Kentucky

Storm History: Calloway County, Kentucky

766 episodes, 892 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Calloway 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
892
Deaths
5
Injuries
51
Damage
$48 million
Episodes
766

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
Tornado156336$11 million
Hail11502$1.6 million
Flash Flood8300$4.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind8200$811,000
Dense Fog7600
Strong Wind5401$121,000
Heat4905
Winter Weather4400
Drought4400$9.2 million
Frost/Freeze4300$25,000
Flood3016$244,000
Winter Storm2901$5,000
Excessive Heat2900
Heavy Snow1400
Cold/Wind Chill1300
High Wind900$74,000
Ice Storm710$17 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire200$2.5 million
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning100$5,000

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 Calloway County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Calloway CountyEvery warning in Calloway 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.