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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
845 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2025
..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 05/16/25 TORNADO EVENT
GREENE COUNTY
RATING: EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 128 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 14.04 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 200 YARDS
FATALITIES: 1
INJURIES: 3
START DATE: 05/16/2025
START TIME: 06:44 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 2 SE DUGGER / GREENE COUNTY / IN
START LAT/LON: 39.0455 / -87.2264
END DATE: 05/16/2025
END TIME: 07:06 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 3 SSE WORTHINGTON / GREENE COUNTY / IN
END LAT/LON: 39.0719 / -86.9712
SURVEY SUMMARY:
AN NWS DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM FOUND EF1 TORNADO DAMAGE IN EXTREME WEST
CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY, APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINTON
ALONG COUNTY ROAD 150 NORTH. THIS DAMAGE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A
LONG LIVED SUPERCELL FROM FRIDAY NIGHT, THAT BEGAN IN ILLINOIS AND
CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN INTO A TORNADIC SUPERCELL IN GREENE
COUNTY, THEN CONTINUED EAST INTO MONROE COUNTY.
THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AND DAMAGED MANY LARGE HARDWOOD TREES AND A BARN
DOOR WAS BLOWN IN AND SOME ROOF DAMAGE TO A FEW HOMES. A FATALITY
AND THREE INJURIES OCCURRED NEAR COUNTY ROAD 150 NORTH AND 1500
WEST WHEN A LARGE TREE FELL ON A VEHICLE. THE TORNADO STRENGTHENED
AS IT CONTINUED NORTHEAST CROSSING HIGHWAY 54 SOUTH OF THE TOWN
OF HOOSIER, WHERE ADDITIONAL STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO NUMEROUS HOMES
WAS FOUND ALONG WITH NUMEROUS LARGE TREES THAT HAD BEEN EITHER
SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AND
STRENGTHENED TO PRODUCING EF2 DAMAGE APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE EAST OF
HIGHWAY 54 NORTH OF LINTON. SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS
FOUND TO SEVERAL HOMES, WITH ONE BRICK BASED HOME SEEING THE
ENTIRE ROOF REMOVED AND A WALL COLLAPSED. SEVERAL OTHER HOMES IN
THIS AREA HAD EXTENSIVE ROOF DAMAGE.
FROM HERE, THE TORNADO CONTINUED A MORE EASTERLY MOVEMENT WITH CONTINUED
EF2 DAMAGE TO SEVERAL STRUCTURES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF SWITZ CITY.
ONE RESIDENCE HAD CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WITH SOME ANCHORING NOTED TO
ONE OF THE WALLS. AT THIS POINT THE WIDTH OF THE TORNADO WAS
BETWEEN 100 TO 200 YARDS WIDE.
THE CONTINUOUS DESTRUCTION TO TREES AND ROOFS OF HOMES WAS FOUND,
THROUGH THE CONSIDERABLE RIDGES AND VALLEYS SOUTH OF WORTHINGTON
WITH EF1 DAMAGE IN THOSE LOCATIONS AS THE TORNADO BEGAN TO
DEMONSTRATE SOME WEAKENING, THEN LIFTING BEFORE REACHING THE
COMMUNITY OF TULIP.
MONROE/BROWN/BARTHOLOMEW COUNTIES
RATING: EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 128 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 35.27 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 350 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 05/16/2025
START TIME: 07:27 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 9 SSW ELLETTSVILLE / MONROE COUNTY / IN
START LAT/LON: 39.106 / -86.6783
END DATE: 05/16/2025
END TIME: 08:11 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 7 SW COLUMBUS / BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY / IN
END LAT/LON: 39.1523 / -86.0246
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN WEST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY AND DAMAGED
MANY TREES ALONG WITH SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE UP UNTIL IT
REACHED ROUTE 45 AND SOUTH ELWREN ROAD. HERE THE TORNADO HIT A
LARGE HORSE BARN, REMOVING THE SOUTH AND EAST WALLS ALONG WITH THE
ENTIRE ROOF. THE MAIN VERTICAL WOODEN POSTS SUPPORTING THE
BUILDING WERE BROKEN, BUT THE WALLS THAT WERE LOST WERE NOT
ANCHORED TO THE DIRT FOUNDATION, THUS A WEAKER RATING TO THIS
BUILDING.
THE TORNADO CONTINUED EAST INTO THE CLEAR CREEK AREA, DAMAGING MANY
TREES AND CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO HOMES. A POST OFFICE IN CLEAR
CREEK HAD ITS ROOF REMOVED AND THROWN ABOUT 50 YARDS TO THE EAST
NORTHEAST. THIS SMALL BUILDING WAS MADE WITH CINDER BLOCKS AND THE
ONLY ANCHORING WAS BY MORTAR WITH NO REINFORCEMENT. THE BLOCKS CAVED
ON THE EASTERN WALL WHEN THE ROOF WAS PULLED OFF THE STRUCTURE.
ACROSS THE ROAD, NUMEROUS TREES WERE TOPPED OR SNAPPED ABOUT TWO
THIRDS OF THE WAY UP.
FROM HERE, THE TORNADO CONTINUED EAST WITH A NEARLY CONTINUOUS PATH
OF EF0 AND EF1 DAMAGE TO TREES AND STRUCTURES. THE TORNADO THEN
INTENSIFIED AS IT NEARED OLD STATE ROAD 37. HERE TWO
GARAGES/OUTBUILDINGS WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. HOWEVER, THESE
BUILDINGS WERE NOT ANCHORED TO THE CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS. DEBRIS WAS
THROWN NEARLY 100 YARDS AND A METAL STORAGE UNIT WAS LIFTED AND
TOSSED NEARLY 40 YARDS, LANDING ON TOP OF TWO CARS. SINGLE FLOOR
DOUBLE RENTAL UNITS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE TORNADO SUFFERED
SUBSTANTIAL ROOF DAMAGE, AND SEVERAL CARS WERE ROLLED. THE TORNADO
CONTINUED EAST, PULLING AN A FRAME BUILDING SOUTH AND OFF ITS
FOUNDATION WHILE REMAINING INTACT. AN OLDER MOTEL SUFFERED THE LOSS
OF ITS ROOF AND AN EAST SIDE WALL. NUMEROUS TREES BEHIND THE
BUILDING WERE ALSO SNAPPED. THIS IS THE LOCATION OF THE EF2 DAMAGE.
THE TORNADO WAS ALSO AT ITS WIDEST IN MONROE COUNTY AT 250 YARDS.
THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO TRAVEL EAST ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE
COUNTY WITH DAMAGE TO TREES AND SOME BUILDINGS WITH EF0 TO EF1
DAMAGE, THEN INTO BROWN COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS LIKELY ON THE
GROUND MOST OF THE TIME THROUGH BROWN COUNTY AND INTO WESTERN
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY. MUCH OF THIS TORNADO MOVED THROUGH VERY DENSE,
WOODED AREAS, OCCASIONALLY HITTING STRUCTURES WITHIN THE PATH.
THIS TORNADO WAS VERY WIDE AT TIMES, NEARING A QUARTER MILE
A DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM FOUND EF2 TORNADO DAMAGE ACROSS THE EASTERN
HALF OF BROWN COUNTY. REPORTS INDICATE THE TORNADO DID QUITE A BIT
OF TREE DAMAGE ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY IN VERY
RURAL AREAS. AFTER REACHING THE BROWN COUNTY STATE PARK, THE
TORNADO APPEARED TO INTENSIFY AND WIDEN SUBSTANTIALLY, WITH
SIGNIFICANT TREE DAMAGE ALONG A LONG PATH FROM WELL WEST OF
HORSEMAN CAMP ROAD, OVER A RIDGE AND INTO HORSEMAN CAMP WHERE
SEVERAL CAMPERS WERE STAYING WHEN THE TORNADO HIT. TREES WERE
SNAPPED NEAR THE BASE AS WELL AS UPROOTED, WITH VERY FEW LEFT
STANDING ALL ALONG THIS OBSERVABLE PATH. AT THIS LOCATION THE
TORNADO WAS ABOUT 300 TO 350 YARDS WIDE THROUGH THE CAMP.
WITNESSES AND LOCAL OFFICIALS INDICATED THAT THIS WIDE PATH OF
DESTRUCTION WAS CONTINUOUS THROUGH THE RIDGES AND VALLEYS FROM THE
WEST TO THE EAST, UP TO AT LEAST MOUNT LIBERTY ROAD. AROUND THIS
LOCATION, THE TORNADO BECAME SMALLER IN WIDTH AND REMAINING DAMAGE
WAS MOSTLY TO TREES, WITH EF0 TO EF1 DAMAGE TO ANY STRUCTURES IN
THE PATH.
THE TORNADO CONTINUED INTO WESTERN BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY WITH MOSTLY TREE
DAMAGE AND A PATH WIDTH OF 100-200 YARDS. THE TORNADO MOVED THROUGH
THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF GRANDVIEW LAKE WITH SUBSTANTIAL TREE DAMAGE AND
SOME EF0 AND ONE EF1 DAMAGE POINT. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO WEAKEN AND
FINALLY ENDED JUST EAST OF GRANDVIEW LAKE.
SULLIVAN
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 80 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.85 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 05/16/2025
START TIME: 07:53 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 1 ENE YORK / SULLIVAN COUNTY / IL
START LAT/LON: 39.1731 / -87.6199
END DATE: 05/16/2025
END TIME: 07:55 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 2 E YORK / SULLIVAN COUNTY / IL
END LAT/LON: 39.1734 / -87.6041
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A WEAKENING TORNADO CROSSED THE WABASH RIVER FROM CLARK COUNTY
ILLINOIS AND THE TOWN OF YORK, UPROOTING AND KNOCKING OVER TREES
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 600 NORTH AND 1100 WEST TO
THE SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF FAIRBANKS. DAMAGE TO THE TREES WAS
CONSISTENT WITH A HIGH END EF0 TORNADO.
PUTNAM
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 85 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.43 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 20 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 05/16/2025
START TIME: 07:58 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 5 ENE CARBON / PUTNAM COUNTY / IN
START LAT/LON: 39.6069 / -87.0044
END DATE: 05/16/2025
END TIME: 08:00 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 6 ENE CARBON / PUTNAM COUNTY / IN
END LAT/LON: 39.6101 / -86.9975
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A WEAK TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN IN FAR WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTY,
JUST TO THE WEST OF COUNTY ROAD 800 WEST AND SOUTH OF A SET OF
RAILROAD TRACKS. NUMEROUS TREES WERE UPROOTED OR FELLED WITHIN A
DENSER AREA OF VEGETATION AND PARALLELED THE RAILROAD TRACKS FOR
UNDER A HALF MILE. DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH A HIGHER END EF0.
EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE
FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
EF0.....65 TO 85 MPH
EF1.....86 TO 110 MPH
EF2.....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3.....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4.....166 TO 200 MPH
EF5.....>200 MPH
NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND PUBLICATION IN
NWS STORM DATA.
NWS INDIANAPOLIS THANKS OUR PARTNERS IN COUNTY AND STATE EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO PROVIDED US WITH VIDEO AND
REPORTS AND GUIDED US ON OUR SURVEYS SATURDAY AND TODAY.
LASHLEY/BEACHLER/UPDIKE/MELO/RYAN
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