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Thunderstorm Wind in Lee County, Kentucky

Thunderstorm Wind June 25, 2023 · Lee County, Kentucky

63 mph
Estimated gust (55 kt)
$3K
Crop damage

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What the National Weather Service wrote

A member of the public reported multiple trees blown down on Spencer Ridge Road.

The wider storm

A slow-moving cold front plodded southeastward into western Kentucky during the evening hours of June 25th. Thunderstorms developed along this boundary across the Lower Ohio Valley, grew upscale and became a cold-pool driven line with embedded supercells. These storms dropped southeast across Central Kentucky through a high instability environment before encountering a more stable air mass east of the Pottsville Escarpment. This led to a gradual weakening of the line of storms once they moved into the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields but not before producing dozens of wind damage reports.

Began near Heidelberg (37.5500, -83.8000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1110065. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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