Kentucky

Storm History: Webster County, Kentucky

622 episodes, 667 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Webster 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
667
Deaths
6
Injuries
40
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
622

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
Dense Fog8500
Tornado76140$27 million
Hail5200$54,000
Frost/Freeze5000$4.0 million
Winter Weather4900
Strong Wind4900$56,000
Heat4700
Thunderstorm Wind3800$554,000
Flash Flood3810$1.9 million
Drought3400$9.2 million
Winter Storm3100$500,000
Excessive Heat3000
Heavy Snow2000
Flood1900$18,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Ice Storm1140$11 million
High Wind900$56,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Rain400
Wildfire200$10 million
Freezing Fog200
Lightning100$20,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Webster County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Webster CountyEvery warning in Webster 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.