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ID	98133
Title of Article	Council honors first responders after storm
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Mayor Rod Roberson, first responders and emergency management teams
Date	Aug 08, 2024
Page	A1
Subjects	Tornadoes, Elkhart City Council, Disaster Relief, American Red Cross

ID	97599
Title of Article	City: About half of trees, brush from storm collected
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Burning brush pile
Date	Jul 25, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Tornadoes, Elkhart County

ID	97209
Title of Article	Recovery from tornado continues
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Pedro Gonzalez grinds tree branches
Date	Jul 19, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Tornadoes, Elkhart, IN, Elkhart County, American Red Cross

ID	97203
Title of Article	Emergency declared after tornado
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Southdale Drive closed; surveying tornado damage in south Elkhart; map shows the path of a tornado
Date	Jul 18, 2024
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Elkhart, Tornadoes, Elkhart County, National Weather Service

ID	97197
Title of Article	‘This is bad’
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Pleasant Plain Ave blocked by fallen trees and power lines; tree top snapped off at Beveridge and Pleasant Plain avenues; fallen tree struck home at south end of Goshen
Date	Jul 17, 2024
Page	A1, A6
Subjects	Tornadoes, Elkhart, Elkhart County, National Weather Service

ID	80095
Title of Article	Museum hosts premier of book by Janis Thornton on infamous 1965 tornadoes
Notes	Paul Huffman
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Cover of Janis Thornton book
Date	May 10, 2022
Page	A5
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Elkhart County Historical Museum, Elkhart Truth

ID	80079
Title of Article	Story about 1965 tornadoes hits bookstores
Notes	Janis Thornton; Paul Huffman
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	May 07, 2022
Page	B6
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Photographers, Elkhart Truth

ID	72161
Title of Article	Two EF-1 tornadoes confirmed by weather service
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Grain bin near Wakarusa
Date	Aug 12, 2020
Page	A1
Subjects	Tornadoes, National Weather Service

ID	64298
Title of Article	Tornado confirmed east of Warsaw
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	August 8, 2018
Page	A1
Subjects	Tornadoes, Warsaw, IN, Weather

ID	61579
Title of Article	County observes 'Severe Weather Preparedness'
Notes	Severe Weather Preparedness Week
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	March 22, 2017
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Nappanee Town Council, Tornadoes, National Weather Service

ID	61195
Title of Article	A start to Elkhart County's all-time Top 10
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes; 'Speedy', the Alka-Seltzer mascot
Date	December 27, 2016
Page	A3
Subjects	Elkhart County, Miles Laboratories, Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965)

ID	59341
Title of Article	Earthquake, tsunami and now tornado no match for 85-year-old
Notes	Suzann Young-Davis
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Suzann Young-Davis; Damage from tornado
Date	January 18, 2016
Page	A1, A3
Subjects	Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Storms

ID	57400
Title of Article	Memories of tornadoes draws record crowd
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	May 18, 2015
Page	A3
Subjects	Old Timers Meeting (Middlebury), Middlebury, IN, Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	56392
Title of Article	Time to reflect 50 years later
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Brenda Ford Elliott; Memorial site
Date	April 12, 2015
Page	A1
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes, Memorial Service

ID	56115
Title of Article	WGN-TV will feature 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	April 5, 2015
Page	A3
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes, Television/TV, WGN 9 (Chicago)

ID	56114
Title of Article	Volunteers clean memorial site
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Debbie Watters
Date	April 5, 2015
Page	A3
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes, Memorial Service

ID	55970
Title of Article	Victims of Palm Sunday tornadoes to be remembered at memorial service
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Memorial plot of land
Date	April 3, 2015
Page	A3
Subjects	Palm, J. Arthur, Rev., Tornadoes, Memorial Service

ID	55878
Title of Article	The lasting image of the Palm Sunday tornadoes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Twin tornadoes
Date	March 30, 2015
Page	A4
Subjects	Palm, J. Arthur, Rev., Tornadoes

ID	55889
Title of Article	Storm alerts are now easier and quicker
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Overturned manufactured home
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A10
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes, National Weather Service, Technology

ID	55888
Title of Article	Why fatality reports varied day-to-day
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A7
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55887
Title of Article	Remembering those we lost in storm
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	List of victims
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A7
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55886
Title of Article	Vivid Memories
Notes	Penny Young; Susan Yoder Bullock; Pam Jackson; Estella Pepper Cox; Brenda Ford Elliott
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Tornado on US 33; Lyndon Johnson in Dunlap; spoon wrapped around a tree limb; relief workers; Brenda Elliott at gravesite
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A6, A7
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55885
Title of Article	County storm dead 52
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Reproduction of April 12, 1965 cover of Elkhart Truth
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A5
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55881
Title of Article	'Once in a lifetime is enough'
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Gene Coney
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55879
Title of Article	Forever Changed: Palm Sunday tornadoes resonate 50 years later
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Twin tornadoes; people in Goshen ambulance; bicycle wrapped around laundry post; illustration of map showing the path of the tornadoes
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55880
Title of Article	Pain of loss never goes away
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Becky Spradlin-Lawrence
Date	March 29, 2015
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	55161
Title of Article	Throwback ... Tuesday? Old Truth photos show history
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Ask at Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Elkhart Memorial Day Parade 1918; Robert Kennedy's visit; Aftermath of the Palm Sunday tornadoes
Date	October 28, 2014
Page	C1
Subjects	History, Elkhart County, Elkhart Truth

ID	54112
Title of Article	Pages from our past: April 12, 1965 (Palm Sunday tornado)
Notes	Reprinted as part of a series of yearlong historic front pages to celebrate the quasquicentennial of the paper (125 years) Source: Elkhart Truth
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	April 13, 2014
Page	E5
Subjects	Elkhart Truth, Tornadoes, Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965)

ID	54015
Title of Article	Museum to commemorate 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of tornado
Date	April 6, 2014
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Elkhart County Historical Museum, Tornadoes

ID	53890
Title of Article	Tracking tornadoes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	March 20, 2014
Page	A3
Subjects	Native Americans, Tornadoes

ID	53215
Title of Article	Residents better warned
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of 2007 Nappanee tornado damage
Date	November 11, 2013
Page	A3
Subjects	Disaster Warning System, Disaster Preparedness, Tornadoes, Jefferson Township

ID	52634
Title of Article	Bristol equipped with new tornado sirens
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of new siren
Date	August 19, 2013
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Disaster Preparedness, Tornadoes, Bristol, IN

ID	52221
Title of Article	Lippert employees return from tornado relief work in Oklahoma
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Mike Pierce
Date	June 14, 2013
Page	A3
Subjects	Lipps, Frank P., Tornadoes

ID	52201
Title of Article	Salvation Army officer to take part in tornado relief effort
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Maj. Karen Hanton
Date	June 12, 2013
Page	C1
Subjects	Salvation Army, Tornadoes

ID	52094
Title of Article	Six Lippert employees headed to Oklahoma to help tornado relief
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Date	May 31, 2013
Page	C1, C2
Subjects	Lippert Extrusion, Tornadoes

ID	52081
Title of Article	Elkhart-area volunteers provide relief to Okla. tornado victims
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm â€“ Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo
Date	May 29, 2013
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Tornadoes, Volunteer Work

ID	50953
Title of Article	Survivors celebrate life after 2007 tornado
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos
Date	October 19, 2012
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes

ID	50943
Title of Article	After the tornado, residents came together to heal each other
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Jill Mishler
Date	October 18, 2012
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes

ID	50932
Title of Article	Nappanee emergency workers, volunteers reflect on tornado
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Mayor Larry Thompson
Date	October 15, 2012
Page	A3
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes

ID	50930
Title of Article	One community, two ways of rebuilding after the tornado
Notes	Two articles
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos
Date	October 15, 2012
Page	A1, A2
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes, Government, Nappanee Town, Amish Community

ID	50926
Title of Article	Recovered, but not the same five years after tornado
Notes	Two separate articles
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos
Date	October 14, 2012
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes

ID	50918
Title of Article	Upcoming events in Nappanee to remember 2007 tornado
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	October 12, 2012
Page	A1
Subjects	Nappanee Tornado (2007), Tornadoes, Nappanee, IN

ID	50087
Title of Article	Experts: Elkhart County prepared for tornadoes
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of Goshen storm siren
Date	April 23, 2012
Page	A3
Subjects	Tornadoes, Disaster Preparedness, Government, Elkhart County

ID	46008
Title of Article	Cleanup is moving along
Notes	Storm of June 23, 2010
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos of cleanup in Goshen
Date	July 8, 2010
Page	A3
Subjects	Tornadoes, Storms, Weather

ID	45962
Title of Article	Storm cleanup may take a while
Notes	Article relating to storm on 6/23/10
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	June 26, 2010
Page	A1, A8
Subjects	Tornadoes, Storms, Weather

ID	45960
Title of Article	It was a dark and stormy night
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Photos of storm damage
Date	June 25, 2010
Page	C1
Subjects	Tornadoes, Storms, Weather

ID	45954
Title of Article	A county in recovery
Notes	Several articles relating to Wed., 6/23 storm
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	Photos of storm damage
Date	June 25, 2010
Page	A1, A7
Subjects	Tornadoes, Storms, Weather

ID	45666
Title of Article	Goshen will upgrade its tornado sirens
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Date	May 19, 2010
Page	A3
Subjects	Tornadoes, Disaster Warning System, Goshen City Council

ID	44997
Title of Article	Survivors remember those killed in the Palm Sunday twisters 45 years ago
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photo of event
Date	April 12, 2010
Page	A1
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Tornadoes

ID	38936
Title of Article	Through more than a century of disasters, they were there.
Source	Elkhart Truth
Location	Microfilm - Reference Desk
Picture Caption	photos of blizzard, tornado
Date	August 25, 2008
Page	A3
Subjects	Palm Sunday Tornado (April 11, 1965), Blizzard of 1978, Tornadoes, Storms

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