Tornado, Wabash
- When
- April 17, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Wabash County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 13 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.980, -85.770
Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, April 17, 1963
5 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 20
- Property damage
- $3.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
5 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Newton
- When
- April 17, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 16.1 mi
- Path width
- 110 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 41.130, -87.530
Hail, St. Joseph
- When
- April 17, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- St. Joseph County
- Measured
- 3.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -86.280
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- April 17, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 16.2 mi
- Path width
- 110 yd
- Injuries
- 16 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.120, -87.250
Tornado, Huntington
- When
- April 17, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Huntington County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.970, -85.420
Tornado, Pulaski
- When
- April 17, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Pulaski County
- Rating
- F4
- Path width
- 110 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 41.100, -86.900
Hail, Allen
- When
- April 17, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Allen County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.000, -85.180
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
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 17, 1963
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, April 17, 1963
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Ohio, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 17, 1963
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Texas, April 17, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 17, 1963
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: 10002764, 10002765, 10002766, 10002767, 10002768, 10002769, 10002770.