Madison, Indiana

April 3, 1974

From Doug Duell:
I was about 9 when this happened and my family had boats at Madison Marina in Madison IN. All the boats were in storage for the winter and people were just starting to get them ready to be put in the water for the summer boating season. The tornadoes went through Madison and hit the storage barns and the docks on the river. These docks were steel, covered slips anywhere from 30 to, I think, 80 feet in length. They were also arranged so that there were two slips across from each other. I guess what I'm trying to say is that theses things are HEAVY.

When the tornado hit them it picked up what looked to be about 20 of these docks, flipped them upside down and set them back down almost exactly where they were.

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