Kentucky

Storm History: Jackson County, Kentucky

312 episodes, 430 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
430
Deaths
0
Injuries
4
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
312

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
Thunderstorm Wind10202$207,000
Hail8500$202,000
Flash Flood8500$330,000
Heavy Snow3900
Tornado3501$565,000
Winter Storm1800
Ice Storm1700$2,000
Winter Weather1201
Frost/Freeze1200
Flood1100$26,000
High Wind700$26,000
Drought300
Excessive Heat100
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Jackson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jackson CountyEvery warning in Jackson 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.