Indiana

Storm History: Harrison County, Indiana

301 episodes, 467 events since 1971

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Harrison 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
467
Deaths
4
Injuries
42
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
301

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.

Open the live radar over Harrison County

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
Hail11900$206,000
Thunderstorm Wind11200$359,000
Tornado94442$1.3 million
Flash Flood7600$702,000
Heavy Snow1800
Flood1500$10 million
Winter Storm1100
High Wind600
Ice Storm600
Frost/Freeze500
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain200
Strong Wind100$2,000

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 Harrison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Harrison CountyEvery warning in Harrison 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.