Indiana

Storm History: Shelby County, Indiana

334 episodes, 447 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Shelby 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
447
Deaths
1
Injuries
17
Damage
$57 million
Episodes
334

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
Tornado116013$54 million
Hail8900$202,000
Thunderstorm Wind7900$456,000
Flash Flood5700$547,000
Flood3500$834,000
Winter Storm2000
Heavy Snow1200$50,000
High Wind1000$500
Drought800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning300$152,000
Ice Storm300$35,000
Excessive Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather214$20,000
Dense Fog100
Heat100
Blizzard100
Wildfire100$5,000

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 Shelby County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Shelby CountyEvery warning in Shelby 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.