Tornadoes · United States · Indiana · 2025

EF0 tornado, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, June 13, 2025

This EF0 tornado ran 1.3 miles across Vanderburgh County on June 13, 2025, touching down at 4:09 PM CDT and reaching 25 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $150,000 of property damage.

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 13, 2025
Touchdown
4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
Lifted
4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
On the ground
2 minutes
Path length
1.3 miles (2.1 km)
Path width
25 yards (23 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$150,000
County
Vanderburgh County
Touchdown point
37.973, -87.620
Lift-off point
37.979, -87.597
Record number
2506131509-01

The damage survey

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

  • Construction barricades blown down.
  • Large branch fell on house.

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

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
21:17 UTC21:45 UTCSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH
21:41 UTC00:45 UTCFlood AdvisoryPAH
21:59 UTC03:00 UTCFlash Flood WarningPAH
22:53 UTC02:45 UTCFlash Flood WarningPAH
23:13 UTC03:15 UTCFlash Flood WarningPAH

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. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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.

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), 12:00Z

9.2 hours before the tornado, 224 km from the path. June 13, 2025.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2025-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 828 joules per kilogram, CIN -40, lifted condensation level 785 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2025-06-13The 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 69 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 24 knots.193958Sfc1 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
828 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Surface CAPE
603 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3
0-3 km lapse rate
5.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), 00:00Z

2.8 hours after it, 224 km from the path. June 14, 2025.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2025-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 68 joules per kilogram, CIN -128, lifted condensation level 1013 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2025-06-14The 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 163 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 31 knots.193958Sfc1 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Surface CAPE
837 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3
0-3 km lapse rate
5.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:06 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
21:09 UTCTSTM WND DMG4 W EvansvilleVanderburgh, INMultiple large trees uprooted and fallen onto homes.
21:09 UTCTORNADO4 W EvansvilleVanderburgh, INA brief EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph began along south Tekoppel Ave. on the westside of Evansville, IN, on Friday afternoon. Moving northeast, the tornado uprooted trees near Edgewood and Hillcrest. L
22:04 UTCFLASH FLOOD4 W EvansvilleVanderburgh, INCar stuck in flood waters on the west side of Evansville. Picture shows 3-5 inches of water on the road.
22:22 UTCFLASH FLOOD4 Sw ElberfeldVanderburgh, INWater rescue near 15401 Petersburg Rd.
22:38 UTCFLASH FLOOD1 Nw Melody HillVanderburgh, INReport from mPING: Street/road flooding; Street/road closed; Vehicles stranded.
22:53 UTCFLASH FLOOD2 Nnw Melody HillVanderburgh, INWater covering SR 57 near Evansville Regional Airport.
23:12 UTCFLASH FLOOD3 Nw Melody HillVanderburgh, INReport from mPING: Street/road flooding; Street/road closed; Vehicles stranded.
23:25 UTCFLASH FLOOD3 W EvansvilleVanderburgh, INStreets and parking lots covered with at least one stranded vehicle at St Joseph Ave/W Indiana St.
23:26 UTCFLASH FLOOD3 Nw Melody HillVanderburgh, INNeighborhoods off of Strawberry Hill Rd including Midway Drive have water almost higher than the mailboxes in spots.
23:33 UTCFLASH FLOOD3 Nw EvansvilleVanderburgh, INWidespread flooding at N First Ave and West Buena Vista Rd with multiple cars in a parking lot taking on high water.

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

This ground now

The live radar over the trackEvery 2025 tornado in IndianaEvery tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in Indiana nowThe forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 13, 2025

4 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 134:10 PM MDTUnratedAdams, CO0.110
June 137:04 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne, NE0.110
June 137:10 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne, NE0.110
June 137:24 PM MDTUnratedCheyenne, NE0.110

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.