000
April 5	3:14 PM CDT	EF1	Perry	0.8	70

May 7 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
May 7	8:42 AM EDT	EF1	Floyd	0.1	100
May 7	8:46 AM EDT	EF0	Floyd	0.4	150
May 7	8:48 AM EDT	EF1	Floyd	0.3	125	2
May 7	8:52 AM EDT	EF1	Floyd	0.4	100
May 7	7:57 AM CDT	EF1	Floyd to KY	4.5	200

May 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	5:54 PM EDT	Unrated	Carroll	3.1	25

June 25 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 25	4:12 PM EDT	EF2	Johnson	5.4	400			$1.2 million
June 25	4:21 PM EDT	EF1	Daviess	3.7	100			$400,000
June 25	4:30 PM EDT	EF1	Monroe	4.5	100			$450,000
June 25	4:34 PM EDT	EF2	Martin	9.1	565	1	1	$1.1 million

July 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 28	11:49 PM CDT	EF0	Newton	1.2	20
July 28	11:54 PM CDT	EF0	Newton	0.6	30

July 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 29	2:19 AM EDT	EF0	Cass	2.1	50
July 29	2:26 AM EDT	EF0	Whitley	2.7	150			$60,000

August 6 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
August 6	12:24 AM EDT	EF1	Dubois	25.9	200
August 6	12:45 AM EDT	EF1	Orange	1.0	40
August 6	12:53 AM EDT	EF1	Orange	8.7	175
August 6	12:53 AM EDT	EF0	Orange	0.6	60
August 6	12:53 AM EDT	EF1	Orange	1.0	110
August 6	1:13 AM EDT	EF1	Washington	1.8	60

August 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 14	6:32 PM EDT	EF0	Franklin	2.8	150			$70,000

Crossed into Indiana

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

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	8:58 PM CDT	EF3	Robinson tornado, Illinois and Indiana	40.9	700	6	16	$18 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.