Tornado, Scott
- When
- August 9, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.680, -85.770
Tornado in Indiana, August 9, 1968
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
- 1
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
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Massachusetts, August 9, 1968
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in New York, August 9, 1968
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 9, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, August 9, 1968
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 9, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Georgia, August 9, 1968
- Tornado in Florida, August 9, 1968
- Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, August 9, 1968
- Hail in Wisconsin, August 9, 1968
- Hail in Kansas, August 9, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 9, 1968
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: 10006581.