Tornado, Lagrange
- When
- May 18, 9:38 PM EST to 9:39 PM EST
- Where
- Lagrange County, 43 mi NW of Lagrange
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $1.5 million
- Coordinates
- 42.080, -86.000
Tornado in Indiana, May 18, 1997
Highway 9 near county road 200N near Lagrange, tornado picked upsheriffs car and spun it around, minor injury to deputy fromflying glass. Several trailers and cars in vicinity damaged.
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
- 1
- Property damage
- $1.5 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 IWX wrote it up.
Highway 9 near county road 200N near Lagrange, tornado picked upsheriffs car and spun it around, minor injury to deputy fromflying glass. Several trailers and cars in vicinity damaged.
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
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- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 18, 1997
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 18, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, May 18, 1997
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 18, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 18, 1997
More
Every storm in Indiana in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Indiana, 1997Warnings in Indiana, May 1997
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: 5598628.