Kentucky

Storm History: Breckinridge County, Kentucky

264 episodes, 403 events since 1970

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Breckinridge 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
403
Deaths
4
Injuries
22
Damage
$6.8 million
Episodes
264

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
Tornado138120$4.9 million
Flash Flood8010$155,000
Hail6600$130,000
Thunderstorm Wind5702$412,000
Winter Storm1810
Flood1700$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1100
Ice Storm500
High Wind400$5,000
Frost/Freeze400
Winter Weather110$5,000
Blizzard100
Lightning100$200,000

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 Breckinridge County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Breckinridge CountyEvery warning in Breckinridge 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.