injured as the storm moved to the south of Van Wert. Some of this same area was hit by another F4 tornado on November 10, 2002. Fenton, Michigan The third and final F4 tornado in Michigan this day touched down west-northwest of Fenton at about 7:30 p.m. EDT, shortly before "8 o' clock," though one estimate suggested a time of 6:00 p.m. EDT. The tornado first destroyed a barn, a farmhouse, and a school as it moved northeast. It then struck a cement plant and demolished a smokestack and destroyed the steel-framed kiln room, reportedly warping and twisting the steel bars "so badly...that it is probable that the enclosure will have to be rebuilt." Total losses reached $100,000 at the plant. Afterward, the intensifying tornado leveled farm buildings and killed two horses and several other livestock; it left cows unharmed but pinned under debris. The F4 tornado then struck and completely leveled about 30 lakeside summer homes, many of them large and well-built structures worth $3,000–$6,000 to build at the time. Intense winds lifted boats up to from their moorings and carried entire homes several hundred feet from their foundations. In the summer, according to the Fenton Independent, there would have been "hundreds of people camping at the lake. Should the accident have occurred at that time there would have been hundreds of deaths." In all, the powerful tornado killed four people and damaged or destroyed 35 buildings near Fenton. One of the deaths occurred in an overturned car, among the earliest tornado-related deaths in an automobile; the earliest known such death was probably on May 19, 1918, in Iowa. See also List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak – Catastrophic outbreak that affected the same region as the 1920 outbreak 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak – Produced deadly, long-lived tornadoes over the Southeastern United States Notes References Press Pool. "Reconstruction Starts In Storm Area Where 22 Died." Toledo Blade. March 31, 1920. Retrieved on April 17, 2001. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center / Storm Prediction Center. F4 tornadoes by date ,1920-03-28 Tornadoes of 1920 Tornadoes in Indiana Tornadoes in Wisconsin Tornadoes in Alabama Tornadoes in Ohio Tornadoes in Georgia (U.S. state) Tornadoes in Michigan Tornado outbreaks Tornado,1920-03-28 1920 March 1920 events