We just a half mile from the center of that tornado in Elkhart, Ind. One of the most terrifying days of our lives. The other was when I drove over the Donner Pass in a white-out blizzard with no snow tires.
My mother was a reporter for the South Bend Tribune at the time and wrote endless articles about the double tornadoes that ravaged our area. She worked with Paul Huffman who captured the double funnel in a photo seen round the world.
“Remember that day....The sky was the strangest shade of green I’ve seen before or since.”
BTW, just noticed your post, I lived in South Bend at the time.