Indiana

Storm History: Newton County, Indiana

247 episodes, 317 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newton 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
317
Deaths
7
Injuries
29
Damage
$6.0 million
Episodes
247

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
Tornado63228$3.3 million
Hail6100$4,000
Thunderstorm Wind5601$136,000
Flash Flood3430$1.5 million
Winter Storm2300
Winter Weather1300
Heavy Snow1200
Flood1000$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
High Wind600
Blizzard520
Ice Storm500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Excessive Heat400
Drought400
Heat300
Dust Storm200
Strong Wind100
Frost/Freeze100
Lightning100$100,000

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 Newton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Newton CountyEvery warning in Newton 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.