Kentucky

Storm History: Bracken County, Kentucky

210 episodes, 278 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bracken 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
278
Deaths
4
Injuries
11
Damage
$6.7 million
Episodes
210

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 Wind7300$353,000
Flash Flood4033$2.0 million
Winter Storm3700$200,000
Tornado3318$1.5 million
Hail3200$1.2 million
Flood1700$35,000
Winter Weather1700
Heavy Snow800
High Wind600$1.0 million
Ice Storm400
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100

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 Bracken County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Bracken CountyEvery warning in Bracken 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.