Storm History: Marion County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marion 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
- 255
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 7
- Damage
- $7.3 million
- Episodes
- 178
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 | 91 | 0 | 5 | $6.3 million |
| Flash Flood | 51 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| Hail | 45 | 0 | 2 | $180,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 23 | 0 | 0 | $130,000 |
| Winter Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 6 | 0 | 0 | $85,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $80,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Tornado, October 1, 1977
- Flood, August 7, 2018
- Tornado, June 23, 2017
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 18, 2003
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- High Wind, November 9, 2000
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2002
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2014
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Tornado, May 25, 1973
- Hail, July 8, 2001
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
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Hail, May 7, 1971
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Hail, July 13, 2013
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2005
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, June 4, 2001
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Hail, May 20, 1998
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 24, 1971
- Tornado, October 1, 1977
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Tornado, December 18, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2025
- Tornado, May 30, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2023
- Tornado, July 18, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, February 16, 2023
- High Wind, February 9, 2023
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2022
- Hail, May 18, 2022
- Tornado, April 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Tornado, January 1, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, December 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2021
- Tornado, May 3, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2019
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Flood, August 7, 2018
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- 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 5, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Hail, October 20, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 21, 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
- Flood, December 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Hail, July 13, 2013
- Flood, July 10, 2013
- Tornado, June 26, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2013
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 23, 2012
- Flood, November 28, 2011
- Hail, September 4, 2011
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Tornado, October 26, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 14, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 21, 2009
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 22, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 18, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2003
- Tornado, May 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 5, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Hail, August 27, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2002
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Tornado, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Hail, June 4, 2001
- High Wind, November 9, 2000
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Tornado, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Hail, April 15, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Tornado, March 28, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 4, 1997
- Flash Flood, July 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 1996
- Hail, April 29, 1996
- High Wind, January 18, 1996
- High Wind, January 18, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Tornado, May 10, 1995
- Hail, May 25, 1994
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 8, 1992
- Hail, July 30, 1992
- Tornado, June 18, 1992
- Hail, June 7, 1990
- Tornado, June 6, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Hail, July 5, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 4, 1986
- Hail, August 30, 1985
- Tornado, March 15, 1984
- Tornado, August 11, 1983
- Hail, August 5, 1983
- Hail, June 8, 1982
- Hail, August 6, 1979
- Tornado, October 1, 1977
- Tornado, May 25, 1973
- Tornado, May 24, 1971
- Hail, May 7, 1971
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 1970
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 1968
- Tornado, April 23, 1968
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1967
- Hail, December 24, 1964
More
Tornadoes in Marion CountyEvery warning in Marion 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.