Indiana

Storm History: Washington County, Indiana

248 episodes, 368 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Washington 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
368
Deaths
10
Injuries
26
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
248

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
Tornado104826$13 million
Hail7900$707,000
Flash Flood6700$3.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind5700$340,000
Flood2010$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1500
Winter Storm910
Frost/Freeze500
High Wind400$6,000
Ice Storm400
Blizzard300
Lightning100$100,000

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 Washington County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Washington CountyEvery warning in Washington 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.