Indiana

Storm History: Tipton County, Indiana

190 episodes, 234 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tipton 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
234
Deaths
2
Injuries
14
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
190

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
Tornado60212$3.3 million
Hail4301$350,000
Flood2200$74,000
Winter Storm2100
Thunderstorm Wind1900$124,000
Flash Flood1900$5.1 million
Heavy Snow1601
Drought1400
High Wind500$62,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Ice Storm300$15,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Dense Fog100
Heat100
Blizzard100
Frost/Freeze100$1.0 million

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 Tipton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Tipton CountyEvery warning in Tipton 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.