Kentucky

Storms in Kentucky in 1989

156 events in 39 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kentucky in 1989, 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 1989 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
156
Deaths
0
Injuries
25
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
39

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 Wind9303
Hail4300
Tornado20022$13 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1989

March 1989

April 1989

May 1989

June 1989

July 1989

August 1989

September 1989

November 1989

More

Every year in KentuckyEvery state in 1989Tornadoes in Kentucky in 1989Warnings in Kentucky in 198919881990

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.