Indiana

Storm History: Perry County, Indiana

227 episodes, 291 events since 1952

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.

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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
Thunderstorm Wind5300$303,000
Flood5200$1.5 million
Hail5100$115,000
Flash Flood5130$55,000
Tornado44220$252 million
Heavy Snow1500$75,000
Winter Storm1000$20,000
Ice Storm500
Frost/Freeze400
High Wind310
Blizzard200
Heat100

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 Perry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.