Storm History: Hancock County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
- 228
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- $824,000
- Episodes
- 176
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 | 56 | 0 | 1 | $312,000 |
| Flash Flood | 44 | 0 | 0 | $42,000 |
| Hail | 43 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 37 | 0 | 0 | $199,000 |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 11 | 0 | 0 | $230,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2017
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Tornado, June 6, 1990
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 17, 1999
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Hail, July 4, 1995
- Hail, July 31, 1995
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 23, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2012
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Tornado, September 5, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2003
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Hail, September 27, 2023
- Hail, March 14, 2019
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, April 20, 2003
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, December 9, 1952
- Tornado, May 23, 2000
- Tornado, May 27, 2004
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 5, 1989
- Tornado, May 19, 1989
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Tornado, June 19, 2011
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 21, 2026
- Tornado, April 27, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 2, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Hail, September 27, 2023
- Flood, July 24, 2023
- Tornado, July 1, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 2, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 12, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2019
- Tornado, June 21, 2019
- Hail, March 14, 2019
- Tornado, September 5, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Tornado, February 24, 2018
- Flood, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2016
- Flood, April 26, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 31, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2015
- Tornado, April 7, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Tornado, May 14, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2014
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 6, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 31, 2013
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- High Wind, December 20, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2012
- Hail, May 31, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 23, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2011
- Tornado, June 19, 2011
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 7, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, July 8, 2008
- Hail, June 13, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 18, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flood, December 15, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Hail, September 27, 2006
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2006
- Hail, June 22, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Hail, August 7, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Flood, January 7, 2005
- Flood, January 7, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 22, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2003
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
- Hail, April 20, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Flash Flood, December 19, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, January 24, 2002
- Flash Flood, December 17, 2001
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2000
- Tornado, May 23, 2000
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 1999
- Tornado, May 5, 1999
- Flash Flood, January 22, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 17, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1999
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 1998
- Hail, June 23, 1998
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Flood, April 17, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 8, 1997
- Hail, March 28, 1997
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Flood, February 1, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Hail, July 31, 1995
- Hail, July 4, 1995
- Tornado, May 13, 1995
- Tornado, November 14, 1993
- Tornado, June 23, 1992
- Tornado, July 8, 1991
- Hail, July 2, 1991
- Tornado, June 6, 1990
- Tornado, May 19, 1989
- Tornado, May 5, 1989
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Tornado, June 16, 1987
- Tornado, June 13, 1987
- Hail, March 15, 1987
- Hail, June 9, 1985
- Hail, June 4, 1985
- Tornado, March 15, 1984
- Hail, June 8, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 1979
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 13, 1976
- Tornado, June 13, 1970
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 1958
- Tornado, December 9, 1952
More
Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.