Lightning in Jessamine County, Kentucky

Lightning August 18, 2020 · Jessamine County, Kentucky

$30K

Damage as recorded

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

What the National Weather Service wrote

Lightning struck a tree which brought down power lines and landed on a house.

The wider storm

While on the western side of an upper trough, a surface low with associated fronts moved south through west-central Kentucky. This produced thunderstorms along the front, stretching west to east through Kentucky. As this line moved south through the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, areas of severe damage resulted.

Began near Wilmore (37.8600, -84.6600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 918710. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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