Kentucky

Storm History: Grant County, Kentucky

250 episodes, 320 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grant 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
320
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$6.5 million
Episodes
250

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 Wind7601$230,000
Flash Flood5600$1.3 million
Winter Storm4300$200,000
Hail4100$75,000
Tornado3210$1.3 million
Flood1900$35,000
Winter Weather1900
High Wind900$2.9 million
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm600
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Heavy Rain200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000
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 Grant County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Grant CountyEvery warning in Grant 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.