Indiana

Storm History: White County, Indiana

233 episodes, 339 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in White 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
339
Deaths
12
Injuries
75
Damage
$5.6 million
Episodes
233

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
Hail9601$182,000
Tornado831074$1.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind5000$168,000
Flash Flood2500$3.3 million
Winter Storm2200
Winter Weather1600
Heavy Snow1100
Flood1100$232,000
High Wind900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm400$25,000
Blizzard300
Dense Fog220
Cold/Wind Chill100
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 White County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in White CountyEvery warning in White 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.