Indiana

Storm History: Kosciusko County, Indiana

283 episodes, 547 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kosciusko 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
547
Deaths
2
Injuries
84
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
283

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
Hail17606$669,000
Tornado158270$8.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind13303$6.6 million
Flash Flood3100$332,000
Flood2200$1.2 million
Winter Storm600
Winter Weather500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning304$175,000
Heavy Snow300
Blizzard200
High Wind201$19,000
Funnel Cloud100
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 Kosciusko County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kosciusko CountyEvery warning in Kosciusko 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.