Kentucky

Storm History: Daviess County, Kentucky

883 episodes, 1,034 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Daviess 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
1,034
Deaths
5
Injuries
104
Damage
$159 million
Episodes
883

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
Hail16900$2.5 million
Tornado138037$86 million
Thunderstorm Wind11004$1.8 million
Dense Fog8100
Flood7100$18 million
Flash Flood6911$683,000
Winter Weather5822$50,000
Strong Wind5700$59,000
Frost/Freeze4900$4.0 million
Heat49114
Drought3300$9.2 million
Winter Storm3100$175,000
Excessive Heat28029
Heavy Snow2000$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill1710
Ice Storm1100$18 million
Heavy Rain1000
Funnel Cloud900
High Wind800$206,000
Lightning700$145,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Wildfire2017$19 million
Freezing Fog200

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 Daviess County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Daviess CountyEvery warning in Daviess 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.