Storm History: Adams County, Indiana
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adams County, Indiana: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 317
- Deaths
- 6
- Injuries
- 46
- Damage
- $36 million
- Episodes
- 245
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 106 | 0 | 0 | $478,000 |
| Tornado | 63 | 1 | 42 | $30 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 32 | 2 | 1 | $91,000 |
| Winter Storm | 27 | 1 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 26 | 1 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 15 | 0 | 2 | $450,000 |
| High Wind | 9 | 0 | 1 | $50,000 |
| Flood | 8 | 1 | 0 | $5.0 million |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Flood, July 5, 2003
- Tornado, August 26, 1986
- Tornado, May 14, 1970
- Tornado, June 2, 1980
- Tornado, March 16, 1982
- Tornado, July 2, 1992
- Tornado, July 12, 1992
- Flash Flood, August 4, 1998
- Lightning, April 14, 2006
- Tornado, May 30, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 22, 1998
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, August 28, 2006
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Hail, June 18, 1998
- Tornado, March 8, 2009
- Hail, May 25, 2006
- Hail, May 23, 1994
- Hail, June 16, 1994
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Tornado, December 21, 1967
- Tornado, June 20, 1974
- Tornado, June 2, 1980
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, August 24, 2016
- Tornado, March 18, 1953
- Tornado, July 4, 1957
- Tornado, July 5, 1980
- Tornado, August 26, 1986
- Tornado, July 2, 1992
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Tornado, July 26, 2005
Every episode, newest first
- High Wind, March 15, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2026
- Winter Storm, November 29, 2025
- Hail, June 18, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2024
- Tornado, March 14, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Hail, June 15, 2023
- Hail, April 5, 2023
- Flood, March 6, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 25, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 23, 2022
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Hail, June 13, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2022
- High Wind, December 11, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2021
- Flood, July 8, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 25, 2020
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 11, 2019
- Hail, August 8, 2019
- Tornado, May 23, 2019
- Hail, May 16, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 12, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 12, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2017
- Tornado, July 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 17, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2016
- Tornado, August 24, 2016
- Hail, July 13, 2016
- Hail, March 27, 2016
- Winter Weather, January 12, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2015
- Hail, May 11, 2015
- Winter Weather, March 3, 2015
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2015
- Hail, July 27, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2013
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Hail, June 27, 2013
- Hail, June 12, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 26, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 21, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 27, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2012
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2012
- Tornado, August 4, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2012
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2012
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Hail, August 13, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Hail, May 10, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flood, February 28, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2011
- Lightning, June 8, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Hail, August 11, 2009
- Tornado, March 8, 2009
- High Wind, February 11, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2009
- Ice Storm, December 18, 2008
- Hail, June 15, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2008
- Tornado, May 30, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2008
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 9, 2007
- Tornado, August 15, 2007
- Hail, June 8, 2007
- Ice Storm, February 24, 2007
- Blizzard, February 13, 2007
- Tornado, August 28, 2006
- Hail, June 22, 2006
- Hail, May 30, 2006
- Hail, May 25, 2006
- Lightning, April 14, 2006
- Hail, April 14, 2006
- Tornado, April 7, 2006
- Hail, March 31, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2005
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Tornado, August 13, 2005
- Tornado, July 26, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2005
- Hail, June 5, 2005
- Hail, May 13, 2005
- Dense Fog, January 12, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2004
- Hail, May 23, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- High Wind, March 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2004
- High Wind, November 12, 2003
- Tornado, August 26, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2003
- Flood, July 5, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2003
- Hail, July 4, 2003
- Hail, April 30, 2003
- Hail, April 4, 2003
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2002
- Hail, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, September 20, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 18, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2002
- Hail, June 4, 2002
- Hail, May 25, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Hail, August 22, 2001
- Hail, August 18, 2001
- Flood, July 21, 2001
- Hail, May 15, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2000
- Hail, August 2, 2000
- Hail, June 13, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 9, 2000
- Hail, May 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 9, 2000
- Hail, May 9, 2000
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 1999
- Flood, January 22, 1999
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 6, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 6, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1998
- Flash Flood, August 4, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 22, 1998
- Flood, July 21, 1998
- Tornado, July 19, 1998
- Hail, June 26, 1998
- Hail, June 18, 1998
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 29, 1998
- Tornado, May 19, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 8, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 2, 1996
- Hail, June 26, 1995
- Hail, June 23, 1995
- Tornado, June 7, 1995
- Hail, June 17, 1994
- Hail, June 16, 1994
- Hail, May 23, 1994
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Tornado, July 12, 1992
- Tornado, July 2, 1992
- Tornado, June 17, 1992
- Hail, May 17, 1992
- Hail, July 8, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1991
- Tornado, May 25, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1988
- Tornado, August 26, 1986
- Tornado, July 12, 1986
- Hail, July 11, 1986
- Hail, May 6, 1986
- Tornado, June 13, 1984
- Hail, September 6, 1983
- Tornado, June 28, 1983
- Tornado, May 2, 1983
- Hail, June 15, 1982
- Hail, May 19, 1982
- Tornado, March 16, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 1980
- Tornado, July 5, 1980
- Tornado, June 2, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 11, 1980
- Tornado, July 15, 1976
- Tornado, June 20, 1974
- Hail, June 6, 1971
- Tornado, June 14, 1970
- Tornado, May 14, 1970
- Tornado, April 20, 1968
- Tornado, December 21, 1967
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 1966
- Tornado, May 26, 1965
- Tornado, April 11, 1965
- Tornado, July 4, 1957
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 1956
- Tornado, March 18, 1953
More
Tornadoes in Adams CountyEvery warning in Adams County since 1986Every county in Indiana
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.