Storm History: Harrison County, Kentucky
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | 79 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Tornado | 43 | 0 | 31 | $1.7 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 38 | 0 | 0 | $97,000 |
| Hail | 34 | 0 | 0 | $62,000 |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 2 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 7 | 0 | 0 | $4.5 million |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $750,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, July 20, 1998
- Lightning, June 28, 2005
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Tornado, October 7, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2001
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2009
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Hail, August 16, 2007
- Hail, June 23, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2020
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 5, 2010
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Hail, May 16, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Hail, May 19, 1998
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 21, 2026
- Tornado, June 18, 2026
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2026
- Tornado, April 27, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Hail, April 29, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Hail, February 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- High Wind, February 9, 2023
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2022
- Hail, May 19, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2022
- Tornado, February 28, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2018
- Flood, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 31, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Hail, May 26, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Tornado, October 7, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Hail, June 23, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2014
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 28, 2012
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Hail, July 27, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2011
- Tornado, April 23, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flood, April 12, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, April 5, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 7, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, July 20, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Hail, August 16, 2007
- Hail, April 26, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, May 18, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, March 11, 2006
- Lightning, June 28, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, May 27, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Flash Flood, December 19, 2002
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2002
- Flood, March 20, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2002
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2001
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2001
- Flash Flood, December 16, 2000
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Hail, May 16, 2000
- Tornado, April 20, 2000
- Flood, February 19, 2000
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 8, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 7, 1999
- High Wind, November 10, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 20, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 22, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 22, 1998
- Hail, May 19, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 1996
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 15, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 8, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 4, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Hail, June 10, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1992
- Hail, April 10, 1992
- Hail, June 8, 1990
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Tornado, March 12, 1986
- Tornado, September 14, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 1981
- Tornado, June 29, 1979
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 15, 1977
- Tornado, June 22, 1974
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 1968
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1957
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.