Kentucky

Storm History: Marion County, Kentucky

178 episodes, 255 events since 1964

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.

Open the live radar over Marion County

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
Tornado9105$6.3 million
Flash Flood5110$200,000
Hail4502$180,000
Thunderstorm Wind2300$130,000
Winter Storm1300
Flood800$250,000
Heavy Snow700
High Wind600$85,000
Ice Storm500$80,000
Frost/Freeze500
Blizzard100

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 Marion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.