Storm History: Spencer County, Kentucky
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Spencer 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
- 211
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- $4.0 million
- Episodes
- 168
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 | 53 | 0 | 1 | $2.4 million |
| Flash Flood | 43 | 1 | 0 | $955,000 |
| Hail | 36 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $4,000 |
| Flood | 15 | 0 | 0 | $580,000 |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, July 26, 1984
- Tornado, April 3, 1989
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2019
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Tornado, June 12, 2004
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Tornado, March 19, 2005
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
- Hail, April 26, 1989
- Hail, May 29, 1982
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Hail, April 28, 2012
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Hail, April 16, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Hail, March 12, 2010
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, October 23, 2025
- Flash Flood, October 7, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Tornado, February 15, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2023
- Tornado, July 1, 2023
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- High Wind, February 27, 2023
- High Wind, February 9, 2023
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Tornado, April 13, 2022
- Tornado, December 10, 2021
- Hail, August 9, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tornado, February 28, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2019
- Flood, December 31, 2018
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Tornado, October 31, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 20, 2018
- Flood, February 22, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2017
- Tornado, March 27, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 3, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 31, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2016
- Blizzard, January 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2015
- Tornado, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, February 4, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2014
- Hail, April 16, 2013
- Hail, July 27, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2012
- Hail, July 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2012
- Hail, April 28, 2012
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Flood, November 28, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 12, 2011
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2010
- Tornado, May 1, 2010
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 7, 2010
- Hail, March 12, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, January 29, 2008
- Flood, December 15, 2007
- Hail, April 11, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 1, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 10, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2006
- Hail, January 2, 2006
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Tornado, March 19, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Hail, October 18, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2004
- Hail, July 13, 2004
- Tornado, June 12, 2004
- Hail, May 15, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2003
- Hail, March 29, 2002
- Hail, July 8, 2001
- Tornado, November 9, 2000
- Hail, October 5, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 20, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2000
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Flash Flood, January 3, 2000
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 1999
- Flood, July 21, 1999
- Flash Flood, April 28, 1999
- Hail, February 27, 1999
- Flood, July 20, 1998
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 22, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Hail, May 20, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1998
- Hail, April 8, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 3, 1998
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Flood, March 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1996
- Tornado, May 28, 1996
- Flood, May 28, 1996
- Hail, May 5, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Tornado, May 14, 1995
- Tornado, June 6, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 1989
- Hail, April 26, 1989
- Tornado, April 3, 1989
- Hail, July 6, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 1987
- Hail, May 7, 1986
- Tornado, March 12, 1986
- Tornado, July 26, 1984
- Tornado, March 15, 1984
- Hail, June 15, 1982
- Hail, May 29, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 1976
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, March 29, 1974
- Tornado, May 6, 1971
More
Tornadoes in Spencer CountyEvery warning in Spencer 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.