Kentucky

Storm History: Fulton County, Kentucky

642 episodes, 685 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fulton 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
685
Deaths
4
Injuries
19
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
642

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
Dense Fog8600
Tornado5717$2.3 million
Heat5603
Strong Wind5600$54,000
Hail5402$214,000
Thunderstorm Wind5000$261,000
Frost/Freeze4400$25,000
Drought4300$9.2 million
Winter Weather4100
Flash Flood4002$3.6 million
Flood3910$1.2 million
Excessive Heat3200
Winter Storm2921
Heavy Snow1600
Cold/Wind Chill1200
Ice Storm900$10 million
High Wind903$212,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Rain300
Wildfire201$6.6 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 Fulton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fulton CountyEvery warning in Fulton 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.