VU professor recounts tornado hit from 1917

VALPARAISO —The “most intense” tornado to hit Porter County followed a path along Ind. 8 from Hebron to Kouts on May 26, 1917. The 1917 tornado, which killed five people in Porter County and today would be rated a severe EF-4 storm, was one of 63 tornadoes in one of the worst tornado outbreaks in…