Tornado in Indiana, April 30, 1997

Name: Tornado in Indiana, April 30, 1997
Start: 1997-04-30T21:00
End: 1997-04-30T21:30
Location: Indiana

April 30, 1997 · NWS LMK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $300,000
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.

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:42 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Perry

When: April 30, 9:00 PM EST to 9:30 PM EST
Where: Perry County, Bristow to 4 mi of Oriole
Measured: 50
Rating: F1
Path length: 15 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $300,000
Coordinates: 38.100, -86.770

An F1 tornado cut a 15 mile path across north central Perry county. The hardest hit areas were Apalona and Branchville. 2 mobile homes were destroyed in Apalona, and numerous roofs were lifted off houses in Branchville. Also, numerous trees were blown down with twisting evident on photographs sent by local DES.

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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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: 5596326.