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F4 tornado in Hancock County, Indiana

Tornado June 11, 1998 · Hancock County, Indiana

F4
Rating
12.2 mi
Path length
500 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$1.1M
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F4 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F4 meant devastating damage: well-built houses levelled; the scale paired it with winds of 207–260 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 tornado initially touched down on Indianapolis' far east side in Cumberland destroying six buildings and damaging nearly eighty. The tornado continued east-northeast into Hancock County before dissipating just east of Maxwell at 640 PM EST. In Hancock County, the tornado destroyed approxiamtely five buildings and damaged nearly 40 others. The supercell storm that generated this tornado also produced three other tornadoes in east central Indiana that evening. These tornadoes will be described below.

Began near Greenfield (39.7800, -85.9700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5655567. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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