First of all, no, we didn’t have any damage, and we’re all fine. But I was checking out this National Weather Service story, which indicated that an EF1 tornado touched down briefly only about a quarter mile north of our house during the storms we had Friday night.
Here’s an excerpt:
Damage patterns indicate that at least one brief tornado did occur just to the northwest of Marion, Indiana in Grant county. A EF1 tornado touched down around 733 pm EDT in a heavily forested area just south of the 4 Mile Bridge, west of State Route 15 and lifted immediately just across the road at 735 pm EDT. Damage was confined to mature trees and roof damage with a peak width of 50 yards and a path length just shy of two tenths of a mile. Extensive tree damage and terrain prevented a more accurate assessment of the path length. Winds were estimated between 90 and 100 mph. Wind speeds of a EF1 range from 86 to 109 mph on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale).
The tornado mentioned above appeared to have occurred coincident with a microburst wind event which originated to the southwest in a subdivision north of West Harreld Road and west of Frances Slocum Trail. This wind swath widened out to three quarters of a mile after it crossed State Route 15 and impacted another subdivision with substantial tree damage. Winds were estimated at between 65 and 85 mph. Additional sporadic wind damage was noted through the remainder of the county, with one more extensive area of straight line wind damage found near the town of Fowlerton. Winds were estimated at up to 75 mph.
We live in the “…other subdivision with substantial tree damage.” The 4 Mile Bridge is only about a quarter to half a mile away from us.
And to think we were just looking out the window at the wind and rain to the north, and never saw the tornado! Maybe we should have been a little further away from the windows…
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