Indiana

Storm History: Vanderburgh County, Indiana

882 episodes, 1,012 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Vanderburgh 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
1,012
Deaths
28
Injuries
247
Damage
$99 million
Episodes
882

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
Thunderstorm Wind13903$2.8 million
Hail12100$36 million
Tornado10420210$22 million
Flash Flood9500$4.6 million
Dense Fog7500
Strong Wind7300$96,000
Flood7112$2.0 million
Winter Weather66013$30,000
Heat5100
Frost/Freeze4800$215,000
Winter Storm3410$16 million
Heavy Snow2301$175,000
Drought2200$3.0 million
Heavy Rain2100$10,000
Excessive Heat20316
Cold/Wind Chill1820
Funnel Cloud900
High Wind701$12 million
Ice Storm500
Lightning411$60,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Freezing Fog100
Dust Devil100

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 Vanderburgh County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Vanderburgh CountyEvery warning in Vanderburgh 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.