EF1 tornado, Forest City to Dunns Bridge, Indiana, March 10, 2026

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 mphthis tornado

   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

EF1, preliminary

Date

March 10, 2026

Touchdown

7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)

Lifted

8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)

On the ground

23 minutes

Path length

10.5 miles (16.8 km)

Path width

900 yards (823 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

3

County

Jasper County

Touchdown point

41.156, -87.118

Lift-off point

41.211, -86.933

Highest wind the damage implies

110 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LOT

The office's name for it

Wheatfield

Survey last edited

April 16, 2026

Record number

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

This tornado began in Jasper County about 2 miles south of Stoutsburg along CR W 1000 N, where there was damage noted to a solar panel field and power poles. The tornado moved east-northeast, causing damage to a farmstead on CR N 200 W. The most significant damage from this tornado was noted just south of Wheatfield on the 0-100 block of CR W 1100 N and on the 1100 block of State Route 49, where numerous homes sustained considerable damage and numerous trees and power poles were downed. The tornado continued to damage solar panel fields, trees, power poles, and farmsteads as it moved toward the Starke County line, passing through the unincorporated community of Tefft. The tornado dissipated before reaching Starke County on the 500 block of CR E 1350 N.

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

324 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS IWX and NWS LOT, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 115 mph.

• Softwood tree snapped a few feet above the ground. Damage direction to the north.
• Section of roof removed, portion of exterior wall partially collapsed. Window broken.
• Shift shifted off foundation, rolled into trees, and landed upside down mostly intact. Movement generally northward. Scattered debris in trees and a few broken branches in vicinity.
• Section of roof removed. Windows broken. AC unit shifted.

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

A powerful supercell thunderstorm tracked an EF-3 tornado across northern Newton and northwestern Jasper counties and another EF-1 tornado through northern Jasper County during the evening of March 10th. The EF-3 destroyed a number of homes and caused significant damage to many other homes, businesses, and infrastructure, especially in the town of Lake Village where two fatalities occurred as a result of the storm. Additional severe thunderstorms later in the evening brought one inch hail to northern Lake and Porter counties.

A destructive EF-3 tornado was nearing the end of its lifecycle upon briefly moving into northwest Jasper County and dissipated shortly thereafter. After forming in Kankakee County and causing EF-3 caliber damage in Kankakee and Newton counties, this tornado crossed into far northwestern Jasper County between W 1100 N Road and W 1200 N Road. Along N 1200 W Road just east of I-65, a continuous corridor of trees was entirely uprooted, a few outbuildings were damaged, and the roof was removed from a house. In the community of Forest City, a continuous corridor of trees was uprooted, and a few residences had shingles removed. The tornado diminished in intensity as it moved northeast toward N 1100 W Road, and then dissipated just south of the intersection of N 1100 W Road and W 1300 N Road. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and around a dozen injuries, though none reported in Jasper County. The damage sustained in Jasper County was found to be on the order of EF-1 strength.

An EF-1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 110 mph tracked across northern Jasper County south of Stoutsburg, Wheatfield, and Dunns Bridge. This tornado began about 2 miles south of Stoutsburg along CR W 1000 N, where there was damage noted to a solar panel field and power poles. The tornado moved east-northeast, causing damage to a farmstead on CR N 200 W. The most significant damage from this tornado was noted just south of Wheatfield on the 0-100 block of CR W 1100 N and on the 1100 block of State Route 49, where numerous homes sustained considerable damage and numerous trees and power poles were downed. The tornado continued to damage solar panel fields, trees, power poles, and farmsteads as it moved toward the Starke County line, passing through the unincorporated community of Tefft. The tornado dissipated before reaching Starke County on the 500 block of CR E 1350 N. Three minor injuries were reported with the tornado.

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

34 minutes of warning. NWS LOT issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:09 UTC, 34 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 01:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 20:57 UTC and running to 04:00 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 19:50 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 Chicago radar (KLOT), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:43 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

20 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.