Strong to severe thunderstorms may bring areas of excessive rainfall and flooding over parts of the southern Plains today through Friday. Hot to dangerously hot temperatures are forecast across portions of the Pacific Northwest and southern Great Basin today. Gusty winds, dry, and hot conditions will bring critical fire weather to parts of central Washington state today. Read More >
March 7, 1956
Counties: Washington IN
F-scale: F2
Deaths:
Injuries:
Path width:
Path length:
Time: 12:10am
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2...Grazulis does not list it. SPC and Storm Data give a time of 12:10am, NCDC gives 12:06am. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards, NCDC says 30 yards. Storm Data says it struck one mile south of Salem and moved east.
April 3, 1956
Counties: Washington IN
F-scale: F2
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 12
Path width: 150 yards
Path length: 23 miles
Time: 5:45pm
Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast from seven miles southwest of Salem to near Little York. A large bridge five miles southwest of Salem was moved. Over a hundred buildings were damaged or destroyed. A church and a school were struck at Canton. A freezer was reportedly carried half a mile from the home site. Newspapers called this a "barnado" because of the large number of barns destroyed. One of the women injured in this tornado would be killed by another tornado on March 19, 1963.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F2, Grazulis says F3. SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile...NCDC gives nothing...Grazulis gives 15 miles...Storm Data gives 23 miles. SPC gives a path width of 10 yards...NCDC gives nothing...Grazulis and Storm Data say 150 yards. SPC and NCDC list only a touchdown point...no lift-off point is given.
July 13, 1956
Counties: Fayette, Bourbon
F-scale: F1
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Path width: 30 yards
Path length: 3 miles
Time: 5:00pm
Grazulis Narrative: Moved northeast from extreme northeast Fayette County, tearing apart four farms. At least one barn was destroyed.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC list this as an F1...Grazulis calls it an F2. SPC and NCDC give a time of 6:00pm, Storm Data gives 5:00pm, Grazulis says 6:30pm. SPC gives a path length of 1/10 of a mile...NCDC gives nothing...Grazulis gives 3 miles. SPC and Grazulis give a path width of 30 yards...NCDC gives nothing...Storm Data says 38 yards. SPC and NCDC give only a touchdown point (which agrees with Grazulis' touchdown point), but no lift-off point.
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