Tracking Storm System Across the Eastern U.S.

A storm system will continue to produce widespread showers and thunderstorms as it progresses eastward across the central U.S. into the Northeast through the weekend. There are risks of severe thunderstorms and excessive rainfall on Saturday from the Ozarks into the mid-Mississippi River Valley with potential for damaging winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flash flooding. Read More >

September 26, 1976
Counties: Jefferson IN
F-scale: F3
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 1
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Time: 4:55pm
Grazulis narrative: Moved east-southeast from west of Deputy to two miles northeast of Madison. Two houses, a trailer, and a barn were destroyed. One of the houses, a prefabricated home set on a concrete slab, "could not be found". Fortunately it was unoccupied. A man residing in the trailer was fatally injured, dying a week later from his injuries. A farm home was also destroyed.
Noted discrepancies: SPC and NCDC give a path length of 15 miles...Grazulis and Storm Data give 13 miles. Storm Data ends this tornado two miles northeast of Madison near IN 7. However IN 7 doesn't go northeast of Madison.

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Tracking Storm System Across the Eastern U.S.

Tornadoes of September 26, 1976