Storm History: Anderson County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Anderson 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
- 243
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 13
- Damage
- $9.6 million
- Episodes
- 188
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 70 | 0 | 11 | $4.5 million |
| Hail | 54 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Flash Flood | 40 | 0 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 31 | 0 | 2 | $5,000 |
| Winter Storm | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $360,000 |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 1 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 4 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Hail, May 18, 1993
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Flash Flood, July 20, 1998
- Tornado, February 21, 1993
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Tornado, March 29, 1974
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Tornado, June 30, 1977
- Tornado, April 20, 2000
- Hail, July 3, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Hail, June 5, 1977
- Hail, June 5, 2007
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, May 21, 2010
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
- Tornado, March 29, 1974
- Tornado, May 31, 1982
- Tornado, March 10, 1986
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Tornado, May 10, 2016
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
Every episode, newest first
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, February 15, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2023
- Tornado, July 1, 2023
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, May 7, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- High Wind, February 9, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Hail, July 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2018
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Flood, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Tornado, November 18, 2017
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Tornado, March 27, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Hail, July 3, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2016
- Tornado, May 10, 2016
- Hail, May 1, 2016
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Tornado, July 10, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2014
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2013
- Hail, July 23, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2013
- Hail, July 27, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Flood, November 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2011
- Hail, July 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2011
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2010
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Hail, May 21, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 7, 2010
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, July 8, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 18, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 4, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flood, December 13, 2007
- Hail, June 5, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Tornado, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Hail, August 2, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, April 21, 2002
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Tornado, April 20, 2000
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 20, 1998
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 22, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Hail, August 25, 1997
- Flash Flood, June 13, 1997
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 7, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1996
- Hail, July 2, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1996
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Lightning, May 28, 1996
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Hail, May 5, 1996
- Hail, May 5, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 5, 1996
- Hail, May 3, 1996
- Hail, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Tornado, May 10, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 7, 1995
- Hail, May 18, 1993
- Tornado, February 21, 1993
- Hail, July 30, 1992
- Tornado, July 8, 1991
- Hail, September 7, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 1987
- Tornado, June 2, 1987
- Hail, May 7, 1986
- Tornado, March 12, 1986
- Tornado, March 10, 1986
- Tornado, June 10, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 14, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 24, 1984
- Tornado, April 28, 1983
- Tornado, May 31, 1982
- Hail, May 21, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 1981
- Tornado, June 30, 1977
- Hail, June 5, 1977
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, March 29, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1970
- Tornado, April 1, 1970
- Tornado, November 26, 1965
More
Tornadoes in Anderson CountyEvery warning in Anderson 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.