EF2 tornado, Moonsville to Summitville, Indiana, April 2, 2025

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 mphthis tornado

   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

EF2

Date

April 2, 2025

Touchdown

9:57 PM EDT (01:57 UTC)

Lifted

10:17 PM EDT (02:17 UTC)

On the ground

20 minutes

Path length

15.2 miles (24.4 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$3.2 million

County

Madison County

Touchdown point

40.188, -85.594

Lift-off point

40.319, -85.376

Record number

2504021957-01

47 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS IND and NWS IWX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 132 mph.

• Roof damage to swine barn and egg laying facility 6650 W and 6602 W 900 S Ridgeville. These addresses are on the same farm.
• Most damage to north northeast here,
• Two large pole barns with wood posts and no anchoring to any concrete foundation. Debris being cleaned up but most walls were down on both buildings. Nearby outbuilding lost roof and tossed about 75 yards intact to southeast.
• Nearby house has shingles lifted. 100yds away a few large tree limbs down and some debris into a small barn.

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

A strong low pressure system generated a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that started in Illinois and moved across central Indiana. Multiple severe storms were embedded within the line and some of these produced tornadoes. Eleven tornadoes impacted central Indiana, ten of which occurred along an overall west-southwest to east-northeast area from north of Terre Haute to north of Muncie. Four of these events, from Hendricks County to Delaware County, were secondary tornadoes that tracked parallel to longer duration tornadoes. Three tornadoes combined to impact western and northern portions of the Indianapolis Metro area, including an EF2 in Hendricks County that caused the episode's only injury. In addition to the tornadoes widespread wind damage occurred with gusts over 80+ mph reported.

This ninth tornado to impact central Indiana was the fourth of five tornadoes spawned within Madison County and Delaware County. This longer tornado tracked from far east-central Madison County to north-central Delaware County. The circulation's track exhibited an overall curled path from northeasterly to east-northeasterly, which then turned back north-northeastward over the final segment. Spawned near the Moonville community, the tornado caused significant damage to a two-story house and completely destroyed three old and weakly-anchored outbuildings, additionally a large old barn was shifted off its foundation and the northern half of roof was thrown well to the north-northeast. This tornado continued northeast with sporadic damage to numerous structures all the way up to just west of Eaton. Greatest damage occurred at a farm with a large grain operation on North Walnut Street near County Road 800 North, where more than two million dollars of damage was inflicted on various and numerous structures. The tornado's peak wind gusts were 125 mph.

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

12 minutes of warning. NWS IND issued a tornado warning for this county at 01:45 UTC, 12 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:16 UTC and running to 04:17 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 0.15 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.

Muncie (MIE), 8 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:58 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.