Indiana

Storm History: Ohio County, Indiana

171 episodes, 196 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ohio 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
196
Deaths
1
Injuries
64
Damage
$3.8 million
Episodes
171

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.

Open the live radar over Ohio County

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
Winter Storm3700$100,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$124,000
Hail2600$609,000
Flash Flood2500$305,000
Flood1600$1.1 million
Tornado13064$211,000
Winter Weather1100
Heavy Snow800
Ice Storm700
High Wind710$694,000
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$620,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Ohio County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Ohio CountyEvery warning in Ohio 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.