Tornado, Clay
- When
- May 8, 2:38 PM EST to 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Clay County, Brazil to 4 mi NE of Brazil
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 39.570, -87.170
Tornado in Indiana, May 8, 1996
A weak tornado touched down near Perth and traveled east producing most damage near Carbon. One home and two mobile homes were destroyed.
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
- $250,000
- 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.
A weak tornado touched down near Perth and traveled east producing most damage near Carbon. One home and two mobile homes were destroyed. Three other homes suffered significant damage. Several grain bins were moved or blown over. Numerous telephone poles were snapped and numerous trees were blown down.
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:39 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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- Flash Flood in Illinois, May 8, 1996
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- Tornado in Kentucky, May 8, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, May 8, 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: 5556318.