Storm History: Edmonson County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Edmonson 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
- 259
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 7
- Damage
- $2.1 million
- Episodes
- 197
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 | 86 | 0 | 5 | $668,000 |
| Flash Flood | 49 | 0 | 0 | $185,000 |
| Hail | 37 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 35 | 0 | 0 | $160,000 |
| Flood | 25 | 1 | 2 | $1.0 million |
| Winter Storm | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 30, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 24, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2018
- Tornado, April 29, 1963
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Hail, April 20, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2019
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Flash Flood, March 12, 2020
- Hail, March 14, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Hail, April 2, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, April 16, 2006
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Tornado, April 29, 1963
- Tornado, May 23, 2000
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 10, 1973
- Tornado, May 31, 1982
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 2, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2022
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Tornado, April 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, May 3, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tornado, February 28, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 2, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 12, 2020
- Flood, December 2, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2019
- Tornado, June 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 30, 2019
- Hail, March 14, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2019
- Flood, December 31, 2018
- Ice Storm, November 14, 2018
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Tornado, June 24, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Flood, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Tornado, November 18, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Hail, July 3, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2016
- Flood, December 24, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2015
- Hail, May 26, 2015
- Tornado, April 25, 2015
- Flood, April 14, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 10, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2013
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2012
- Hail, April 2, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Flood, December 1, 2011
- Flood, November 28, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2011
- Flood, May 3, 2011
- Flood, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flood, April 12, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Flood, March 1, 2011
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2009
- Tornado, June 10, 2009
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Hail, April 5, 2009
- Hail, March 8, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 18, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Flood, February 6, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flood, December 13, 2007
- Flood, December 10, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, May 19, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 16, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, November 15, 2005
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Hail, August 14, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Hail, April 24, 2004
- Flood, February 7, 2004
- Flood, January 3, 2004
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2003
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Hail, April 20, 2003
- Flood, February 16, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, September 26, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Hail, April 24, 2002
- Flood, March 21, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2002
- Hail, February 20, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 24, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Tornado, May 24, 2000
- Tornado, May 23, 2000
- Hail, April 10, 1999
- Flash Flood, January 22, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 17, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1999
- Flood, July 16, 1998
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Flood, April 17, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 1997
- Flash Flood, June 21, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 5, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 7, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Hail, April 9, 1995
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 1991
- Tornado, July 8, 1991
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Tornado, March 12, 1986
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 29, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 1983
- Tornado, June 3, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 1982
- Tornado, May 31, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1981
- Tornado, July 2, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 1979
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Tornado, May 10, 1973
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Tornado, April 29, 1963
More
Tornadoes in Edmonson CountyEvery warning in Edmonson 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.