Indiana

Storm History: Clark County, Indiana

317 episodes, 535 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clark 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
535
Deaths
8
Injuries
48
Damage
$333 million
Episodes
317

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
Flash Flood13620$445,000
Hail12500$93,000
Tornado110341$312 million
Thunderstorm Wind9304$215,000
Heavy Snow2000
Flood2000$20 million
Winter Storm900
High Wind620$50,000
Ice Storm600
Frost/Freeze500
Blizzard200
Winter Weather113$20,000
Heat100
Heavy Rain100

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 Clark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clark CountyEvery warning in Clark 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.