Kentucky

Storm History: Menifee County, Kentucky

253 episodes, 334 events since 1982

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Menifee 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
334
Deaths
3
Injuries
31
Damage
$9.7 million
Episodes
253

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 Wind7800$263,000
Flash Flood6000$4.8 million
Hail5100$123,000
Heavy Snow3800$1,000
Tornado35330$4.5 million
Ice Storm1500$2,000
Winter Storm1300
Frost/Freeze1200
Flood1100$23,000
Winter Weather800
High Wind700$29,000
Drought200
Lightning101
Excessive Heat100
Heat100
Dense Fog100

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 Menifee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Menifee CountyEvery warning in Menifee 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.