Storm History: Perry County, Indiana
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Perry 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
- 291
- Deaths
- 6
- Injuries
- 20
- Damage
- $254 million
- Episodes
- 227
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 53 | 0 | 0 | $303,000 |
| Flood | 52 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Hail | 51 | 0 | 0 | $115,000 |
| Flash Flood | 51 | 3 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Tornado | 44 | 2 | 20 | $252 million |
| Heavy Snow | 15 | 0 | 0 | $75,000 |
| Winter Storm | 10 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 3 | 1 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Tornado, April 30, 1997
- Tornado, December 9, 1952
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Tornado, May 8, 2003
- Tornado, September 7, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 22, 2004
- Hail, April 28, 1994
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Tornado, November 19, 1970
- Flash Flood, March 9, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 9, 1991
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Hail, July 30, 1978
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, March 21, 1991
- Hail, March 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Hail, May 11, 2014
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, May 24, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2004
- Hail, June 1, 2004
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, October 24, 2025
- Hail, April 10, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2024
- Hail, July 30, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 22, 2024
- Tornado, May 7, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 18, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Tornado, March 3, 2023
- Hail, March 1, 2023
- High Wind, February 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 3, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2020
- Flood, May 16, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2019
- Hail, June 16, 2019
- Tornado, March 14, 2019
- Ice Storm, November 14, 2018
- Tornado, September 7, 2018
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2018
- Blizzard, March 20, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Flood, March 1, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 22, 2018
- Flood, February 17, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2016
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2016
- Flood, December 27, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Tornado, June 19, 2015
- Hail, May 27, 2015
- Flood, April 17, 2015
- Tornado, April 7, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Flood, March 7, 2015
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 16, 2014
- Hail, July 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2014
- Hail, May 11, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 9, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Hail, February 20, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Flood, December 21, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 6, 2013
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2012
- Heat, June 29, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 23, 2012
- Flood, December 1, 2011
- Tornado, November 14, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2011
- Tornado, June 26, 2011
- Tornado, June 19, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Hail, May 22, 2011
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 23, 2011
- Flood, April 19, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flood, April 12, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Flood, March 7, 2011
- Flood, March 1, 2011
- Flood, February 28, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 25, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 26, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 7, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2009
- Hail, May 30, 2009
- Hail, May 30, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 8, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Blizzard, January 27, 2009
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Flood, April 4, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 18, 2008
- Flood, March 8, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Flood, February 9, 2008
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flood, December 15, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Hail, April 11, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flood, January 17, 2007
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2006
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, March 12, 2006
- Flood, March 11, 2006
- Flash Flood, March 11, 2006
- Hail, March 11, 2006
- Flash Flood, March 9, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 15, 2005
- Flash Flood, November 15, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2005
- Flood, January 7, 2005
- Flood, January 7, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 22, 2004
- Flood, September 23, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2004
- Flood, June 1, 2004
- Hail, June 1, 2004
- Flood, May 31, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2004
- Hail, May 24, 2004
- Hail, April 30, 2004
- Flood, February 10, 2004
- Flood, January 7, 2004
- Flood, January 5, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2003
- Tornado, May 17, 2003
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Tornado, May 8, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 28, 2003
- Hail, April 20, 2003
- Flood, February 25, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2002
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Flood, March 23, 2002
- Flood, March 22, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2001
- Hail, September 23, 2001
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2001
- Flood, February 19, 2000
- Hail, February 18, 2000
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Tornado, January 3, 2000
- Tornado, May 17, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 5, 1999
- Flash Flood, April 28, 1999
- Flash Flood, January 22, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 7, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 20, 1998
- Flood, April 24, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 1997
- Tornado, April 30, 1997
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 7, 1996
- Hail, May 28, 1996
- Hail, May 26, 1996
- Flood, May 17, 1996
- Flood, May 10, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 8, 1996
- Flood, May 7, 1996
- Flood, April 29, 1996
- Flash Flood, April 29, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1995
- Hail, April 28, 1994
- Hail, July 8, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 1991
- Hail, April 9, 1991
- Hail, March 21, 1991
- Tornado, August 20, 1990
- Hail, May 16, 1990
- Tornado, April 3, 1989
- Tornado, July 5, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 1985
- Tornado, April 5, 1985
- Hail, July 30, 1978
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Hail, October 4, 1972
- Tornado, November 19, 1970
- Tornado, May 10, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 3, 1964
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 1958
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 1957
- Tornado, December 9, 1952
More
Tornadoes in Perry CountyEvery warning in Perry 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.