Kentucky

Storms in Kentucky in 1965

33 events in 19 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kentucky in 1965, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Kentucky in 1965 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Kentucky

The year

Events
33
Deaths
1
Injuries
11
Damage
$3.1 million
Episodes
19

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind1700
Hail900
Tornado7111$3.1 million

Every episode, month by month

April 1965

May 1965

June 1965

July 1965

August 1965

September 1965

October 1965

November 1965

More

Every year in KentuckyEvery state in 1965Tornadoes in Kentucky in 196519641966

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.