Kentucky

Storm History: Floyd County, Kentucky

402 episodes, 744 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Floyd 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
744
Deaths
4
Injuries
10
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
402

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
Flash Flood18501$11 million
Hail13010$381,000
Thunderstorm Wind12803$634,000
Tornado7302$4.2 million
Heavy Snow7010$1,000
Winter Storm4300$13,000
Flood2900$4.2 million
Ice Storm2600$3,000
Winter Weather2313$75,000
Frost/Freeze1300
High Wind500$49,000
Heat500
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill311
Drought300
Lightning200$3,000
Debris Flow200
Dense Fog100

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 Floyd County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Floyd CountyEvery warning in Floyd 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.