Tornado, Randolph
- When
- June 11, 7:20 PM EST to 7:25 PM EST
- Where
- Randolph County, Winchester to 2 mi W of Union City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.170, -84.950
Tornado in Indiana, June 11, 1998
The fourth and final tornado (in Indiana) spawned from a single supercell initially touched down just east of Winchester and lifted just west of Union City which is on the Ohio state line. This final tornado destroyed a trailer and damaged numerous trees.
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
- $10,000
- 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.
The fourth and final tornado (in Indiana) spawned from a single supercell initially touched down just east of Winchester and lifted just west of Union City which is on the Ohio state line. This final tornado destroyed a trailer and damaged numerous trees.
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.
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More
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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: 5655573.