INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Meteorological winter, defined as December through February, delivered an unusually dynamic stretch of weather across Indiana this year.

From nighttime tornadoes to one of the biggest snowfalls in more than a decade, the season was anything but quiet.

The first major headline came on the night of Dec. 28, when two confirmed EF-1 tornadoes touched down in southern Indiana after dark. One tornado near Linton produced peak winds around 100 mph and tracked just...