Kentucky

Storms in Kentucky in 2024

1,754 events in 182 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Kentucky in 2024, 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 2024 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
1,754
Deaths
13
Injuries
51
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
182

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 Wind81801$571,000
Dense Fog13500
Hail10300$282,000
Strong Wind9600$106,000
Winter Weather7950$50,000
Heat7900
Flash Flood6910$276,000
High Wind6900$745,000
Tornado66549$14 million
Flood6400$150,000
Excessive Heat5400
Frost/Freeze4600
Heavy Snow3200
Drought2400
Winter Storm1000
Cold/Wind Chill610
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill111
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100
Lightning100

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.