Storm History: Larue County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Larue 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
- 250
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 29
- Damage
- $6.1 million
- Episodes
- 186
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 70 | 0 | 27 | $5.2 million |
| Flash Flood | 63 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| Hail | 47 | 0 | 1 | $240,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 27 | 0 | 1 | $80,000 |
| Winter Storm | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | $400,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Tornado, March 22, 1952
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2014
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2007
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Tornado, February 21, 1993
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2014
- Tornado, April 14, 1972
- Tornado, June 11, 1985
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2009
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Hail, May 14, 1986
- Hail, September 23, 2024
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 17, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 22, 1952
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 24, 1971
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Tornado, January 17, 2012
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Tornado, May 10, 2016
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, April 27, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Tornado, December 18, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Hail, September 23, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 3, 2024
- Tornado, March 14, 2024
- Flood, July 24, 2023
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, February 16, 2023
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2022
- Tornado, April 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Flash Flood, March 6, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 14, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2019
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Tornado, April 28, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2016
- Tornado, May 10, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Tornado, July 10, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Tornado, October 6, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Hail, May 21, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 31, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2013
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 17, 2013
- Hail, July 27, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Tornado, January 17, 2012
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Flash Flood, February 24, 2011
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2010
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2010
- Hail, May 15, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2009
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Hail, March 8, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2007
- Hail, June 23, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2006
- Hail, June 19, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Flood, March 29, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2004
- Flash Flood, September 3, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2002
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Hail, June 4, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2000
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2000
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 28, 1997
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 7, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, June 26, 1994
- Tornado, February 21, 1993
- Hail, July 30, 1992
- Tornado, June 6, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Hail, May 15, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 7, 1989
- Hail, August 3, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 1987
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Hail, June 12, 1987
- Hail, May 14, 1986
- Tornado, March 12, 1986
- Tornado, June 11, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 24, 1984
- Hail, August 24, 1983
- Tornado, July 2, 1980
- Hail, August 29, 1979
- Tornado, June 30, 1977
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 13, 1976
- Tornado, April 14, 1972
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 1971
- Tornado, May 24, 1971
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 19, 1970
- Hail, May 25, 1962
- Hail, April 2, 1956
- Tornado, March 22, 1952
More
Tornadoes in Larue CountyEvery warning in Larue 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.