A small tornado did some damage in Lafayette late Thursday afternoon. Here is the video from the Security Camera at Wabash National Corporation, southeast of Lafayette, showing the brief EF1 tornado that destroyed a guard shack, shook a construction trailer, and rolled a car over!
EF1 – Tornado Southeast of Lafayette
Here is the video from the Security Camera at Wabash National Corporation, southeast of Lafayette, showing the brief EF1 tornado that destroyed a guard shack, shook a construction trailer, and rolled a car over! #inwx
Posted by US National Weather Service Indianapolis Indiana on Friday, April 1, 2016
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1125 AM EDT FRI APR 1 2016 ...TORNADO CONFIRMED NEAR LAFAYETTE IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY INDIANA... LOCATION...LAFAYETTE IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY INDIANA DATE...MARCH 31 2016 ESTIMATED TIME...440 PM MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF1 ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...100 MPH MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...30 YARDS ESTIMATED PATH LENGTH...50 YARDS ESTIMATED BEGINNING LAT/LON...40.36N / 86.83W ENDING LAT/LON...40.36N / 86.83W * FATALITIES...0 * INJURIES...0 * THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA. ...SUMMARY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS IN HAS CONFIRMED A TORNADO NEAR LAFAYETTE IN TIPPECANOE COUNTY INDIANA ON MARCH 31 2016. CAPTURED ON VIDEO A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 3.5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE AT WABASH NATIONAL TRAILERS. A GUARD SHACK WAS DESTROYED...A CAR ROLLED OVER AND CONSTRUCTION TRAILER WAS DAMAGED AND NEARLY ROLLED OVER. THIS INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IND. FOR REFERENCE...THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: EF0...WIND SPEEDS 65 TO 85 MPH. EF1...WIND SPEEDS 86 TO 110 MPH. EF2...WIND SPEEDS 111 TO 135 MPH. EF3...WIND SPEEDS 136 TO 165 MPH. EF4...WIND SPEEDS 166 TO 200 MPH. EF5...WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 200 MPH. $$ PUMA
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