Tornado, Lawrence
- When
- April 19, 11:57 PM EST to April 20, 12:03 AM EST
- Where
- Lawrence County, Bedford to 6 mi NE of Bedford
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 38.930, -86.400
Tornado in Indiana, April 19 to 20, 1996
Weak tornado touched down near Heltonville damaging several homes and numerous trees. Tornado also associated with a downbusrt wind damage in same general area.
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
- $100,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS IND wrote it up.
Weak tornado touched down near Heltonville damaging several homes and numerous trees. Tornado also associated with a downbusrt wind damage in same general area. Downburst winds and damage were as severe as the tornadoes.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:59 UTC.
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
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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: 5549673.