Tornado, Lake
- When
- July 13, 9:54 AM CST
- Where
- Lake County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -87.420
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 13, 1966
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- 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
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hendricks
- When
- July 13, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Hendricks County
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -86.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Delaware
- When
- July 13, 1:18 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -85.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Hamilton
- When
- July 13, 1:22 PM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County
- Measured
- 80 kt (92 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -86.180
Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- July 13, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -84.780
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Wisconsin, July 13, 1966
- Tornado in Maine, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 13, 1966
- Tornado in New Hampshire, July 13, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, July 13, 1966
- Hail in Florida, July 13, 1966
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: 10006161, 10006162, 10006163, 10006164, 10006165.