SPC Stats
Path length: 0.5 miles
Width: 200 yards
Fatalities: 0
Injuries: 22
Rating: F3
County: Shelby
Eight tornadoes pressed through parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on July 28, 1961. Two of those tornadoes were given a rating F3. The topic of this summary is on the F3 that quickly hit Sidney, OH. The path length was only 1/2 mile. It struck the Stewart subdivision in the SW edge of town. 10 homes were destroyed, 7 damaged. The tornado skipped to the downtown area causing damage to several buildings. The Sidney Machine Tool Company plant sustained heavy damage.
Per Thomas Grazulis in Significant Tornadoes, most of the leveled homes were prefabricated homes. Some were unroofed and others had walls blown out.
Tornado Path
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SPC coordinates: Start: 40.18 / -84.82
Note: Exact tornado path may not be straight and/or continuous.
Newspaper Clippings
Sources:
July 1961 Storm Data Publication
Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films. Page 1038.
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