Kentucky

Storm History: Hardin County, Kentucky

322 episodes, 543 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hardin 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
543
Deaths
11
Injuries
136
Damage
$83 million
Episodes
322

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
Tornado1803123$66 million
Hail12800$1.3 million
Flash Flood10212$948,000
Thunderstorm Wind6605$384,000
Winter Storm1720
Flood1410$13 million
Heavy Snow1100
Ice Storm1111$850,000
High Wind600$10,000
Frost/Freeze500
Blizzard100
Strong Wind123
Winter Weather112

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 Hardin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hardin CountyEvery warning in Hardin 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.