Kentucky

Storm History: Pike County, Kentucky

531 episodes, 990 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike 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
990
Deaths
9
Injuries
9
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
531

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 Flood20162$12 million
Hail19401$656,000
Thunderstorm Wind19011$611,000
Tornado12702$3.7 million
Heavy Snow9800$25,000
Flood4610$9.1 million
Winter Storm3900$108,000
Winter Weather3213
Ice Storm1600$1,000
Strong Wind1300$25,000
Frost/Freeze1300
High Wind600$41,000
Debris Flow400$1,000
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Heavy Rain100
Excessive Heat100
Heat100
Dense Fog100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Wildfire100

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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike 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.