Thunderstorm Wind in Lee County, Kentucky

Thunderstorm Wind June 25, 2023 · Lee County, Kentucky

63 mph

Estimated gust (55 kt)

$4K

Crop damage

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A member of the public reported several trees blown down on Pine Grove Road in southern Lee County near the Owsley County line.

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 Lower Buffalo (37.5188, -83.7137).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1110139. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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