Indiana

Storm History: Union County, Indiana

228 episodes, 259 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Union 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
259
Deaths
4
Injuries
9
Damage
$5.4 million
Episodes
228

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
Flash Flood4546$379,000
Thunderstorm Wind4200$179,000
Winter Storm4000$150,000
Hail3003$283,000
Winter Weather2500
Tornado2100$2.9 million
Flood2100$31,000
High Wind1000$890,000
Heavy Snow800
Ice Storm600
Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$620,000
Blizzard100
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 Union County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Union CountyEvery warning in Union 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.