Tornado, Elkhart
- When
- July 20, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Elkhart County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.720, -85.800
Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, July 20, 1956
2 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wabash
- When
- July 20, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wabash County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.700, -85.680
Tornado, Elkhart
- When
- July 20, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Elkhart County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -85.800
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1956Every state in 1956This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1956
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10002952, 10002953, 10002954.