Hail, Lake
- When
- April 25, 9:20 AM EST
- Where
- Lake County, Hammond
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 41.472, -87.376 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Tornado and Hail in Indiana, April 25, 1994
1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- $55,000
- 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
1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Lake
- When
- April 25, 9:40 AM EST to 9:43 AM EST
- Where
- Lake County, Beecher Il to Cedar Lake in
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 41.472, -87.376 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The tornado moved from Illinois into Indiana four miles west of Cedar Lake at 0940 EST and lifted three miles west of Cedar Lake at 0943 EST. The tornado damaged several farm buildings and knocked down a row of pine trees.
Thunderstorm Wind, Porter
- When
- April 25, 9:55 AM EST
- Where
- Porter County, Portage
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 41.509, -87.073 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and power lines.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
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- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 25, 1994
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, April 25, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 25, 1994
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, April 25, 1994
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 25, 1994
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in California, April 25, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 25, 1994
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, April 25, 1994
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, April 25, 1994
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 25, 1994
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1994Every state in 1994This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1994Warnings in Indiana, April 1994
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: 10322204, 10322205, 10322030.