EF0 tornado, Mt Carmel to Mc Gonigle, Indiana, April 2, 2025

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.

Rating

EF0

Date

April 2, 2025

Touchdown

11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)

Lifted

11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

11.0 miles (17.7 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$150,000

Counties

Franklin and Butler counties

Touchdown point

39.376, -84.866

Lift-off point

39.442, -84.681

Record number

2504022223-01

32 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

• Silos destroyed and blown into field. From facebook video.
• Extensive tree damage within the Pater Wildlife area, visible from Reily Millville Road.
• Outbuilding damage of some walls and roof structure near intersection of Millville Oxford Road and Old Oxford Road.

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

Thunderstorms developed during the late evening hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley.

Thunderstorms developed during the late evening and continued into the overnight hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley.

The first signs of tornadic damage were observed north of Sparks Road near Sharptown, Indiana, where trees were uprooted or snapped. Additional damage to trees was found to the northeast of the start location along Wesley Chapel Road and Drewersburg Road. Minor damage continued along Dickson Road and State Route 252 and tree damage, minor damage to homes, and minor damage to a church were found along State Line Road, Hamilton Scipio Road, and Cincinnati Brookville Road. The tornado crossed the Indiana-Ohio state line into western Butler County, Ohio, just east of Scipio at 2326EST and continued northeast across Butler County, Ohio, before ending near McGonigle, Ohio, at 2333EST.

This tornado developed near Sharptown in Franklin County, Indiana, at 2323EST. It traveled northeast and entered Butler County, Ohio, at 2326EST, just east of Scipio. As it moved northeast through Butler County, tree damage and minor home damage were observed along Hart Road. Homes, outbuildings, and numerous trees were damaged along Dunwoody Road. Additional outbuildings and trees were damaged on Sample Road south of Reily, Ohio. Power poles were also snapped in this area. The northeast track continued into the Pater Wildlife Area, snapping numerous trees and additional trees were damaged along Bunker Hill Woods Road and Stillwell Road. The tornado likely dissipated south of McGonigle, Ohio, near Millville Oxford Road.

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.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:15 UTC and running to 04:50 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 Moderate Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:55 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.

Oxford (OXD), 10 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:20 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 2025 tornado in IndianaEvery tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in Indiana nowThe forecast where you are

87 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

All 88 of them

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.