Kentucky

Storm History: Grayson County, Kentucky

242 episodes, 361 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grayson 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
361
Deaths
4
Injuries
26
Damage
$57 million
Episodes
242

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.

Open the live radar over Grayson County

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
Tornado108324$56 million
Flash Flood8800$210,000
Hail7000$98,000
Thunderstorm Wind4400$50,000
Winter Storm1610
Heavy Snow1300
Flood800$760,000
Ice Storm600$80,000
Frost/Freeze300
High Wind200
Lightning202$15,000
Blizzard100

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 Grayson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Grayson CountyEvery warning in Grayson 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.