Snow Squalls May Impact the Northeast on Thursday; Dangerously Cold Arctic Air Impact the North-Central US

Snow showers and snow squalls are likely to develop across the Northeast on Thursday. Lake effect snow will persist downwind of the Great Lakes. An arctic blast will bring frigid temperatures, gusty winds and dangerous wind chills to the Northern Plains before expanding to the South and East. A major winter storm will begin impacting the Southern Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley Friday. Read More >

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.

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Snow Squalls May Impact the Northeast on Thursday; Dangerously Cold Arctic Air Impact the North-Central US

Tornadoes of April 3, 1956