Kentucky

Storm History: Robertson County, Kentucky

120 episodes, 131 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Robertson 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
131
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.9 million
Episodes
120

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
Winter Storm3400$200,000
Thunderstorm Wind1900$146,000
Hail1800$59,000
Flash Flood1600$602,000
Tornado700$89,000
Heavy Snow700
High Wind700$281,000
Flood700$2,000
Excessive Heat400
Ice Storm300
Heat300
Winter Weather300
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$465,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Robertson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Robertson CountyEvery warning in Robertson 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.