Indiana

Storm History: Blackford County, Indiana

159 episodes, 199 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Blackford 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
199
Deaths
0
Injuries
26
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
159

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
Hail5800$132,000
Tornado40026$25 million
Winter Storm2200
Winter Weather2000
Heavy Snow1400
Thunderstorm Wind1300$75,000
High Wind900
Flash Flood800$225,000
Flood500
Ice Storm400$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard200

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Blackford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Blackford CountyEvery warning in Blackford 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.