Indiana

Storm History: LaGrange County, Indiana

258 episodes, 329 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in LaGrange 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
329
Deaths
14
Injuries
121
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
258

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
Hail7304$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind6600$1.6 million
Tornado5511115$8.8 million
Winter Weather3321
Winter Storm3200
Heavy Snow2110
High Wind1301$22,000
Flash Flood800$527,000
Ice Storm800$30,000
Flood700$54,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Lake-Effect Snow400
Blizzard300
Dense Fog100$300,000

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 LaGrange County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in LaGrange CountyEvery warning in LaGrange 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.