Tornado, Elkhart
- When
- May 6, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Elkhart County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.730, -85.950
Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, May 6, 1961
3 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 5
- Property damage
- $5.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
3 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, St. Joseph
- When
- May 6, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- St. Joseph County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -86.280
Hail, Whitley
- When
- May 6, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Whitley County
- Measured
- 9.99 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.200, -85.500
Tornado, Lagrange
- When
- May 6, 8:02 PM CST
- Where
- Lagrange County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 11 mi
- Path width
- 800 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.530, -85.420
Tornado, Steuben
- When
- May 6, 8:25 PM CST
- Where
- Steuben County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 20.5 mi
- Path width
- 800 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.550, -85.200
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, May 6, 1961
- Tornado in Ohio, May 6, 1961
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 6, 1961
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 6, 1961
- Tornado in Colorado, May 6, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 6, 1961
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 6, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 6, 1961
- Hail in Texas, May 6, 1961
- Hail in Michigan, May 6, 1961
More
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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: 10006055, 10006056, 10006057, 10006058, 10006059.