Thunderstorm Wind in Clay County, Kentucky

Multiple trees were blown down on Route 149 near the community of Eriline.

The Upper Midwest was under the gun on July 23rd, with SPC forecasting damaging thunderstorm wind gusts (some of 75 mph), very large hail, and a few tornadoes. As convection was ongoing well to our northwest, diurnally driven showers and thunderstorms had popped up across eastern KY amid a warm and moist airmass in place. WPC analyzed an outflow boundary dropping south across the Ohio Valley from the larger area of main convection. By the time it made it into eastern KY, this likely served as a extra boundary to lead to destabalization and strengthening of a couple of the storms. Several localized thunderstorm wind reports were made before storms eventually fizzled out heading into the ovenright hours with loss of daytime forcing.

An area of storms northeast of the state during the morning hours eventually made their way southeast and into eastern Kentucky by the late afternoon and evening.