Indiana

Storm History: Fulton County, Indiana

250 episodes, 339 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fulton 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
339
Deaths
10
Injuries
162
Damage
$6.7 million
Episodes
250

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
Hail9820$352,000
Tornado676158$5.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind4701$93,000
Winter Storm3000
Winter Weather2500
Flash Flood1622$493,000
Heavy Snow1600
Flood1101$258,000
High Wind1000
Ice Storm600$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Blizzard300
Lake-Effect Snow200
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dense Fog100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Fulton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Fulton CountyEvery warning in Fulton 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.