Storm History: Monroe County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Monroe 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
- 199
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $6.1 million
- Episodes
- 143
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 | 56 | 0 | 0 | $5.8 million |
| Flash Flood | 44 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Hail | 42 | 0 | 0 | $205,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 31 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Winter Storm | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 3 | 1 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, May 22, 1989
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, March 1, 1997
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Hail, July 4, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2000
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Flood, July 10, 2013
- Tornado, June 21, 2019
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Hail, April 26, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2010
- Flood, December 31, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2001
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, August 29, 1990
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Hail, May 15, 2010
- Hail, February 18, 2009
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, July 13, 2004
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2025
- Tornado, February 15, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Tornado, December 9, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, February 16, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 6, 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, May 3, 2021
- Tornado, February 28, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Flash Flood, January 25, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 12, 2020
- Hail, January 11, 2020
- Hail, August 13, 2019
- Tornado, June 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2019
- Flood, December 31, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2018
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 6, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2016
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Hail, May 22, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Tornado, December 21, 2013
- Flood, July 10, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2012
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 14, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2010
- Hail, May 15, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2009
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2009
- Tornado, June 10, 2009
- Hail, April 5, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 27, 2009
- Hail, February 18, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Hail, July 22, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2007
- Hail, April 26, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Hail, July 4, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2006
- Hail, May 19, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 22, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2005
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 5, 2004
- Tornado, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2003
- Hail, May 1, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2002
- Flash Flood, March 17, 2002
- Hail, October 24, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 5, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2000
- Hail, July 29, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2000
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 23, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 14, 1998
- Hail, June 14, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 5, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Tornado, March 1, 1997
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Hail, August 29, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 16, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, May 22, 1989
- Hail, August 27, 1986
- Tornado, May 6, 1984
- Hail, August 27, 1983
- Hail, August 5, 1983
- Hail, April 5, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 22, 1975
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 24, 1972
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 15, 1971
More
Tornadoes in Monroe CountyEvery warning in Monroe 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.