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Past Significant Weather Events

 

Top 25 Weather Events of All-Time in Central Kentucky and Southern Indiana

Top Ten Lists for Tornadoes, Tornado Outbreaks, Flash Floods, Floods, Hail, Heat, Cold, and Winter Weather

Top 15 Local Weather Events of the First Decade of the 21st Century, 2000-2009

Derby Weather

Kentucky Flood Page
Indiana Flood Page

Past Violent Tornadoes (F4/EF4/F5/EF5) in Indiana and Kentucky

Ohio River frozen

 

2016
January 22 snow
Severe Weather March 31
It's Been Windy So Far This Year
Unusual Car Top Frost
Storms on April 26
Gustnado or Crop Circles?
Storms on May 1


 

2015
January 23-24 snow
March 4-5 heavy rain and snowstorm
December 23 Thunderstorm Winds

 

 

2014
May 10, 2014 hail
September 15, 2014 turbulent skies
October 7 Tornado Outbreak

 

 

 

2013
January 30 tornadoes and squall line
June 10 EF2 tornado in Logan and Simpson Counties
June 26 storms including EF2 tornado in LaRue County
December 21 storms including three EF1 tornadoes

 

 

2012
January 17 tornadoes and squall line
February 29 tornadoes
March 2 tornadoes and hail
March 23 tornadoes
April 28 hailstorms
July 19 storms

 

 

2011
January 20 snowfall
February 7 snowfall
February 24 tornadoes and wind damage
February 28 tornadoes and wind damage
March 12 flooding
March 23 hail and wind
April 4 tornadoes
April 9 hail and high winds
April 19-20 tornado outbreak
April 22 Woodford County tornadoes
April 23 Harrison County, Kentucky tornado
April 26 100mph straight-line winds in Logan County
April 26 Tornadoes in Grayson County and Hardin County
April 27 Tornadoes in Green, Monroe, and Cumberland Counties
April 28 mammatus and rainbows
April flooding
May 10 huge hail
May 25 tornadoes
June 22 Louisville area tornadoes
June 26 Dubois and Perry County tornadoes
August 13 Interstate 64 wind damage
November 14 Paoli Tornado

 

  

2010
January 7 snowfall
April 24 tornadoes
May 1-2 Flood
May 21 wall clouds and hail
June 15 storms
October 26 tornadoes
November 25-26 snow
December 4 snow
Top 10 Events of the Year

 

2009
January 26-28 Snow and Ice Storm
April 10 Lincoln County tornado
May 8 EF-3 tornado in Garrard and Madison Counties
June 11 tornadoes
June 16 derecho
July 30 tornado in Allen County
August 4 flash flood
October 9 tornadoes, wind damage, and flooding

 

2008
January 29 Squall Line and Tornadoes
February 5-6 Tornado Outbreak
March 7-8 Snowstorm
April 11 Clinton County Tornadoes
September 14 Windstorm
December 16 Snow

 

2007
April 3 Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms
June 5 Severe Thunderstorms
June 28 Roll Clouds and Shelf Clouds in Southern Kentucky
October 18 Tornado Outbreak

 

2006
January 2 Tornadoes
April 2 Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms
April 7 Severe Thunderstorms
May 18 Severe Thunderstorm in Campbellsville
July 14 Flooding and Severe Weather
August 10 Flooding and Severe Weather
August 18 Flooding in Richmond
September 22-23 Flooding and Severe Weather

 

2005
April 22 Severe Thunderstorms and Tornado
April 26 Rainbows
May 19 Severe Thunderstorms and Flooding
June 14 Severe Thunderstorms
November 6 Munfordville Tornado
November 15 Tornadoes south of Bowling Green

 

2004
May 27
May 30
June 12 Tornado in Breckinridge County
July 5 Severe Thunderstorms
July 6 Severe Thunderstorms
July 13 derecho
December 22 Snow and Ice Storm

 

2003
April 20 Severe Thunderstorms
May 8 Tornado Damage in Perry and Breckinridge counties

May 11

May 17 Tornado in Harrison County, Indiana

 

Pre-2003
August 27, 1854 Louisville Tornado The Flood of 1945
May 27, 1873 downburst Ice on the Ohio River in 1948
April 13, 1876 Louisville Tornado 1974 Tornado at Campbellsburg, Kentucky
November 28, 1879 Louisville Tornado 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak
Louisville's Deadliest Day:  The March 27, 1890 Tornado March 10, 1986 Lexington Tornado
The Amazing Cold Front of November 11-12, 1911 May 28, 1996 F4 Tornado
May 9, 1933 Tompkinsville Tornado  The Flood of 1997
The Great Flood of 1937