Tornado, Vermillion
- When
- May 28, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Vermillion County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.880, -87.420
Tornadoes in Indiana, May 28, 1973
3 tornado, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Marshall
- When
- May 28, 1:02 PM CST
- Where
- Marshall County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.350, -86.330
Tornado, Steuben
- When
- May 28, 1:55 PM CST
- Where
- Steuben County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -85.600
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 Georgia, May 28, 1973
- Tornadoes in New Jersey, May 28, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 28, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 28, 1973
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, May 28, 1973
- Tornado in Virginia, May 28, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 28, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 28, 1973
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 28, 1973
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: 10019364, 10019365, 10019366.