Kentucky

Storm History: Pulaski County, Kentucky

536 episodes, 900 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pulaski 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
900
Deaths
12
Injuries
72
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
536

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 Wind23801$2.0 million
Hail19300$7.2 million
Tornado149759$7.9 million
Flash Flood13904$561,000
Flood4723$133,000
Heavy Snow4210$9,000
Winter Storm2211$10,000
Ice Storm1400$1,000
Frost/Freeze1200
Strong Wind900$15,000
Winter Weather800
High Wind700$57,000
Lightning402$30,000
Heat400
Excessive Heat300
Drought300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill210
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog102$50,000
Heavy Rain100
Debris Flow100$1,000

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 Pulaski County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pulaski CountyEvery warning in Pulaski 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.