Storm History: Hancock County, Indiana
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
- 403
- Deaths
- 4
- Injuries
- 58
- Damage
- $63 million
- Episodes
- 302
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 111 | 0 | 0 | $265,000 |
| Tornado | 96 | 2 | 48 | $59 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 47 | 0 | 7 | $138,000 |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 0 | 0 | $466,000 |
| Flood | 32 | 0 | 0 | $3.1 million |
| Winter Storm | 22 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 17 | 2 | 3 | $40,000 |
| High Wind | 8 | 0 | 0 | $90,000 |
| Drought | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 4 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 1 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Flood, April 29, 2009
- Tornado, March 10, 1986
- Tornado, September 20, 2002
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Tornado, May 30, 2008
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Lightning, September 4, 2000
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Tornado, March 29, 1951
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Tornado, November 22, 1992
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2002
- Tornado, February 27, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2021
- Hail, August 19, 2007
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2002
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, May 14, 1972
- Tornado, July 9, 1980
- Tornado, November 22, 1992
- Tornado, April 27, 1994
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Tornado, March 10, 1986
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Tornado, June 2, 1980
- Tornado, March 27, 1991
- Tornado, September 20, 2002
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, March 29, 1951
- Tornado, April 26, 1957
Every episode, newest first
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2026
- Tornado, June 16, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2026
- Flood, May 18, 2026
- Hail, March 22, 2026
- Tornado, February 19, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 14, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2025
- Tornado, June 18, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 4, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 20, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2023
- Hail, July 24, 2023
- Hail, July 17, 2023
- Hail, July 16, 2023
- Hail, July 2, 2023
- Hail, June 29, 2023
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2021
- Hail, March 25, 2021
- Winter Weather, March 15, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Flood, October 23, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2020
- Tornado, April 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2019
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Hail, August 18, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2019
- Tornado, June 15, 2019
- Tornado, May 27, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 2019
- Hail, May 16, 2019
- Tornado, February 7, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2019
- Ice Storm, November 14, 2018
- Hail, August 25, 2018
- Hail, June 16, 2018
- Flood, June 13, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2018
- Flood, June 23, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 28, 2017
- Hail, March 30, 2017
- Hail, March 20, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2016
- Flood, June 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2016
- Hail, May 29, 2016
- Tornado, May 1, 2016
- Hail, March 27, 2016
- Tornado, December 23, 2015
- Hail, September 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Hail, May 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2015
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 5, 2015
- Hail, May 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2014
- Flash Flood, December 21, 2013
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 31, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2013
- Blizzard, December 26, 2012
- High Wind, December 20, 2012
- Hail, September 21, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Flood, August 4, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, July 17, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Drought, June 12, 2012
- Tornado, May 1, 2012
- Hail, April 1, 2012
- Flood, March 30, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 3, 2011
- Hail, August 24, 2011
- Flood, August 13, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Hail, May 22, 2011
- Flood, April 4, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Tornado, February 27, 2011
- Ice Storm, February 1, 2011
- Drought, November 1, 2010
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Drought, October 1, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2010
- Flood, June 14, 2010
- Flood, June 13, 2010
- Hail, April 5, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Tornado, August 4, 2009
- Hail, July 25, 2009
- Hail, May 30, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2009
- Flood, April 29, 2009
- Flash Flood, February 11, 2009
- Tornado, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2009
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, June 26, 2008
- Hail, June 21, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2008
- Tornado, June 4, 2008
- Tornado, May 30, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Hail, August 19, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2007
- Flood, June 27, 2007
- Tornado, April 11, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2007
- Flash Flood, October 3, 2006
- Hail, July 18, 2006
- Hail, June 28, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2006
- Hail, May 18, 2006
- Tornado, April 14, 2006
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Flood, March 9, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2005
- Hail, September 19, 2005
- Flood, August 30, 2005
- Lightning, July 21, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Flood, January 3, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2004
- Tornado, May 30, 2004
- Hail, May 23, 2004
- Flood, January 4, 2004
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2003
- Tornado, July 21, 2003
- Hail, July 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2003
- Tornado, July 8, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2003
- Tornado, July 4, 2003
- Tornado, May 14, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2003
- Tornado, May 10, 2003
- Hail, May 6, 2003
- Hail, April 20, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2002
- Tornado, September 20, 2002
- Hail, September 18, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Tornado, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2000
- Hail, September 20, 2000
- Lightning, September 4, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 9, 2000
- Hail, August 6, 2000
- Tornado, June 20, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2000
- Flood, April 8, 2000
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2000
- Winter Storm, March 8, 1999
- Flood, January 22, 1999
- Flood, January 22, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 1998
- Hail, July 19, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Flood, June 12, 1998
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Flood, June 11, 1998
- Tornado, June 11, 1998
- Heat, July 26, 1997
- Flood, June 1, 1997
- Flood, May 31, 1997
- Flood, May 31, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 30, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 30, 1997
- High Wind, April 6, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Hail, March 28, 1997
- Hail, March 28, 1997
- Flood, February 27, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 27, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 15, 1997
- Winter Storm, January 8, 1997
- Winter Storm, December 16, 1996
- Lightning, August 15, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 1996
- Lightning, May 5, 1996
- Flood, May 4, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Dense Fog, February 20, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 2, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 6, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 2, 1996
- Tornado, June 21, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 1994
- Tornado, April 27, 1994
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Tornado, November 22, 1992
- Hail, July 9, 1992
- Tornado, June 18, 1992
- Hail, April 10, 1992
- Hail, March 6, 1992
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.