Tornadoes of April 19, 2011

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-scale:  EF1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  3.1 miles
Time:  11:22pm EDT
Notes:  A well constructed 75-foot tall grain silo had the top 40 foot portion sheared off north of Ireland.  A 40 ft by 50 ft outbuilding was destroyed in the vicinity of the grain silo, with siding thrown up to 500 yards downwind. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  0.3 mile
Time:  11:22pm EDT
Notes:  A large swath of hardwood trees were snapped or uprooted three miles north of Huntingburg. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  2 miles
Time:  11:25pm EDT
Notes:  At the beginning point of this tornado a few small trees, some dead, were blown over and branches were blown off of some of the trees.  Several trees were blown over in Haysville.  The most intense damage occurred as the tornado lifted east of Haysville in the woods along IN 56.  At that point several trees up to two feet in diameter were blown down.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-2
Deaths:  0
Injuries: 0
Path width:  300 yards
Path length:  3.3 miles
Time:  11:26pm EDT
Notes:  A large number of trees were snapped and uprooted north of Bretzville and Saint Anthony.  Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Dubois
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  0.4 mile
Time:  11:26pm EDT
Notes:  Hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted southwest of Saint Anthony.  A residence north of Indiana 64 was damaged.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Orange
EF-Scale:  EF-2
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  1 mile
Time:  11:39pm EDT
Notes:  This tornado began on the county line near Roland, then crossed US 150 into Roland and onto CR 275N.  Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped in a convergent pattern.  In one concentrated spot two dozen trees were snapped off.  A house had its windows blown in on its southwest side.  A well constructed log cabin lost shingles.  A very well constructed large barn had its metal roofing torn off and wrapped into tree tops up to 200 yards downwind.  A wood shed was destroyed. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Orange
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  125 yards
Path length:  1.5 miles
Time:  11:40pm EDT
Notes:  The tornado touched down 7.7 miles south of French Lick just west of Tony's Marina near IN 145.  Trees were uprooted and snapped.  A large metal barn with cinder block walls was destroyed.  The tornado then crossed IN 145 and moved into the marina.  Three metal outbuildings were damaged or destroyed.  One of the buildings had its doors blown in, on another the metal roof was peeled back, and the third was leveled and blown 300 yards downwind.  Trees were uprooted in a convergent pattern, some of which fell on power lines causing the poles to snap.  A pontoon boat was flipped over.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Orange
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  75 yards
Path length: 0.75 mile
Time:  11:40pm EDT
Notes:  This tornado began near the intersection of IN 145 and Base Line Road where it destroyed a metal roofed barn.  Trees were uprooted and snapped.  A house on Base Line Road had its front porch ripped off and thrown over the house into the back yard.  A cluster of tall evergreens was snapped off and strewn chaotically in all directions. 

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Orange
EF-Scale:  EF-0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  100 yards
Path length:  0.5 mile
Time:  11:47pm EDT
Notes:  Several trees were uprooted along West CR 390S.  A couple of trees were snapped.  A metal roof was peeled off of a small outbuilding.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Breckinridge, Meade
EF-Scale:  EF-0
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  50 yards
Path length:  11 miles (skipping)
Time:  11:54pm EDT
Notes:  This tornado touched down 7.3 miles southwest of Payneville and skipped to 4.3 miles west of Brandenburg.  It reached its peak strength on Sirocco Road where a carport attached to a house blew across a field, trees were snapped or uprooted, a barn door was blown in, and shingles were blown off of a nearby house.

April 19, 2011
Counties:  Washington IN
EF-Scale:  EF-1
Deaths:  0
Injuries:  0
Path width:  200 yards
Path length:  1.4 miles
Time:  11:59pm EDT
Notes:  The track began near the intersection of South John Batt Road and West Batts Road.  Along the path a grain bin was destroyed and several trees were felled.  It threw a 10,000 pound large grain silo leg.  At that same location two other silos were destroyed as well as a 20 foot by 30 foot ourbuilding.  A ranch style home suffered significant damage.  Near the end of the track a house's roof was partially torn off a gravel from the driveway was lifted and pelted into the side of the house.  The tornado lifted just northeast of the intersection of West Mount Tabor Road and Southwest Washington School Road.