Kentucky

Storm History: Edmonson County, Kentucky

197 episodes, 259 events since 1963

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.

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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
Tornado8605$668,000
Flash Flood4900$185,000
Hail3700$33,000
Thunderstorm Wind3500$160,000
Flood2512$1.0 million
Winter Storm1400
Heavy Snow710
Ice Storm300
Frost/Freeze200
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 Edmonson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.