Kentucky

Storm History: Morgan County, Kentucky

352 episodes, 543 events since 1970

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morgan 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
543
Deaths
6
Injuries
83
Damage
$81 million
Episodes
352

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 Wind11800$457,000
Hail10500$135,000
Flash Flood8400$960,000
Tornado63683$78 million
Heavy Snow5500
Winter Storm2100$2,000
Ice Storm2000
Flood1800$2.1 million
Winter Weather1700
Frost/Freeze1300
High Wind900$42,000
Strong Wind700$9,000
Excessive Heat300
Heat300
Drought300
Debris Flow200
Dense Fog100
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 Morgan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Morgan CountyEvery warning in Morgan 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.