Storm History: Garrard County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Garrard 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
- 224
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 4
- Damage
- $3.8 million
- Episodes
- 181
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 | 70 | 0 | 0 | $678,000 |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 0 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| Hail | 37 | 0 | 1 | $523,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 25 | 0 | 3 | $125,000 |
| Winter Storm | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 7 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $80,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 4 | 0 | 0 | $12,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, July 19, 1996
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1999
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2009
- Tornado, August 12, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2019
- Tornado, April 20, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2002
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 1999
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Hail, April 26, 1989
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, May 2, 2002
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2026
- Tornado, June 18, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Tornado, December 18, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Tornado, July 18, 2023
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2022
- Tornado, April 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, December 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, October 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Tornado, April 28, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Tornado, March 27, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Hail, July 3, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Hail, June 8, 2015
- Tornado, April 25, 2015
- Flood, April 14, 2015
- Tornado, April 7, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Tornado, October 6, 2014
- Flood, August 20, 2014
- Hail, June 23, 2014
- Hail, May 21, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2013
- Hail, July 23, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Flood, July 18, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2009
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2007
- Hail, April 26, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 22, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, November 15, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Hail, May 1, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 7, 2002
- Hail, May 2, 2002
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2000
- Hail, June 26, 2000
- Hail, August 24, 1999
- Tornado, August 19, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1999
- Winter Storm, December 23, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 22, 1998
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Hail, June 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 5, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, July 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 28, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 1996
- Tornado, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Hail, May 18, 1993
- Hail, April 15, 1993
- Tornado, July 8, 1991
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 4, 1990
- Hail, April 26, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 1988
- Tornado, August 27, 1987
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Tornado, June 16, 1987
- Hail, August 19, 1986
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 1984
- Tornado, August 12, 1983
- Tornado, August 11, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 1981
- Tornado, July 2, 1980
- Tornado, March 20, 1976
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 13, 1976
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 18, 1975
- Tornado, May 29, 1974
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 1970
- Hail, June 24, 1969
More
Tornadoes in Garrard CountyEvery warning in Garrard 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.