Tornado, Decatur
- When
- April 20, 1:01 AM EST to 1:03 AM EST
- Where
- Decatur County, Greensburg to 3 mi S of Greensburg
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $1.2 million
- Coordinates
- 39.280, -85.480
Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
Weak tornado destroyed several buildings and damaged several more. Numerous trees were uprooted also.
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
- $1.2 million
- 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 destroyed several buildings and damaged several more. Numerous trees were uprooted also. This storm was one of two to produce significant damage in the county.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:59 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
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 20, 1996
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Flood in Michigan, April 20 to 27, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1996Warnings in Indiana, April 1996
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: 5546390.