Tornado, Howard
- When
- July 17, 5:02 PM EST to 5:05 PM EST
- Where
- Howard County, Kokomo to 6 mi SW of Kokomo
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.1 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Property damage
- $65,000
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- Coordinates
- 40.420, -86.220
Tornado in Indiana, July 17, 1996
Tornado blew down dozens of trees and destroyed one barn. Trees damaged several homes.
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
- $65,000
- Crop damage
- $2,000
- 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.
Tornado blew down dozens of trees and destroyed one barn. Trees damaged several homes. A semi-tractor trailer was blown off highway 26 on west side of Russiaville by tornado. Two high power transmission towers were twisted and felled. Tornado tracked from just west of Russiaville to between Russiaville and New London.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:00 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
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, July 17, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, July 17, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 17, 1996
- Heavy Rain in North Dakota, July 17, 1996
- Heat in South Carolina, July 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 17, 1996
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 17, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Illinois, July 17 to 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1996Warnings in Indiana, July 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: 5558362.