Kentucky

Storm History: Allen County, Kentucky

184 episodes, 260 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Allen County, Kentucky: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
260
Deaths
7
Injuries
12
Damage
$2.6 million
Episodes
184

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado63612$2.3 million
Hail5900$26,000
Flash Flood5810$145,000
Thunderstorm Wind4800$100,000
Winter Storm1200
Heavy Snow700
Flood700
Frost/Freeze200
Ice Storm200
Winter Weather100$10,000
Blizzard100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Allen County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Allen CountyEvery warning in Allen County since 1986Every county in Kentucky

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.