Indiana

Storm History: Steuben County, Indiana

268 episodes, 395 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Steuben 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
395
Deaths
9
Injuries
32
Damage
$40 million
Episodes
268

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
Hail11304$254,000
Tornado83321$38 million
Thunderstorm Wind6601$219,000
Winter Storm3242
Winter Weather2810
Heavy Snow1600
Flash Flood1600$877,000
High Wind1200$10,000
Flood1004$571,000
Ice Storm800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Blizzard310
Lake-Effect Snow200
Dense Fog100

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 Steuben County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Steuben CountyEvery warning in Steuben 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.