Kentucky

Storm History: Estill County, Kentucky

390 episodes, 594 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Estill 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
594
Deaths
1
Injuries
40
Damage
$9.2 million
Episodes
390

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
Thunderstorm Wind14200$920,000
Flash Flood12411$509,000
Hail8601$198,000
Tornado86038$5.4 million
Flood3700$2.1 million
Heavy Snow3200
Winter Storm1900$17,000
Ice Storm1800
Frost/Freeze1200
High Wind1100$75,000
Winter Weather700
Excessive Heat400
Drought400
Strong Wind300$3,000
Heat300
Lightning200$55,000
Debris Flow200
Dense Fog100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Estill County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Estill CountyEvery warning in Estill 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.