Kentucky

Storm History: Boone County, Kentucky

411 episodes, 558 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boone 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
558
Deaths
3
Injuries
63
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
411

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 Wind117011$518,000
Hail8600$216,000
Flash Flood8500$2.6 million
Winter Weather7200
Tornado65047$6.8 million
Winter Storm4900$400,000
Flood3800$53,000
High Wind1200$13 million
Ice Storm800$25,000
Heavy Snow600
Excessive Heat500
Lightning305$100,000
Heat310
Strong Wind300$2,000
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill220
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000

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 Boone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boone CountyEvery warning in Boone 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.