Thunderstorm Wind — Breathitt, Kentucky

2023-06-25 · near Beech, Breathitt, Kentucky

Event narrative

A member of the public reported two trees blown down near the mouth of Bowling Creek.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1110181. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.