From this morning's
The Indianapolis Star headline:
Tornado kills 22 in southern Indiana - Sunday's twister is state's deadliest in 30 yearsHere's the accompanying
photo gallery.
Apparently the tornado, an F3 (winds of 158-206 mph) on the Fujita scale, which was reported to be nearly 1/4 of a mile wide by a couple of witnesses, busted three common myths:
1 - It struck in the middle of the night.
2 - It struck in November.
3 - It crossed the Ohio River.
Evansville is just under 200 miles (as the crow flies) south-southwest of where we live (it's in the
toe in the SW corner of the state, and we're right about in the middle), so, even if we'd have been home, we weren't threatened by that particular tornado (although there is a recorded incident of one crossing from Missouri, through Illinois, and well into Indiana back in the 1920s).