EF0 tornado, Valley City to Central, Indiana, June 21, 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 21, 2026

Touchdown

10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)

Lifted

10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.8 miles (1.4 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Harrison County

Touchdown point

38.097, -86.195

Lift-off point

38.094, -86.180

Highest wind the damage implies

85 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LMK

The office's name for it

Harrison County, IN

Survey last edited

June 24, 2026

Record number

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

The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Harrison County, Indiana and determined a small EF0 tornado occurred west of Central, IN. Maximum winds were 85 mph and a max path width of 100 yards.

While most damage in southern Harrison County was consistent with straight line wind damage, a small area west of the town of Central had indications of rotation. A home and farm north of Hisey Road and along Ripperdan Valley Road SW had extensive barn roof damage, as well as damage to a garage. While the straight line wind damage was consistently going toward the southeast direction, the damages to the barn and garage were going to the west and southwest toward the center of the tornado passage. Some barn material and barn doors were lofted over the barn, the home, and dropped in the front yard. There was also impalement of wood planks in the backyard in the northeast direction. Several rotational directions were noted on the property consistent with a small EF0 tornado that formed along the leading edge of the thunderstorm squall line.

The tornado continued with sporadic damage into a nearby tree line where there was damage leaning toward the southwest on the north side of the track, and tree damage leaning toward the northeast on the south side of the track, evident of being pulled into a circulation center along Hisey Road. Beyond Hisey Road, several trees and barns had damage near and southeast of Central along Watson Road, Old Goshen Road, and Rehobeth Road. All damages beyond Hisey Road west of Central were in the south to southeast direction, consistent with straight line wind damage.

The National Weather Service would like to thank Harrison County Emergency Management for the help with the damage survey, along with the many helpful homeowners who shared pictures, stories, and access to their properties.

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

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

• Several trees damaged here
• Barn door lifted over vehicles nearby and landed in front yard
• New barn framing destroyed
• Several trees snapped here in the woods

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

On the night of June 21st, 2026 and into the early morning of June 22nd, 2026, a Mesoscale Convective System moved through southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. This system brought multiple lines of storms and some supercells. Several tornadoes occurred along with flash flooding.

The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Harrison County, Indiana and determined a small EF0 tornado occurred west of Central, IN. Maximum winds were 85 mph and a max path width of 100 yards.||While most damage in southern Harrison County was consistent with straight line wind damage, a small area west of the town of Central had indications of rotation. A home and farm north of Hisey Road and along Ripperdan Valley Road SW had extensive barn roof damage, as well as damage to a garage. While the straight line wind damage |was consistently going toward the southeast direction, the damages to the barn and garage were going to the west and southwest toward the center of the tornado passage. Some barn material and barn doors were lofted over the barn, the home, and dropped in the front yard. There was also impalement of wood planks in the backyard in the northeast direction. Several rotational directions were noted on the property consistent with a small EF0 tornado that formed along the leading edge of the thunderstorm squall line. The tornado continued with sporadic damage into a nearby tree line where there was damage leaning toward the southwest on the north side|of the track, and tree damage leaning toward the northeast on the south side of the track, evident of being pulled into a circulation center along Hisey Road. Beyond Hisey Road, several trees and barns had damage near and southeast of Central along|Watson Road, Old Goshen Road, and Rehobeth Road. All damages beyond Hisey Road west of Central were in the south to southeast direction, consistent with straight line wind damage.

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

23 minutes of warning. NWS LMK issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:30 UTC, 23 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 00:18 UTC and running to 03:49 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 01:12 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 Louisville radar (KLVX), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:55 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

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

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.