Kentucky

Storm History: Jessamine County, Kentucky

188 episodes, 232 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jessamine 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
232
Deaths
4
Injuries
34
Damage
$3.1 million
Episodes
188

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.

Open the live radar over Jessamine County

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
Tornado59033$1.3 million
Hail5211$114,000
Flash Flood3920$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$46,000
Winter Storm1400
Flood1200$210,000
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm600$300,000
Frost/Freeze600
High Wind400$10,000
Lightning110
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 Jessamine County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jessamine CountyEvery warning in Jessamine 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.