Kentucky

Storm History: Harrison County, Kentucky

179 episodes, 244 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Harrison 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
244
Deaths
2
Injuries
31
Damage
$8.6 million
Episodes
179

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
Flash Flood7900$1.3 million
Tornado43031$1.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind3800$97,000
Hail3400$62,000
Winter Storm1520
Heavy Snow900
Flood700$4.5 million
Ice Storm700$100,000
Frost/Freeze600
High Wind500$10,000
Lightning100$750,000

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 Harrison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Harrison CountyEvery warning in Harrison 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.