Wayne storm history

Wayne County Coroner said 70-year-old Tensley Couch died Thursday afternoon in the snow outside of his home in the Jabez community. His cause of death is believed to be cold weather and exertion. The coroner said Couch came home from the store and when his truck became stuck abou…

The public shared a video of a rotating wall cloud with occasional funnel clouds. The rotation moved NE out of Wayne County and into far SW Pulaski County. The individual who filmed the video was looking east towards KY-90 in Mill Springs, and the rotation moved parallel to KY-90…

Shortly after 1 PM EST, nickel-sized hail was reported near Cooper.

Trees and powerlines were reported down along KY-3106 as well as KY-1275 N, between Monticello and Steubenville.

A tree was blown down onto a mobile home, also causing electrical lines to fall on the home, in the 500 block of South Main Street in Monticello.

Wayne County dispatch reported multiple trees blown down along KY-92, west of Monticello.

A tree was blown down and was blocking Michigan Avenue in Monticello, adjacent to the Monticello Wayne County Park.

The CWOP station at Conley Bottom on Cumblerland Lake reported a 59 mph gust as storms began to move through at 12:30am EDT.

A trained spotter reported 1 inch hail in downtown Monticello.

Multiple pictures on social media showed baseball sized hail in Monticello. One such photo and stone was near the intersection of State Highway 3285 and State Highway 776.

Large amounts of ping pong ball sized hail was reported near the Doughboy Statue on Main Street in downtown Monticello.

Multiple reports of broken windows and damaged vinyl siding were made in Monticello for the large hail this evening. At a residence along Bob Carrender Road (Donnie Patton Rd), there were photos of holes in the siding, with hail estimated to be at least ping pong ball sized.

A picture on social media showed piles of melting large hail along Michigan Avenue in Monticello. Some of these stones are at least quarter-sized even after melting some, and the ground is completely covered. Vehicles are also covered in tree debris from the falling hail.

A social media report showed a picture of a couple of hail stones estimated to be the size of golf balls in the Delta community of Wayne County.

Pictures on social media show structural damage along Cherry Street in Monticello from the large hail that fell. Multiple broken windsow and tattered vinyl siding is visible, alongside piles of large, melting hail stones.

Wayne County 911 reports trees downed on Dugan Street in Monticello.

Two large trees were reported to have been blow down along KY-834 near the intersection with Old Fire Trail Road, heading toward KY-90.

The Kentucky Mesonet site in Wayne County (MONT- Monticello 4 NW) recorded a maximum wind gust of 57 mph at 11:30pm on March 4th. Another gust occurred a few minutes earlier (at 11:16pm) clocking 52 mph at the mesonet, and the AWOS station at the Monticello Airport (KEKQ) clocked…

The Wayne County Mesonet station, located 3 miles WNW of Mill Springs, recorded a non-thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph at 8am.

Three weather stations, a Kentucky Mesonet station 4 miles northwest of Monticello, an AWOS at the Monticello Airport, and a personal weather station a the Conley Bottom Resort reported peak wind gusts of 35 to 41 mph between 235 PM EST and 345 PM EST. Isolated higher gusts likel…

Wayne County dispatch reported a tree blown down on KY-834 West approximately one mile north of the intersection with KY-90.

The Mesonet station located 4 miles NW of Monticello measured a 61 mph wind gust at 6:45 PM EDT.

Multiple trees were reported down on road to Jonesville Boat Ramp, south of the community of Keno.

Wayne county dispatch reported that a vehicle hit a tree blown down into the road near the intersection of KY-1568 and Bradley Road, in the community of Frazer.

Wayne county dispatch reported a tree blown down on Twyford Point Road near the lakeshore, west of Monticello.

Multiple trees and powerlines were reported to have been blown down along KY-1275 North, in the direction of Conley Bottom on the Cumberland River, southwest of Somerset.

Numerous 911 calls reporting a roof collapse at the Conley Bottom Resort main pier on Lake Cumberland, leaving people trapped on their boats.

Two large trees were downed on Stone Creek Drive in the Noetown area on the west side of Middlesboro.

A tree was reported downed onto a car in Monticello. Multiple other reports of trees downed across Monticello were also made on X.

North Main Street was closed in front of the Monticello City Fire Department due to flooding.

A public report of quarter sized hail was made in Monticello.

Powerlines were reported to have been blown down on Old Bethel Church Road north of Happy Top.

A tree was reported blown down onto KY-834 W, about 0.25 miles from KY-90 near the community of Susie.

A large tree was down on power lines along Hwy-167 near Patten Creek Road in the community of Mt. Pisgah.

A member of the public reported 4 inches of snowfall near the Monticello area at 2:20pm on January 15. This is not the storm total snowfall through 16th, but still met warning criteria.

A member of the public reported multiple trees blown down in the Bugwood community.

The KEKQ AWOS measured a 51 knot thunderstorm wind gust.

County dispatch reported multiple trees blown down onto KY-92 east of Monticello in the vicinity of Oil Valley.

A tree was reported to have been blown down onto powerlines along KY-167 south of Monticello.

A tree was reported to have been blown down onto powerlines along Missouri Hollow Road south of Monticello.

A tree was reported to have been blown down near the Duncan Branch community along Edwards Mountain Road.

At 1:10 PM EDT, a utility line was reported to have been blown down just WNW of Stuebenville.

The Kentucky Mesonet station in Wayne Couny, located 4 miles NW of Monticello, reported a peak wind gust of 67 mph at 5:15 PM EST.

Tree blown down onto a power line approximately 1 mile southwest of Steubenville leading to local power outages.

A tree fell onto Bowlin Road near the community of Susie.