Kentucky

Storm History: Mason County, Kentucky

280 episodes, 363 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mason 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
363
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
280

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
Flash Flood8510$2.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind6200$220,000
Tornado4507$4.3 million
Hail4300$1.3 million
Winter Storm4200$200,000
Winter Weather2803
Flood2200$127,000
High Wind1100$2.0 million
Heavy Snow900
Ice Storm400
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Strong Wind200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Mason County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mason CountyEvery warning in Mason 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.