Indiana

Storms in Indiana in 2023

1,128 events in 147 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Indiana in 2023, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Indiana in 2023 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Indiana

The year

Events
1,128
Deaths
15
Injuries
38
Damage
$69 million
Episodes
147

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind46604$1.1 million
Hail26305$11 million
Tornado65621$45 million
Excessive Heat5800
Flood4732$153,000
Strong Wind4400$36,000
Winter Weather3000
High Wind2900$285,000
Flash Flood2520$11 million
Drought2400
Heavy Snow2300
Heat1800
Winter Storm1204
Frost/Freeze600
Heavy Rain500
Lightning401
Rip Current441
Funnel Cloud200
Freezing Fog200
Ice Storm100

Every episode, month by month

January 2023

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December 2023

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.