Indiana

Storm History: Allen County, Indiana

458 episodes, 905 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Allen 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
905
Deaths
11
Injuries
46
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
458

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail340110$5.8 million
Tornado211226$7.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind13518$623,000
Flash Flood6501$5.5 million
Winter Weather3831
Winter Storm2810
Flood2600$7.1 million
High Wind2200$72,000
Heavy Snow2000
Ice Storm700$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill510
Blizzard310
Lake-Effect Snow200
Dense Fog100
Lightning110
Strong Wind100$1,000

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Allen County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Allen CountyEvery warning in Allen 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.