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Specific tornado information for Central Indiana follows below. General statistics for all of Indiana can be found farther down the page.
Click on county of interest for specific information
* Data through 12/31/2018 is currently available
Times listed on the individual pages are in Eastern Standard Time on a 24 hour clock, e.g. 0400 = 4:00 AM and 2000 = 8:00 PM
Locations listed are approximate.
Below are graphs of some Indiana tornado information, 1950-2015. Click any graph for a larger version. To see tornadoes by month for each year, please click decade menu below the graphs.
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| Indiana Tornadoes by Month, 1950-2015 | Indiana Tornadoes by Year, 1950-2015 |
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| Fatal Indiana Tornadoes by (E)F Scale, 1950-2015 |
Indiana Tornadoes by (E)F Scale, 1950-2015 |
Tornadoes by Year
| 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000-2009 | 2010s |
Indiana Tornado Information, 1950-2010
Click on any image below to see a larger version. Images from SPC data. (**)Note: Tornado path images below do not contain all tornadoes!
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Plot of (E)F-0 tornado paths** |
Plot of (E)F-1 tornado paths** |
Plot of (E)F-2 tornado paths** |
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Plot of (E)F-3 tornado paths** |
Plot of (E)F-4 tornado paths** |
Plot of (E)F-5 tornado paths** |
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| Tornado Days are days when a tornado was recorded in Indiana. The state averaged 10 tornado days per year in the middle 1950s and 1970s. Averages have dropped slightly to around 7 days per year in the 2000s. | Indiana average tornadoes by month, 1980-2010. This also considers all tornadoes that developed and crossed into the state. | Indiana tornadoes by (E)F scale. The Fujita scale was used from 1974-2006. (F-ratings were estimated before 1974). The Enhanced Fujita scale has been used since 2007. |
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| U.S. tornado fatalities by year, 1950-2011 |
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