Here is a project I completed in 2013, plotting recorded tornadoes in the modern-day city limits of West Lafayette & Lafayette:
Counties in the survey include:
Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, Benton, White, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Cass, Miami, Warren, Fountain, Montgomery, Clinton, Howard counties.
I did go ahead include Tipton & Boone counties.
Date, Tornado Track, Persons Killed, Number Injured
Pre-1580s? Vermillion, Parke Montgomery
Pre-1616? Carroll
M/M/~1800 Montgomery, Parke, Vigo 0 0
6/2/1833 Tippecanoe 0 0
5/3/1835 Tippecanoe 0 1
M/M/1836 White 0 0
M/M/1838 Tipton “Several” ?
M/M/1838 Howard
10/0/1840 Newton 3 1
7/1/1845 Cass
3/20/1849 Warren
M/M/1851 Cass 1 1
M/M/1852 White 0 0
11/21/1856 Fountain 1 2
5/0/1858 Fountain
6/0/1858 Tippecanoe 2 0
M/M/1859 Miami 0 0
8/2/1859 Tippecanoe 0 2
4/4/1862 Cass
Summer 1863 Jasper 0 0
1/19/1866 Tippecanoe
3/20/1866 Montgomery 4 “Others....More or Less Injured”
3/20/1866 Boone
3/20/1866 Tippecanoe
12/23/1871 Tippecanoe 0 2
4/11/1872 Tippecanoe
M/M/1873 Carroll
7/27/1875 Fountain 7 1
7/27/1875 Boone 4 14
4/1/1877 Cass
9/25/1878 Boone 0 “Many Persons Injured”
3/4/1880 Tippecanoe 0 2
6/14/1880 Clinton 4 “Many”
6/14/1880 Clinton 0 0
M/M/1881 or
M/M/1882 Cass
5/18/1883 Tippecanoe
3/25/1884 Tippecanoe
5/12/1886 Warren, Fountain 9 21
5/12/1886 Warren 0 0
5/12/1886 Benton
5/12/1886 Tipton 0 4
5/12/1886 Tipton 0 4
5/12/1886 Tipton 2 12
5/12/1886 Carroll
5/12/1886 Miami
5/12/1886 White
8/12/1886 Fountain
8/15/1886 Warrick
9/16/1886 Fountain
4/5/1888 Carroll
8/6/1888 Tipton, Madison
6/16/1889 Montgomery
4/12/1893 Howard “Heavy Damages and Loss of Life”
4/12/1893 Vermillion “Heavy Damages and Loss of Life”
4/13/1894 Fountain
5/17/1894 Miami
8/12/1895 Jasper
6/19/1897 Tippecanoe 0 1
M/M/1897 or
M/M/1898 Tippecanoe 0 1
6/25/1902 Clinton
6/25/1902 Boone
5/22/1903 Pulaski 0
3/25/1904 Miami
8/6/1905 Howard
4/8/1906 Cass
4/5/1909 Cass, Miami 1 ?
10/14/1911 Fountain
10/14/1911 Fountain
11/11/1911 Tippecanoe
11/11/1911 Carroll
11/11/1911 Montgomery
4/22/1912 Newton 10 79
3/23/1913 Tippecanoe ? 3
4/27/1914 Newton
3/22/1916 White, Cass 4 +100
3/23/1917 Howard, Grant 0 1
3/28/1920 Newton
4/18/1922 Warren 13 +150
4/18/1922 Newton 2 ?
3/10/1925 Tippecanoe
3/10/1925 Cass, Fulton
4/13/1925 Howard
5/21/1925 Montgomery
5/18/1926 Tippecanoe
6/4/1927 Miami
7/21/1928 Howard
8/27/1931 Carroll
7/7/1932 Miami
5/13/1933 Tippecanoe 1 ?
6/10/1939 Benton, Newton 1 7
6/20/1942 Clinton, Howard 4 "Many Persons Injured"
3/27/1948 Warren
3/27/1948 Warren
4/7/1948 Fountain, Tippecanoe 0 4
