Kentucky

Storm History: Hart County, Kentucky

249 episodes, 342 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hart 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
342
Deaths
6
Injuries
30
Damage
$8.2 million
Episodes
249

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
Tornado113323$6.7 million
Hail6201$214,000
Thunderstorm Wind5503$194,000
Flash Flood5500$57,000
Flood2000$1.0 million
Winter Storm1621
Heavy Snow1000
Ice Storm512
Frost/Freeze400
High Wind100
Blizzard100

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 Hart County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hart CountyEvery warning in Hart 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.