Kentucky

Storm History: Graves County, Kentucky

754 episodes, 892 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Graves 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
892
Deaths
29
Injuries
242
Damage
$67 million
Episodes
754

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
Tornado14824223$8.6 million
Hail10711$936,000
Thunderstorm Wind9013$947,000
Flash Flood7910$6.7 million
Dense Fog7902
Strong Wind5700$85,000
Heat5305
Winter Weather4701
Frost/Freeze4600$4.0 million
Drought4200$9.2 million
Excessive Heat3110
Winter Storm2802$48,000
Flood2500$1.3 million
Heavy Snow1502
Cold/Wind Chill1300
Ice Storm910$22 million
High Wind800$42,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Rain300
Lightning202$35,000
Wildfire201$13 million
Freezing Fog200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Graves County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Graves CountyEvery warning in Graves 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.