NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - INDIANAPOLIS
INDIANA WEATHER HISTORY
JUNE
1. 1934 FORT WAYNE...WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 101 DEGREES...
THIS IS THE EARLIEST DATE IN SPRING IN WHICH THE CITY
REACHED 100 DEGREES.
1987 OTTERBEIN...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL FELL.
1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PICKS UP A SCOREBOARD AT MADISON-
GRANT HIGH SCHOOL IN GRANT COUNTY...AND CARRIES IT 50
YARDS.
2. 1980 WAYNETOWN TO NEAR CRAWFORDSVILLE...A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN
KILLED A WOMAN SOUTH OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. 16 OTHERS WERE
INJURED.
1990 THE LARGEST TORNADO OUTBREAK IN STATE HISTORY.
37 TORNADOES TOUCH DOWN...LEAVING 8 DEAD.
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4. 1993 PRAIRIETON...WINDS PICKED UP A SMALL AIRPLANE AND
DEPOSITED IT IN A TREE.
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7. 1933 EVANSVILLE...THE RECORD FOR THE EARLIEST DATE IN CITY
HISTORY ON WHICH THE TEMPERATURE REACHED 100 DEGREES.
1948 A TORNADO STRUCK HENRYVILLE KILLING ONE CHILD AT 600 PM.
THE PATH WAS 3 MILES LONG AND 100 YARDS WIDE. NEAR ANDERSON
A HAILSTORM DROPPED HAIL 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...AND WAS UP
TO ONE FOOT DEEP IN SPOTS.
1980 WINDFALL...A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN KILLED ONE MAN AND
INJURED FIVE OTHER PEOPLE.
1993 LIGONIER...A WOMAN IS INJURED WHEN LIGHTNING TRAVELED
THROUGH PHONE LINES...LEAPT FROM HER PHONE...AND HIT HER
SITTING NEARBY.
8. 1993 EAST CHICAGO...A WATERSPOUT WAS OBSERVED IN INDIANA
HARBOR.
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11. 1842 FORT WAYNE... AN UNUSUALLY LATE HARD FROST WAS REPORTED.
1883 BUTLERVILLE...A TORNADO STRUCK A MOVING FREIGHT
TRAIN...PICKING UP SEVEN CARS FILLED WITH SUGAR...AND
THROWING THEM INTO THE WOODS SOME DISTANCE AWAY.
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14. 1880 FIVE STRONG TORNADOES STRUCK CENTRAL INDIANA...KILLING
AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE. CATTLE WERE SAID TO BE KILLED IN DROVES
AND ORCHARDS RUINED. THE GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CICERO
WAS BLOWN DOWN AND ITS BELL CARRIED FIFTY FEET AWAY.
15. 1987 A TORNADO TOUCHES DOWN NORTHWEST OF DANVILLE...HITTING
A PIG FARM AND LIFTING SEVERAL PIGS IN THE AIR.
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17. 1992 ON THE NIGHT OF THE 17TH-18TH...A FAST MOVING SQUALL
LINE MOVED ACROSS THE STATE CAUSING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE.
SOME STORMS ALSO BROUGHT LARGE HAIL AND FLASH FLOODING.
18. 1992 LIBERTY...BASEBALL SIZED HAIL FELL.
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20. 1901 50 OIL DERRICKS ARE BLOWN DOWN NEAR HARTFORD CITY
DURING THE NIGHT...DUE TO STORMS.
1942 FROM MORAN TO KOKOMO...AROUND 630 PM A TORNADO STRUCK
WHICH WOUND UP KILLING 4 PEOPLE AND INJURING 150 MORE.
THE GREATEST DAMAGE WAS IN THE KOKOMO AREA.
1990 DECATUR...LIGHTNING STRUCK A HOUSE WITH SUCH FORCE THAT
IT BLEW A PLASTIC SWITCH PLATE OFF A LIGHT SWITCH AND
EMBEDDED IT IN THE OPPOSITE WALL.
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22. 1992 LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S IN THE NORTH AND CENTRAL
CAUSED A DAMAGING FROST. INDIANAPOLIS LOW TEMPERATURE OF
37 IS LOWEST EVER RECORDED IN THE CITY DURING THE SUMMER
MONTHS.
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25. 1988 SOUTH BEND...THE ALL TIME RECORD HIGH FOR THE CITY IS
SET AT 104 DEGREES.
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27. 1993 SEVERAL INCHES OF HAIL COVERED THE GROUND IN PARKE
COUNTY WITH DRIFTS OF 1 TO 2 FEET. A 4-WHEEL DRIVE COUNTY
HIGHWAY TRUCK HAD TO BE PULLED OUT OF A DRIFT. THE NEXT
MORNING HAIL STILL COVERED THE GROUND IN THE GUION AREA.
28. 1874 INDIANAPOLIS...85 DEGREES IS THE WARMEST LOW
TEMPERATURE ON RECORD FOR THE CITY.
1902 IN CENTRAL INDIANA TEN PEOPLE WERE KILLED BY TWO
TORNADOES. ONE OF THE FATALITIES WAS A MAN WHO WAS
ATTENDING A FUNERAL SERVICE AT A HOME IN THE TOWN OF
CLEVELAND. FIVE GLASS FACTORIES WERE WRECKED IN HANCOCK
COUNTY.
29. 1929 INDIANAPOLIS...THE HIGHEST WIND GUST IN CITY HISTORY IS
MEASURED AT 111 MPH.
30. 1877 WAVERLY...FRANKLIN AND ST PAUL...A TORNADO STRUCK
KILLING 10. THE TORNADO PICKED UP A SCHOOL NEAR WAVERLY
AND MOVED IT 50 YARDS DOWN A HILL...AND CARRIED ANOTHER
SCHOOL ACROSS A FIELD SCATTERING ITS FURNITURE FOR HALF A
MILE.
1990 LIBERTY CENTER...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL FELL.
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