Nappanee Indiana Tornado Damage (Slideshow)

Nappanee Indiana Tornado Damage

Note: Damage photo locations correspond to push pin annotations in track maps.

1 - Start) Barn and house damage, mainly siding and shingles. Trees sheared and uprooted. Trampoline mangled. Weak EF0, beginning of tornado damage path.

2 - EF0 Minor damage. Grain silo piece laying in field.

3 - EF0 2 houses damaged minor. Some trees snapped. Just south of this position on highway 30 there was also a twisted large highway exit sign and a uprooted tree.

4 - EF1 11th and Elm -- Numerous power poles broke or bent north on Elm, starting just south of 11th. Poles broke or down ¾ mile length north of 11th. Farm with substantial 2nd floor damage and several grain silos damaged 0.4 mile north of 11 th on Elm. EF1 to house.

5 - EF1 House damaged, west side of 1 st floor of home torn off. Lots of sheared and uprooted trees. Metal 4 car garage completely destroyed with slab remaining. Vehicles parked in garage, J.D. Gator and small Tractor, were left intact and not damaged.

6 - EF1 0.6 north of 9B on Chestnut Rd. had substantial wooded area topped and sheared. Single wide and double wide trailers on both sides of Chestnut were overturned. Some injuries to people at home during this time.

7 - EF1 Power poles bent and broke on 8th and Beech road. 1 house damaged substantially north of 8th on Beech Rd.

8 - EF0 Barn and Tree damage on Apple Rd. north of 8th road.

10 - EF2 Wide Path, 0.45 mile wide, call it half mile. House with only interior walls left standing. Exterior walls leaning inside house or thrown. Older house with rather thin walls and some concern for poor nailing of walls to foundation. Wood pole type barn with metal siding northeast of home completely destroyed with debris flung northeast. Red combine left sitting in place where barn was. Trees sheared. Metal grain bins also destroyed and unwrapped.

11 - EF2 Amish houses and barn destroyed on both sides of CR 1000W. Mainly second story and roof damage with siding damage.

12 - EF2 Several amish houses damaged. Roof/top stories heavily damaged. Barn completely destroyed. Lots of Debris .22 tenths mile wide path. This was ¼ mile east of CR 1000W on CR 1200N.

13 - EF1 Extensive roof and tree damage. Outbuildings destroyed.

14 - EF1 Woods with trees topped and broke. Several homes with substantial roof damage at 850W and CR 1350N.

15 - EF2 ½ mile wide damage path Lots of trees topped and broken on south side of Nappanee. Church heavily damaged with EF2 damage. EF1 damage to an old school and house.

16 - EF2 Area of Indiana and Jackson Streets. Substantial home and tree damage with roofs and second stories destroyed or heavily damaged.

17 - EF2 Substantial damage to new mobile homes and RVs at Fairmount Homes and VITCO factory damage.

18 - EF3 Gulfstream cinderblock building walls knocked down. Boats and vehicles in building still in place. One other building had exterior walls completely gone. High end EF2. Northeast of Gulfstream on south side of Highway 6, Taco bell and Dairy Queen sustained substantial damage. Gas station building completely leveled and a steel frame building with metal siding had siding torn off. Steel frame was intact but steel I beams were twisted and damaged.

19 - EF3 Blackstone Subdivision at CR 54 just west of CR 9 heavily damaged homes. Roofs off of several homes. 1 home had second story completely gone and exterior walls collapsed. Interior walls still standing. Direct hit in subdivision with EF3 damage. Woman was trapped in home and crawled out afterward. Only 5 minor injuries known at this time in Nappanee.

20 - EF2 Lots of structural damage to houses on both sides of CR 9. Lots of missile damage to houses. Bus moved in driveway.

21 - EF1 Several barns damaged and lots of trees snapped/uprooted. Large circulation area. Well built homes have little damage. 0.3 mile wide.

22 - EF0 Several houses had minor shingle and siding damage. Lots of trees topped off. Lots of debris. Width around 300 yds.

23 - EF1 0.6 mile north of CR 50 on CR 15. Damage to barn siding, silo roof torn off, trees twisted and snapped. Large Debris field. Little damage to house. 100 yards wide.

24 - EF0 House and barn on south side of CR 46 at CR 17 sustained some damage. Damage width 300 yards wide.

25 - end Ending point of tornado just north of intersection of CR 17 and CR 46. Power lines down on north side of CR 46 with some minor structural damage to a house.

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[davidlee110]

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but where the southbend on from 2001

southbend was the woset tornado

is call a EF-3

[Legend813a]

Hey! Get the google toolbar, it has a spell checker built into it. Use it. Thank you in advance.

[MegaPenguin911]

I'm just lucky to live in granger.

[ladontloveu]

It's crazy...To think all those buildings looked that way and now it's like nothing ever happened. Napanee handled it so wonderfully though! People were out helping others clean up the day after. Phenominal little town!

[gab1971]

they made a new one

[timandtonya]

this was a crazy ass tornado.... We lost alot

[mattlawson25]

what the hik was that.

[tm18765]

That was a crazy Tornado...it tore some shit up...thay still havent done anything with the dary queen after that...

[jmhrking]

i live in the house on min. 1:17!!!

[cbking97009]

my son lives in nappane and we was so concerd about him i seen it on the news we just moved 35,00 miles away and didnt know what to think ty for shareing this we never got to see the damage it left thank god he was safe!