Thunderstorm Wind in Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Trees were down on a property along Dripping Springs Church Road near Wisdom.

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a cold front which pushed through Kentucky during the afternoon and evening hours on July 12th. Immediately ahead of the front, temperatures in the upper 80s and lower 90s combined with dewpoints in the mid-70s to facilitate the development of greater than 3000 J/kg mixed-layer CAPE. With plenty of fuel to work with, storms grew rapidly, especially across south central Kentucky, leading to isolated wind damage reports in association with the strongest cells.

On July 14th, the mid-level trough which brought the cold front and associated thunderstorms through Kentucky two days prior began to shift off to the east. A weak surface frontal boundary developed over portions of southwestern Kentucky, and frontal convergence along with modest instability helped contribute to the development of scattered strong thunderstorms across southern and central Kentucky. One of these storms was just strong enough to produce scattered wind damage across Grayson County.