Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Wintry Mix from the Plains through the Ohio Valley

A storm system will bring a number impacts to the central and eastern US. Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected in the Gulf Coast and Deep South. Further north, a wintry mix may produce a glaze of ice from the Ozarks/Mid-South east through the Ohio Valley. Accumulating snow is expected from the central Plains east into the Upper Ohio Valley/Lower Great Lakes. Read More >

March 16, 1963
Counties: Washington IN
F-scale: F2
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Path width: 100 yards
Path length: 1 mile
Time: 5:20pm
Grazulis narrative: Moved east-northeast from five miles southeast of Salem. Farm buildings on one farm, and a house on another farm, were destroyed.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give this a path width of 800 yards, Grazulis and Storm Data give 100 yards. Storm Data says this tornado hit four and a half miles southeast of Salem near IN 60 (present-day IN 160?) and the Middle Blue River.

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Heavy Rain in the Southeast; Wintry Mix from the Plains through the Ohio Valley

Tornadoes of March 16, 1963