Hail, Elkhart
- When
- March 6, 1:14 PM CST
- Where
- Elkhart County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.580, -85.780
Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, March 6, 1956
7 tornado, 2 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 35
- Property damage
- $2.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
7 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Carroll
- When
- March 6, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -86.400
Tornado, Benton
- When
- March 6, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 250 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -87.480
Tornado, Carroll
- When
- March 6, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -86.680
Tornado, Cass
- When
- March 6, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cass County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -86.270
Tornado, Miami
- When
- March 6, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -85.900
Tornado, Tipton
- When
- March 6, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tipton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.370, -85.970
Tornado, Grant
- When
- March 6, 9:50 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 47 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 31 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -85.570
Tornado, White
- When
- March 6, 11:10 PM CST
- Where
- White County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.750, -86.770
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Grant | 1956-03-06 | Direct |
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
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: 10005183, 10005184, 10005185, 10005186, 10005187, 10005188, 10005189, 10005190, 10005191.