Kentucky

Storm History: Bath County, Kentucky

277 episodes, 435 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bath 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
435
Deaths
7
Injuries
5
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
277

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
Thunderstorm Wind11001$433,000
Hail7810$140,000
Flash Flood6610$454,000
Tornado6200$4.3 million
Heavy Snow3201$10 million
Flood2050$2.2 million
Ice Storm2000
Frost/Freeze1100
Winter Storm1000$50,000
High Wind700$61,000
Winter Weather703$70,000
Dense Fog300$10,000
Strong Wind300$2,000
Drought200
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Heat100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Bath County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bath CountyEvery warning in Bath 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.