Kentucky

Storm History: Magoffin County, Kentucky

308 episodes, 433 events since 1983

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Magoffin 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
433
Deaths
0
Injuries
33
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
308

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 Wind9600$247,000
Hail7900$31,000
Flash Flood7400$2.1 million
Tornado50030$27 million
Heavy Snow4403$10,000
Flood2000$2.5 million
Ice Storm1700
Winter Storm1600$3,000
Frost/Freeze1300
High Wind900$30,000
Winter Weather700
Drought400
Excessive Heat100
Heat100
Dense Fog100
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 Magoffin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Magoffin CountyEvery warning in Magoffin 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.