Here are some of our biggest tornado outbreaks between the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (roughly December 22-March 21).
February 25, 1956: 9 tornadoes struck central and southern Indiana, injuring 4 people.
March 6, 1956: 7 tornadoes struck northern Indiana with an additional tornado in southern Indiana. 1 person was killed and 35 were injured, mostly in Grant county where a F4 occurred.
February 10, 1959: 5 tornadoes hit central and southern Indiana, the strongest being F3 in Knox county.
March 6, 1961: 10 tornadoes occurred, injuring 8 people.
March 19, 1963: 4 tornadoes occurred with 3 of them being F2. 2 people were killed in Washington county.
March 12, 1976: 13 tornadoes struck mainly the northern half of the state, resulting in 2 fatalities and over 40 injuries. This is the biggest winter tornado outbreak on record.
March 20, 1976: Occurring barely a week after the March 12 outbreak, this event produced 8 tornadoes including a F4 in Tippecanoe county which tracked into Carroll county. 18 people were injured in all.
March 10, 1986: 8 tornadoes occurred, injuring 48 people. Also, 1 person was killed in Hancock county.
January 7, 1989: 3 tornadoes struck southern Indiana, injuring 5 people. One of them, rated F4, crossed from Illinois into Knox county.
January 29, 2008: 5 tornadoes touched down making it our biggest January tornado outbreak on record.
3 people were killed in 2 separate tornadoes, one of which affected parts of Knox/Gibson counties and the other in Clark county.
March 8, 2009: 5 tornadoes occurred including an EF3 in Lawrence county which caused 1 injury.
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