Indiana

Storm History: Pike County, Indiana

738 episodes, 772 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike 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
772
Deaths
9
Injuries
65
Damage
$46 million
Episodes
738

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
Flood14331$2.2 million
Dense Fog6700
Hail6400$105,000
Winter Weather6400
Thunderstorm Wind6101$514,000
Strong Wind5800$77,000
Tornado54660$35 million
Frost/Freeze5200$115,000
Heat4400
Flash Flood3300$1.1 million
Winter Storm3202$500,000
Heavy Snow2000
Drought2000$3.0 million
Excessive Heat1900
Cold/Wind Chill1800
High Wind600$4.0 million
Ice Storm500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning201$10,000
Wildfire200
Freezing Fog200
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100

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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike 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.