Indiana

Storm History: Marshall County, Indiana

320 episodes, 439 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marshall 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
439
Deaths
6
Injuries
54
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
320

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
Tornado112350$28 million
Hail10102$478,000
Thunderstorm Wind7311$360,000
Winter Storm3500
Winter Weather2800
Flash Flood2200$528,000
Heavy Snow1710
High Wind1301
Flood1100$1.4 million
Lake-Effect Snow1010
Ice Storm700$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dense Fog100

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 Marshall County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marshall CountyEvery warning in Marshall 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.