Kentucky

Storm History: Livingston County, Kentucky

662 episodes, 699 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Livingston 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
699
Deaths
2
Injuries
10
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
662

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
Dense Fog9400
Hail6401$389,000
Tornado5205$1.5 million
Strong Wind5200$49,000
Winter Weather5100
Heat4900
Flood4800$4.9 million
Frost/Freeze4600$25,000
Thunderstorm Wind4004$278,000
Drought3800$9.2 million
Flash Flood3800$776,000
Winter Storm3100$1.5 million
Excessive Heat3100
Heavy Snow1800
Cold/Wind Chill1100
Ice Storm1110$11 million
High Wind700$27,000
Heavy Rain600
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill510
Wildfire300$8.4 million
Freezing Fog200
Lightning100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Livingston County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Livingston CountyEvery warning in Livingston 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.