Indiana

Storm History: Jay County, Indiana

208 episodes, 258 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jay 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
258
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$5.1 million
Episodes
208

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
Tornado7502$2.0 million
Hail5200$137,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$307,000
Winter Storm2300
Winter Weather2120
Flash Flood1900$965,000
Heavy Snow1500
High Wind1002$43,000
Flood800$1.5 million
Ice Storm401$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard200
Lightning100$50,000

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 Jay County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jay CountyEvery warning in Jay 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.