EF0 tornado, Maxville, Indiana, June 11, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

June 11, 2026

Touchdown

11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)

Lifted

11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.3 miles (0.5 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Randolph County

Touchdown point

40.181, -85.111

Lift-off point

40.179, -85.106

Highest wind the damage implies

70 mph

Surveyed by

NWS IND

The office's name for it

Farmland

Survey last edited

June 15, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

A weak tornado touched down in a field northwest of a tree line west of County Road 675N. It then crossed another tree line and traveled through a corn field with drone footage revealing a clear circulation and path within the corn. It then impacted a home north of the intersection of County Road 675N and 100N. It pushed and rotated an RV, ripped off an awning and ripped a 500 gallon propane tank off the concrete block. The drone footage then shows the circulation ends east of 675W.

Written by NWS IND in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

4 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS IND, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 70 mph.

• RV had been rotated from the south to the southeast approximately 70 to 80 degrees. Also a car was moved.
• trailer's awning was ripped off and landed east of the trailer
• A 500-gallon propane tank was partially rolled off the concrete block on which it was.

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

During the 11th evening, a cold front interacted with a warm, moist, and unstable air mass across central and northern Indiana, initiating a fast-moving severe convective line. The synoptic setup supported widespread straight-line wind damage and embedded mesovortices as the squall line tracked eastward through the region between 7:59 PM EST and 10:32 PM EST.||Five tornadoes touched down across Warren, Carroll, Johnson, Shelby, and Randolph counties during the event. Four brief EF-0 tornadoes produced peak winds between 70 mph and 85 mph, causing tree damage and minor agricultural impacts. The most significant tornado was an EF-1 that tracked nearly 12 miles across Johnson and Shelby counties, generating peak winds of 105 mph that damaged several homes, outbuildings, and trees.||Widespread straight-line winds produced the majority of the severe impacts as the line moved across more than a dozen counties. Measured wind gusts frequently ranged from 59 mph to 67 mph, with localized straight-line winds estimated up to 95 mph in Howard County. Damage across the region included widespread downed trees and power lines, overturned commercial vehicles on major highways, and structural damage to roofs, barns, and outbuildings. This severe weather event would be the third of many for the month which would eventually define a formal disaster period from June 6th to the 18th which was declared by the governor of Indiana.

An EF0 tornado with max winds 70 mph tracked 0.32 miles to ESE creating a clear circulation pattern within corn field. Minor damage occurred to a vehicle and awning and propane tank.

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 severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 01:49 UTC and running to 04:25 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 01:00 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), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 03:17 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 2026 tornado in IndianaEvery tornado in Indiana since 1950Warnings in force in Indiana nowThe forecast where you are

65 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

All 66 of them

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.