46898 Zip Code Natural Disasters and Weather Extremes
Hot Rankings
The chance of earthquake damage in 46898 Zip Code is about the same as Indiana average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in 46898 Zip Code is lower than Indiana average and is much higher than the national average.
Earthquake Index, #378
| 46898 Zip Code | 0.03 |
| Indiana | 0.12 |
| U.S. | 1.81 |
The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.
Volcano Index, #1
| 46898 Zip Code | 0.0000 |
| Indiana | 0.0000 |
| U.S. | 0.0023 |
The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.
Tornado Index, #623
| 46898 Zip Code | 238.06 |
| Indiana | 265.56 |
| U.S. | 136.45 |
The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.
Other Weather Extremes Events
A total of 3,519 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of 46898 Zip Code were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:
| Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count | Type | Count |
| Avalanche: | 0 | Blizzard: | 8 | Cold: | 8 | Dense Fog: | 3 | Drought: | 5 |
| Dust Storm: | 0 | Flood: | 255 | Hail: | 1,008 | Heat: | 8 | Heavy Snow: | 43 |
| High Surf: | 0 | Hurricane: | 0 | Ice Storm: | 25 | Landslide: | 0 | Strong Wind: | 67 |
| Thunderstorm Winds: | 1,914 | Tropical Storm: | 0 | Wildfire: | 0 | Winter Storm: | 73 | Winter Weather: | 12 |
| Other: | 90 | ||||||||
Volcanos Nearby
No volcano is found in or near 46898 Zip Code.
Historical Earthquake Events
No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near 46898 Zip Code.
No historical earthquake events found in or near 46898 Zip Code.
Historical Tornado Events
A total of 79 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near 46898 Zip Code.
| Distance (miles) | Date | Magnitude | Start Lat/Log | End Lat/Log | Length | Width | Fatalities | Injuries | Property Damage | Crop Damage | Affected County |
| 4.4 | 1992-10-08 | 2 | 41°04'N / 85°08'W | 2.00 Miles | 20 Yards | 0 | 9 | 250K | 0 | Allen | |
| 4.4 | 2001-05-26 | 2 | 41°04'N / 85°08'W | 41°04'N / 85°08'W | 3.00 Miles | 300 Yards | 0 | 3 | 6.5M | 0 | Allen |
| Brief Description: Tornado touched down as as F1 at the Northcrest shopping mall on the northwest side of Fort Wayne. Damaged to mall and surrounding businesses. Cars flipped over in parking lot with one person injured. Tornado then briefly lifted and touched down one half mile to the northeast as an F2. Extensive damage to the Papermill subdivision with F2 damage to two homes, an office complex, a retirement home, and a steeple torn off a church. One injury at the retirement home and one in the subdivision. Tornado proceeded northeast with F0-F1 damage to the Concordia Seminary and adjacent structures before the tornado lifted on the northeast side of the Seminary grounds. Synoptic and mesoscale conditions and event summary for Saturday May 26th, 2001 A low topped supercell thunderstorm developed in Cass county Indiana, and moved northeast through the Fort Wayne metropolitan area and into northwest Ohio. This thunderstorm produced several tornadoes and numerous funnel clouds. The wind field was favorable for rotating storms on with strong veering in the KIWX Wind Profile. This was on the south side of a unseasonably cold closed upper low in the mid and upper levels. Surface temperatures in the lower 50s, and scattered showers were against strong thunderstorm development. However sunshine over central Indiana allowed enough heating for a thunderstorm to develop and quickly began rotating. | |||||||||||
| 4.5 | 1950-07-19 | 2 | 41°04'N / 85°05'W | 41°05'N / 85°05'W | 1.10 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Allen |
| 6.3 | 1953-03-18 | 2 | 41°02'N / 85°08'W | 41°03'N / 85°04'W | 1.90 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Allen |
| 6.8 | 1968-05-16 | 3 | 40°58'N / 85°18'W | 41°06'N / 85°00'W | 17.90 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Allen |
| 10.5 | 2000-06-14 | 2 | 41°17'N / 85°09'W | 41°17'N / 85°07'W | 3.00 Miles | 400 Yards | 0 | 0 | 200K | 0 | De Kalb |
| Brief Description: The tornado touched down on CR 64, one half mile west of Indian Springs Camp Ground. Trees and power lines were knocked down and many were snapped and uprooted. Extensive roof damage occurred to houses in the area. A barn was damaged with much of its roof torn off and outbuildings were either damaged or destroyed. The tornado then lifted back into its parent cloud. Synoptic and mesoscale conditions for June 14th... A significant mid-level shortwave trough was located over Iowa on the morning of June 14th with an outflow dominated squall line across western Illinois. Rapid destabilization ensued later in the morning across eastern Illinois and northern Indiana with CAPES to 3500 j/kg by early afternoon. VAD wind profiles showed 850 millibar winds in excess of 50 knots in advance of the upper trough by afternoon and as storms developed along the left over outflow boundary across Illinois... they quickly became severe and organized into a large bow echo and moved quickly eastward into northern Indiana causing extensive wind damage. By late afternoon... a short segmented squall line developed just ahead of this bow echo squall line and extended from a St. Joseph to Fulton county line. Along the southern end of this line... an embedded tornadic supercell developed and interacted with a left over storm-scale outflow boundary to produce the Wabash/Kosciusko and DeKalb county tornadoes. The lack of significant low level shear likely prevented a much larger and more widespread tornado event especially across Whitley and Allen counties where several funnel clouds were captured on film but failed to touch down. | |||||||||||
| 13.3 | 1963-04-17 | 2 | 40°58'N / 85°25'W | 41°02'N / 85°13'W | 11.10 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Huntington |
| 15.4 | 1965-07-16 | 2 | 41°09'N / 85°25'W | 41°06'N / 85°26'W | 2.70 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Whitley |
| 17.3 | 1986-08-26 | 2 | 40°54'N / 85°01'W | 40°55'N / 84°56'W | 5.00 Miles | 3 Yards | 0 | 2 | 2.5M | 0 | Adams |
| 19.4 | 1956-06-24 | 2 | 40°50'N / 85°07'W | 40°52'N / 85°07'W | 2.30 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 3K | 0 | Wells |
| 20.7 | 1971-08-10 | 2 | 41°18'N / 84°48'W | 0.50 Mile | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Defiance | |
| 21.6 | 1992-07-02 | 2 | 40°50'N / 85°00'W | 1.50 Miles | 50 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Adams | |
| 22.1 | 1992-07-14 | 2 | 41°27'N / 85°09'W | 41°27'N / 85°09'W | 4.00 Miles | 150 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25.0M | 0 | De Kalb |
| 22.5 | 1990-06-02 | 2 | 41°17'N / 85°31'W | 41°20'N / 85°28'W | 3.50 Miles | 220 Yards | 0 | 9 | 250K | 0 | Noble |
| 22.5 | 1992-07-14 | 2 | 41°27'N / 85°17'W | 41°27'N / 85°09'W | 4.00 Miles | 150 Yards | 0 | 28 | 25.0M | 0 | Noble |
| 24.0 | 1974-04-03 | 2 | 40°44'N / 85°15'W | 40°50'N / 85°00'W | 14.40 Miles | 177 Yards | 0 | 0 | 2.5M | 0 | Wells |
| 24.4 | 1968-05-16 | 3 | 40°49'N / 85°39'W | 40°58'N / 85°18'W | 20.80 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 3 | 3K | 0 | Huntington |
| 25.1 | 1967-07-01 | 2 | 40°53'N / 85°29'W | 0.50 Mile | 300 Yards | 0 | 2 | 25K | 0 | Huntington | |
| 25.5 | 2001-10-24 | 2 | 41°28'N / 85°12'W | 41°32'N / 85°01'W | 7.00 Miles | 440 Yards | 0 | 0 | 1.0M | 0 | De Kalb |
| Brief Description: On Wednesday 10/24/01 a surface low pressure system tracked rapidly northeast from the mid Mississippi Valley to northern Lake Michigan and deepened significantly. The accompanying cold front surged east from the Mississippi Valley during the afternoon to southeast Michigan and western Ohio in the evening. The deepening surface low was the result of a negatively tilted upper level trough approaching the Mississippi Valley. The air mass ahead of the cold front was quite unstable with lifted indices around -5C and surface dewpoints of 65-70F. Strong veering wind fields were over the area with 20-30kt S-SSE flow at the surface veering rapidly in the low levels to southwest at 45kts, then remaining unidirectional above with wind speeds increasing to 65kt at 20,000 ft. An area of Thunderstorms across Illinois in the early afternoon formed into a line as they moved into northwest Indiana. Two strong bow echoes developed over northwest and north central Indiana during the late afternoon and moved northeast at 50 MPH into southern Michigan. Numerous tornadoes occurred in the comma heads of the bow echoes. Isolated supercells ahead of the main squall line produced little severe weather except for a tornado that occurred over northwest Ohio in the evening when the squall line merged with a supercell. | |||||||||||
| 26.5 | 1974-04-03 | 3 | 41°25'N / 85°28'W | 41°31'N / 85°17'W | 11.40 Miles | 150 Yards | 3 | 38 | 25.0M | 0 | Noble |
| 27.5 | 1967-12-21 | 2 | 40°44'N / 85°10'W | 0 | 2 | 25K | 0 | Wells | |||
| 29.0 | 1963-04-17 | 2 | 40°59'N / 85°46'W | 41°07'N / 85°35'W | 13.00 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Wabash |
| 29.1 | 1974-04-03 | 3 | 41°31'N / 85°17'W | 41°34'N / 85°13'W | 4.30 Miles | 1000 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Lagrange |
| 29.4 | 1957-06-14 | 2 | 41°13'N / 85°41'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Kosciusko | |||
| 29.7 | 1961-05-06 | 3 | 41°33'N / 85°12'W | 41°33'N / 84°48'W | 20.50 Miles | 800 Yards | 0 | 0 | 2.5M | 0 | Steuben |
| 29.9 | 1961-05-06 | 3 | 41°32'N / 85°25'W | 41°33'N / 85°12'W | 11.00 Miles | 800 Yards | 0 | 5 | 2.5M | 0 | Lagrange |
| 30.1 | 1985-06-15 | 2 | 40°50'N / 85°33'W | 0.30 Mile | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Huntington | |
| 31.8 | 1974-04-03 | 2 | 40°40'N / 85°30'W | 40°47'N / 85°20'W | 11.50 Miles | 350 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Huntington |
| 32.0 | 1961-07-23 | 3 | 41°20'N / 85°41'W | 0 | 3 | 25K | 0 | Kosciusko | |||
| 32.4 | 2002-11-10 | 3 | 40°40'N / 84°55'W | 40°44'N / 84°51'W | 5.00 Miles | 200 Yards | 0 | 0 | 125K | 0 | Adams |
| Brief Description: This tornado touched down 2 miles northeast of Berne and moved just northeast of Salem before lifting. An NWS ground survey found F3 damage at times 200 yards wide northeast of Berne. Much of the damage was to extremely well built Amish barns and homes. A mobile home was also destroyed near Salem. | |||||||||||
| 32.4 | 2002-11-10 | 4 | 40°47'N / 84°46'W | 40°59'N / 84°26'W | 21.60 Miles | 880 Yards | 2 | 17 | 30.0M | 0 | Van Wert |
| Brief Description: This tornado touched down in the southwest corner of Van Wert County about 4 miles northeast of Willshire and moved northeast across the western portion of the city of Van Wert, and then crossed U.S. 30 and continued northeast before exiting the county about 7 miles east of Scott. NWS ground and aerial surveys showed the tornado quickly intensified to F4 about 5 miles southwest of the city of Van Wert near Zook road, where a 75 year old male was killed in his home. The tornado continued moving northeast as an F4 into the city of Van Wert, were it hit the Twin Cinemas and the Vision Industrial Park. At this point the tornado was about one half mile wide. 60 persons watching a movie in the cinemas, mostly children, took shelter before the tornado hit, with only minor injuries. Vehicles from the parking lot were thrown into the seats where the children had been sitting. An 18 year old male driving past the cinemas was thrown from his vehicle and killed. The tornado then destroyed five industries in the Vision Industrial Park, before moving north of U.S. 30, producing F4 damage to additional businesses and homes. The tornado weakened to F3 as it moved northeast and crossed into Paulding county. 164 homes were damaged in Van Wert county, and 43 were totally destroyed. 27 businesses sustained damage, with 5 totally destroyed in Vision Park. Three county engineer buildings were destroyed, with one house used by a township. Total damage in Van Wert county was near 30 million dollars. M18VE, M75PH On Sunday, November 10th, 2002 a cold front trailed from a deep surface low over northern Lake Michigan into central Missouri. Ahead of the cold front the KILN (Wilmington, OH) 1200 UTC sounding showed an unstable airmass with CAPE (Convectively Available Potential Energy) of 1148 J/kg and a Storm Relative Helicity (SRH) of 408 m/s2. Another sounding at 1800 UTC showed CAPE had increased on a modified sounding to 1313 J/kg, with SRH increasing to 587 m/s2. A broken squall line developed from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne Indiana and Defiance Ohio with the cold front. A small low topped supercell developed ahead of the line over Blackford county Indiana and was moving northeast at 50 MPH. This parent supercell produced 3 seperate tornadoes in Indiana (see StormData, Indiana, Northeast for more information) before crossing into Ohio. There the supercell intensified and a tornado touched down in Van Wert County Ohio, reaching F4 in strength as it reached the city of Van Wert. The tornado then moved northeast with a total path length of 53 miles, producing F3 damage in Paulding and Putnam counties, and F0 damage in Defiance and Henry counties. | |||||||||||
| 33.2 | 1991-03-27 | 3 | 41°32'N / 85°04'W | 41°39'N / 84°50'W | 14.60 Miles | 200 Yards | 1 | 6 | 25.0M | 0 | Steuben |
| 33.5 | 1974-04-03 | 4 | 41°26'N / 85°38'W | 41°35'N / 85°26'W | 14.40 Miles | 33 Yards | 1 | 24 | 0K | 0 | Noble |
| 33.5 | 1974-04-03 | 4 | 41°25'N / 85°39'W | 41°26'N / 85°38'W | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Elkhart | ||
| 33.8 | 2000-06-14 | 2 | 41°02'N / 85°47'W | 41°03'N / 85°45'W | 1.00 Mile | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 200K | 10K | Kosciusko |
| Brief Description: The last farm was hit when the tornado was located just west of 1300 S and 400 E in Kosciusko County. Two barns, a garage, and several outbuildings were completely destroyed with some of the foundations swept clean. The house and two cars were severely damaged from large pieces of flying debris. A 17 foot boat was thrown about 20 yards and severely damaged. Most of the trees on this farm were destroyed. Debris from this farm was carried up to one half mile away as the tornado crossed 400 E and then lifted back into the clouds. Synoptic and mesoscale conditions for June 14th... A significant mid-level shortwave trough was located over Iowa on the morning of June 14th with an outflow dominated squall line across western Illinois. Rapid destabilization ensued later in the morning across eastern Illinois and northern Indiana with CAPES to 3500 j/kg by early afternoon. VAD wind profiles showed 850 millibar winds in excess of 50 knots in advance of the upper trough by afternoon and as storms developed along the left over outflow boundary across Illinois... they quickly became severe and organized into a large bow echo and moved quickly eastward into northern Indiana causing extensive wind damage. By late afternoon... a short segmented squall line developed just ahead of this bow echo squall line and extended from a St. Joseph to Fulton county line. Along the southern end of this line... an embedded tornadic supercell developed and interacted with a left over storm-scale outflow boundary to produce the Wabash/Kosciusko and DeKalb county tornadoes. The lack of significant low level shear likely prevented a much larger and more widespread tornado event especially across Whitley and Allen counties where several funnel clouds were captured on film but failed to touch down. | |||||||||||
| 33.8 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 40°38'N / 85°03'W | 40°42'N / 84°48'W | 13.70 Miles | 33 Yards | 1 | 37 | 25.0M | 0 | Adams |
| 34.5 | 1992-07-12 | 2 | 40°41'N / 84°45'W | 40°44'N / 84°48'W | 3.00 Miles | 73 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Mercer |
| 34.7 | 2000-06-14 | 2 | 41°01'N / 85°48'W | 41°03'N / 85°46'W | 4.00 Miles | 200 Yards | 0 | 3 | 700K | 30K | Wabash |
| Brief Description: The tornado touched down again, hitting a farm at 1300 N and 100 W. A man suffered a broken leg here. Two hog sheds and a large grain bin were destroyed. A 200-yard swath of trees were uprooted to the northeast along the railroad tracks. Another man suffered back and chest injuries as the tornado continued to the intersection of 1300 N and Meridian Road and demolished the barn in which he stood. A 5th wheel camper was rolled 50 yards from its original position destroying it. The tornado continued to the next farm just south of 1400 N and 100 E. The barn was destroyed and the house suffered moderate damage, primarily from flying tree debris. The tornado snapped a utility pole, which fell on an 18-year-old boy, breaking his leg. Many trees and power lines were downed along the way. From here, the tornado continued until the Wabash/Kosciusko county line. Synoptic and mesoscale conditions for June 14th... A significant mid-level shortwave trough was located over Iowa on the morning of June 14th with an outflow dominated squall line across western Illinois. Rapid destabilization ensued later in the morning across eastern Illinois and northern Indiana with CAPES to 3500 j/kg by early afternoon. VAD wind profiles showed 850 millibar winds in excess of 50 knots in advance of the upper trough by afternoon and as storms developed along the left over outflow boundary across Illinois... they quickly became severe and organized into a large bow echo and moved quickly eastward into northern Indiana causing extensive wind damage. By late afternoon... a short segmented squall line developed just ahead of this bow echo squall line and extended from a St. Joseph to Fulton county line. Along the southern end of this line... an embedded tornadic supercell developed and interacted with a left over storm-scale outflow boundary to produce the Wabash/Kosciusko and DeKalb county tornadoes. The lack of significant low level shear likely prevented a much larger and more widespread tornado event especially across Whitley and Allen counties where several funnel clouds were captured on film but failed to touch down. | |||||||||||
| 34.7 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 40°42'N / 84°48'W | 40°44'N / 84°42'W | 5.10 Miles | 33 Yards | 2 | 24 | 2.5M | 0 | Mercer |
| 34.8 | 1961-05-06 | 3 | 41°33'N / 84°48'W | 41°34'N / 84°45'W | 1.90 Miles | 813 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Williams |
| 34.9 | 1967-10-24 | 2 | 41°26'N / 85°40'W | 0 | 5 | 250K | 0 | Kosciusko | |||
| 35.4 | 1950-07-19 | 2 | 40°48'N / 84°37'W | 40°49'N / 84°35'W | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Van Wert | ||
| 36.1 | 1974-04-03 | 3 | 41°34'N / 85°13'W | 41°44'N / 84°53'W | 20.50 Miles | 333 Yards | 2 | 15 | 0K | 0 | Steuben |
| 36.8 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 40°34'N / 85°20'W | 40°38'N / 85°03'W | 15.30 Miles | 33 Yards | 1 | 38 | 25.0M | 0 | Wells |
| 37.5 | 1974-04-03 | 3 | 41°03'N / 84°27'W | 41°10'N / 84°22'W | 8.70 Miles | 177 Yards | 0 | 1 | 250K | 0 | Paulding |
| 37.7 | 2006-03-31 | 2 | 40°45'N / 84°37'W | 40°46'N / 84°35'W | 2.00 Miles | 300 Yards | 0 | 0 | 1.0M | 0 | Van Wert |
| Brief Description: The tornado was likely produced as the result of a line of thunderstorms overtaking an isolated supercell thunderstorm ahead of the line. The circulation which produced the tornado intensified shortly after the merger of the line and isolated supercell. The tornado developed near the intersection of Burris Road and Walnut Grove Church Road about 1 mile south of Ohio City. The tornado tracked to the east-northeast for roughly 2 miles before dissipating near Greenville Rd about 2 miles east of Ohio City. Damage along the first half of the tornado track was consistent with F2 intensity, with winds estimated at 140-150 mph and an initial path width of about 300 yards. In this area, 3 barns were completely destroyed, with another 5 sustaining damage. A garage was destroyed, and several houses received damage including roof, siding, and windows. Several grain bins were also damaged, along with other miscellaneous vehicle and property damage, including several tractors, a combine and other farm implements. Damage along the second half of the tornado track was consistent with F1 intensity, with the path width narrowing to about 25 yards. Several buildings sustained roof, siding, and window damage, with several instances of trailer and vehicle damage. | |||||||||||
| 38.3 | 1957-07-04 | 2 | 41°28'N / 84°34'W | 41°27'N / 84°30'W | 2.70 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Williams |
| 39.0 | 2002-11-10 | 3 | 40°59'N / 84°27'W | 41°05'N / 84°20'W | 9.00 Miles | 440 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Paulding |
| Brief Description: This tornado originated in Van Wert county and crossed into Paulding county 3 miles southwest of Roselms and exited Paulding county about 2.5 miles southeast of Oakwood. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage along the entire path in Paulding county, with only one structure remaining standing in the town of Roselms, in which the town residents had taken cover in the basement. On Sunday, November 10th, 2002 a cold front trailed from a deep surface low over northern Lake Michigan into central Missouri. Ahead of the cold front the KILN (Wilmington, OH) 1200 UTC sounding showed an unstable airmass with CAPE (Convectively Available Potential Energy) of 1148 J/kg and a Storm Relative Helicity (SRH) of 408 m/s2. Another sounding at 1800 UTC showed CAPE had increased on a modified sounding to 1313 J/kg, with SRH increasing to 587 m/s2. A broken squall line developed from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne Indiana and Defiance Ohio with the cold front. A small low topped supercell developed ahead of the line over Blackford county Indiana and was moving northeast at 50 MPH. This parent supercell produced 3 seperate tornadoes in Indiana (see StormData, Indiana, Northeast for more information) before crossing into Ohio. There the supercell intensified and a tornado touched down in Van Wert County Ohio, reaching F4 in strength as it reached the city of Van Wert. The tornado then moved northeast with a total path length of 53 miles, producing F3 damage in Paulding and Putnam counties, and F0 damage in Defiance and Henry counties. | |||||||||||
| 39.1 | 1969-08-15 | 2 | 41°38'N / 84°47'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Steuben | |||
| 39.3 | 1956-04-03 | 2 | 41°38'N / 85°29'W | 0 | 0 | 3K | 0 | Lagrange | |||
| 39.4 | 1974-04-03 | 4 | 41°12'N / 86°03'W | 41°25'N / 85°39'W | 25.40 Miles | 33 Yards | 1 | 39 | 0K | 0 | Kosciusko |
| 39.9 | 1969-09-06 | 2 | 41°42'N / 85°00'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Steuben | |||
| 40.2 | 1992-02-18 | 4 | 40°44'N / 84°34'W | 2.80 Miles | 40 Yards | 0 | 6 | 2.5M | 0 | Van Wert | |
| 40.4 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 40°44'N / 84°42'W | 40°46'N / 84°23'W | 16.50 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 4 | 250K | 0 | Van Wert |
| 40.6 | 1968-05-16 | 3 | 40°44'N / 85°51'W | 40°49'N / 85°39'W | 11.60 Miles | 33 Yards | 1 | 12 | 250K | 0 | Wabash |
| 41.3 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 40°33'N / 85°23'W | 40°34'N / 85°20'W | 1.90 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 22 | 25.0M | 0 | Blackford |
| 41.8 | 1991-03-27 | 3 | 41°39'N / 84°50'W | 41°42'N / 84°43'W | 6.40 Miles | 200 Yards | 0 | 18 | 25.0M | 0 | Williams |
| 41.9 | 1986-07-12 | 2 | 41°14'N / 84°21'W | 41°13'N / 84°19'W | 3.30 Miles | 73 Yards | 0 | 0 | 2.5M | 0 | Defiance |
| 42.0 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°38'N / 85°40'W | 41°44'N / 85°16'W | 21.60 Miles | 177 Yards | 5 | 41 | 2.5M | 0 | Lagrange |
| 42.0 | 1974-04-03 | 2 | 41°02'N / 84°24'W | 41°07'N / 84°15'W | 9.20 Miles | 350 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Paulding |
| 42.2 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°44'N / 85°10'W | 41°45'N / 85°05'W | 3.80 Miles | 333 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Steuben |
| 42.3 | 1956-08-12 | 3 | 41°10'N / 86°03'W | 41°05'N / 85°50'W | 12.30 Miles | 800 Yards | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Kosciusko |
| 42.5 | 1967-12-21 | 3 | 40°33'N / 85°24'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Blackford | |||
| 43.0 | 1976-03-12 | 2 | 41°41'N / 85°30'W | 41°45'N / 85°19'W | 10.10 Miles | 127 Yards | 0 | 8 | 25K | 0 | Lagrange |
| 43.1 | 2002-11-10 | 3 | 41°05'N / 84°20'W | 41°10'N / 84°16'W | 7.20 Miles | 440 Yards | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Putnam |
| Brief Description: This tornado originated in Van Wert county and moved across Paulding county into Putnam county about 4 miles west southwest of Continental. NWS ground and aerial survey found F3 damage as the tornado entered Putnam county, striking a mobile home and killing a husband and wife. The tornado moved northeast across the northwest corner of Putnam county, quickly weakening to an F0 as it exited the county 4.5 miles north of Continental. M72MH, F67MH On Sunday, November 10th, 2002 a cold front trailed from a deep surface low over northern Lake Michigan into central Missouri. Ahead of the cold front the KILN (Wilmington, OH) 1200 UTC sounding showed an unstable airmass with CAPE (Convectively Available Potential Energy) of 1148 J/kg and a Storm Relative Helicity (SRH) of 408 m/s2. Another sounding at 1800 UTC showed CAPE had increased on a modified sounding to 1313 J/kg, with SRH increasing to 587 m/s2. A broken squall line developed from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne Indiana and Defiance Ohio with the cold front. A small low topped supercell developed ahead of the line over Blackford county Indiana and was moving northeast at 50 MPH. This parent supercell produced 3 seperate tornadoes in Indiana (see StormData, Indiana, Northeast for more information) before crossing into Ohio. There the supercell intensified and a tornado touched down in Van Wert County Ohio, reaching F4 in strength as it reached the city of Van Wert. The tornado then moved northeast with a total path length of 53 miles, producing F3 damage in Paulding and Putnam counties, and F0 damage in Defiance and Henry counties. | |||||||||||
| 44.4 | 1976-03-12 | 2 | 41°38'N / 85°38'W | 41°44'N / 85°30'W | 9.30 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 9 | 250K | 0 | Lagrange |
| 44.6 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°37'N / 85°42'W | 41°38'N / 85°40'W | 0 | 0 | 250K | 0 | Elkhart | ||
| 44.6 | 1956-03-06 | 4 | 40°34'N / 85°34'W | 40°36'N / 85°36'W | 1.90 Miles | 47 Yards | 1 | 31 | 2.5M | 0 | Grant |
| 44.6 | 1976-03-12 | 2 | 41°45'N / 85°19'W | 41°47'N / 85°15'W | 3.30 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | St. Joseph |
| 44.8 | 1956-04-03 | 3 | 40°59'N / 85°58'W | 1.50 Miles | 70 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Kosciusko | |
| 45.9 | 1976-03-12 | 2 | 41°47'N / 85°15'W | 41°48'N / 85°12'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Branch | ||
| 47.8 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°43'N / 85°40'W | 41°45'N / 85°30'W | 8.50 Miles | 333 Yards | 5 | 42 | 0K | 0 | Lagrange |
| 47.9 | 1964-08-22 | 2 | 41°42'N / 84°36'W | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Williams | |||
| 48.1 | 2007-10-18 | 3 | 41°26'N / 86°00'W | 41°30'N / 85°53'W | 7.00 Miles | 880 Yards | 0 | 0 | 11.0M | 0K | Elkhart |
| Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: The tornado continued northeast out of Kosciusko County into the southeast side of Nappanee where the most extensive damage occurred. The width of the tornado decreased to one quarter mile and intensified just south of US-6 and County Road 7 as wind speeds increased to around 165 mph, in the upper range of the EF3 rating. The tornado went through an area populated by homes, restaurants, convenience stores and 3 RV plants, all of which sustained varying degrees of damage. Local officials reported that 459 buildings were damaged. Of these, 352 were homes with 52 of those being destroyed or uninhabitable. 81 businesses were damaged and 26 destroyed. A few minor injuries were also reported, mainly from people trapped in some of the houses and a few businesses. The tornado continued into the Blackstone subdivision where numerous homes were damaged or destroyed. The tornado continued to west of New Paris near the intersection of County Roads 46 and 17 where it lifted. Numerous vehicles of all varieties sustained severe damage. Damage is estimated around $11 million. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A combination of strong dynamics, wind shear, and rapid low level moisture return all combined to produce severe weather across much of Northern Indiana. One of several supercell thunderstorms produced a long tracked tornado which reached the high end of EF3. | |||||||||||
| 48.2 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°45'N / 85°05'W | 41°53'N / 84°50'W | 15.50 Miles | 1333 Yards | 9 | 200 | 250.0M | 0 | Branch |
| 49.2 | 1965-04-23 | 2 | 40°33'N / 85°51'W | 40°33'N / 85°30'W | 18.20 Miles | 33 Yards | 0 | 0 | 25K | 0 | Grant |
| 49.3 | 1964-04-28 | 2 | 41°26'N / 85°59'W | 41°27'N / 85°59'W | 1.10 Miles | 100 Yards | 0 | 0 | 0K | 0 | Kosciusko |
| 49.7 | 1965-04-11 | 4 | 41°48'N / 85°00'W | 41°52'N / 84°50'W | 9.20 Miles | 33 Yards | 9 | 200 | 0K | 0 | Branch |
| 49.9 | 2007-10-18 | 2 | 41°23'N / 86°02'W | 41°26'N / 86°00'W | 5.00 Miles | 880 Yards | 0 | 0 | 3.0M | 0K | Kosciusko |
| Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: The tornado continued tracking northeast from Marshall county into extreme northwestern Kosciusko county. 116 structures were reported to have some sort of damage. 17 homes were destroyed, 6 suffered major damage and 17 minor damage. A horse was killed in a barn that was destroyed. Damage estimated around 3 million dollars. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A combination of strong dynamics, wind shear, and rapid low level moisture return all combined to produce severe weather across much of Northern Indiana. One of several supercell thunderstorms produced a long tracked tornado which reached the high end of EF3. | |||||||||||
* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.