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F1 tornado in Morgan County, Indiana

Tornado April 19, 1996 · Morgan County, Indiana

Rating

5.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$4.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Morgan County → Johnson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

The wider storm

A supercell having produced golfball to baseball size hail from eastern Illinois to central Indiana produced a weak tornado in the south suburbs of Indianapolis. In Morgan county the tornado destroyed 6 buildings and damaged nearly 50 others. The main damage was between Five Points and Waverly and was concentrated in the Fox Hill area.

Began near Mooresville (39.6200, -86.3200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5549645. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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