Indiana

Storm History: Daviess County, Indiana

332 episodes, 415 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Daviess 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
415
Deaths
0
Injuries
39
Damage
$78 million
Episodes
332

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
Tornado86038$18 million
Flood8500$58 million
Hail8200$249,000
Flash Flood6700$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind4201$293,000
Winter Storm1700
Heavy Snow1100
Drought900
High Wind500$10
Ice Storm300$250
Excessive Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dense Fog100
Heat100
Blizzard100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Daviess County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Daviess CountyEvery warning in Daviess 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.