Storm History: Casey County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Casey 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
- 286
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $12 million
- Episodes
- 195
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 87 | 1 | 2 | $3.2 million |
| Hail | 65 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Flash Flood | 51 | 0 | 0 | $3.5 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 43 | 0 | 1 | $5.1 million |
| Winter Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $555,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 19, 1996
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, September 13, 2020
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2017
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Tornado, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2004
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 17, 1999
- Tornado, April 20, 2000
- Flash Flood, December 16, 2019
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2001
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Hail, June 11, 2023
- Hail, May 26, 2019
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Hail, July 13, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Hail, April 2, 2006
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, April 27, 1971
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, March 16, 1982
- Tornado, May 22, 1989
- Tornado, March 22, 1991
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
Every episode, newest first
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 22, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Hail, April 29, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, February 15, 2025
- Tornado, February 6, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Tornado, July 18, 2023
- Tornado, July 1, 2023
- Hail, June 11, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- High Wind, February 9, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2022
- Hail, May 18, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Tornado, January 1, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2021
- Tornado, February 28, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 13, 2020
- Flood, July 20, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, December 16, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2019
- Hail, May 26, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2019
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Hail, July 3, 2016
- Tornado, May 10, 2016
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Tornado, July 10, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Tornado, October 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2014
- Hail, May 21, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Hail, July 13, 2013
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2013
- Flood, March 18, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2012
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2012
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 23, 2012
- Tornado, January 17, 2012
- Hail, October 18, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2011
- Hail, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 12, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 11, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Hail, April 5, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Hail, July 15, 2007
- Hail, May 4, 2007
- Tornado, April 3, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Hail, October 11, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 22, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Hail, May 4, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2002
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 24, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 5, 2001
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2001
- Hail, June 4, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2000
- Hail, August 8, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2000
- Hail, July 29, 2000
- Flash Flood, May 3, 2000
- Tornado, April 20, 2000
- Hail, August 24, 1999
- Tornado, August 19, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 17, 1999
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 1997
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 2, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 3, 1997
- Flash Flood, July 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Tornado, May 10, 1995
- Hail, July 30, 1992
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Tornado, March 22, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, May 22, 1989
- Tornado, August 9, 1987
- Hail, August 3, 1987
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 6, 1986
- Tornado, March 27, 1983
- Tornado, March 16, 1982
- Hail, May 30, 1981
- Hail, August 6, 1979
- Tornado, December 5, 1977
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, April 27, 1971
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 1967
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 1, 1955
More
Tornadoes in Casey CountyEvery warning in Casey 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.