Tornado, Spencer
- When
- May 3, 7:55 PM CST to 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Spencer County, Dale
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 75 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 38.170, -86.980
Tornado in Indiana, May 3, 1996
Barns were blown down, a business was damaged, and roofs were blown off.
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
- $50,000
- 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 PAH wrote it up.
Barns were blown down, a business was damaged, and roofs were blown off.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Lightning Strike in Iowa, May 3, 1996
- Hail in Kentucky, May 3, 1996
- Hail in Indiana, May 3, 1996
- Hail in Illinois, May 3, 1996
- Hail in Illinois, May 3, 1996
- Hail in Illinois, May 3, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, May 3, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, May 3, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 3, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, May 3, 1996
- High Wind in Alaska, May 3 to 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, May 3, 1996
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1996Warnings in Indiana, May 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: 5554765.