Kentucky

Storm History: Kenton County, Kentucky

325 episodes, 401 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kenton 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
401
Deaths
4
Injuries
17
Damage
$46 million
Episodes
325

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 Wind8000$314,000
Flash Flood7500$2.7 million
Hail6100$131,000
Winter Storm4400$400,000
Flood3900$56,000
Tornado34410$23 million
Winter Weather2806
High Wind1200$18 million
Ice Storm800
Heavy Snow700
Excessive Heat500
Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Lightning101$50,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000

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 Kenton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kenton CountyEvery warning in Kenton 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.