Kentucky

Storm History: Casey County, Kentucky

195 episodes, 286 events since 1955

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.

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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
Tornado8712$3.2 million
Hail6500$55,000
Flash Flood5100$3.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind4301$5.1 million
Winter Storm1300
Flood900$555,000
Heavy Snow700
Frost/Freeze500
High Wind300$10,000
Ice Storm200
Blizzard100

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 Casey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.