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High Wind in Mason, Kentucky

High Wind March 3, 2023 · Mason, Kentucky

71 mph
Measured gust (62 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Kentucky mesonet station located 3 southwest of Maysville recorded a 71 mph gust at 16:40. The AWOS for the Flemingsburg airport KFGX measured a gust to 67 mph at 17:15.

The wider storm

A very strong low pressure system ejected northeast from the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley on Friday, March 3. As the surface low deepened, it created record low pressure readings over many locations in southwest Indiana and western Kentucky.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1088923. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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