Kentucky

Storm History: Greenup County, Kentucky

353 episodes, 517 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greenup 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
517
Deaths
2
Injuries
7
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
353

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 Wind10900$1.2 million
Flash Flood9210$9.1 million
Hail6701$870,000
Flood6110$5.6 million
Heavy Snow2500$200,000
Winter Weather2000
Strong Wind2001$115,000
Tornado1905$7.1 million
Cold/Wind Chill1900$22,000
Drought1900
Winter Storm1500$300,000
Heat1100
Heavy Rain1000
Excessive Heat900
High Wind700$10,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700$450,000
Frost/Freeze300
Ice Storm200$500,000
Lightning200$21,000

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 Greenup County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greenup CountyEvery warning in Greenup 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.