Kentucky

Storms in Kentucky in 2008

2,031 events in 192 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kentucky in 2008, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. 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.

Kentucky in 2008 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

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The year

Events
2,031
Deaths
16
Injuries
110
Damage
$313 million
Episodes
192

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 Wind70602$2.5 million
Hail15005$2.8 million
Frost/Freeze14900$390,000
Strong Wind14400$447,000
Flood14403$1.0 million
Winter Weather13554$293,000
Winter Storm13300$9.1 million
Flash Flood9400$2.4 million
Heavy Snow7200$150,000
High Wind7129$55 million
Ice Storm5404$65,000
Drought4000
Tornado39844$57 million
Dense Fog3900
Heat2810
Sleet1300
Heavy Rain1000
Funnel Cloud500
Lightning400
Wildfire1039$182 million

Every episode, month by month

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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.