Kentucky

Storm History: Trimble County, Kentucky

149 episodes, 196 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Trimble 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
196
Deaths
0
Injuries
10
Damage
$5.2 million
Episodes
149

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
Tornado4704$4.3 million
Flash Flood4300$175,000
Hail3902$108,000
Thunderstorm Wind2100$55,000
Winter Storm1200
Heavy Snow1100
Flood1100$600,000
Frost/Freeze500
Ice Storm300
High Wind304
Blizzard100

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 Trimble County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Trimble CountyEvery warning in Trimble 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.