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Thunderstorm Wind in Estill County, Kentucky

Thunderstorm Wind April 3, 2025 · Estill County, Kentucky

58 mph
Estimated gust (50 kt)
$35K
Crop damage

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What the National Weather Service wrote

Emergency manager reported a tree on a house in the 900 block at Furnace Jct, northeast of Ravenna. The home is badly damaged as a result. There are other reports of trees down on roads throughout the county from the original round of storms that moved through at approximately 3:35am.

The wider storm

On the afternoon of the 2nd a strong surface low was located over the MN/WI area, with a warm front extending southwest through the OH valley, and a trailing cold front extending SSE through the Ozarks. By 00Z (the evening of the 2nd), a strong convective squall line had developed across the Ohio and Mississippi Valley which slowly continued east through the evening. By early morning on the 3rd this strong, nocturnal convective squall line continued to move through Eastern Kentucky. As the driving cold front approached SE Kentucky behind this convective line, it stalled for several hours before becoming a warm front around 15Z on the 4th. Between the convective squall line early on the 3rd and the cold front becoming a warm front through the 4th, many areas picked up 2 to 5 inches of rainfall, experienced severe wind gusts, wind damage, and flooding.

Began near Pitts (37.7191, -83.8763).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1273559. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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