Kentucky

Storm History: Trigg County, Kentucky

632 episodes, 718 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Trigg 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
718
Deaths
2
Injuries
4
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
632

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
Tornado12200$8.4 million
Dense Fog7300
Hail6700$200,000
Thunderstorm Wind6400$338,000
Frost/Freeze4800$4.0 million
Strong Wind4800$105,000
Winter Weather4400
Heat4300
Drought4100$11 million
Flash Flood4000$399,000
Excessive Heat2900
Winter Storm2814$1.3 million
Heavy Snow1400
Flood1300$185,000
Cold/Wind Chill1100
High Wind900$87,000
Ice Storm810$9.2 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Wildfire500$500,000
Heavy Rain300
Lightning300$10,000

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 Trigg County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Trigg CountyEvery warning in Trigg 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.