Indiana

Storm History: Brown County, Indiana

209 episodes, 259 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown 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
259
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$3.2 million
Episodes
209

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
Tornado5902$1.4 million
Hail4400$79,000
Flash Flood4200$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind3502$62,000
Winter Storm1900
Flood1900$25,000
Heavy Snow1200
Drought1200
High Wind400$1,000
Ice Storm410$15,000
Wildfire200$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dense Fog100
Lightning101
Heat100
Blizzard100
Frost/Freeze100$100,000
Excessive Heat100

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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown 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.