High Wind, Boyd
- When
- January 11, 4:00 AM EST to 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Boyd forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.360, -82.688 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Kentucky, January 11, 2000
A few rain showers, along a secondary cold front, helped transfer wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph to the surface.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 4 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS RLX wrote it up.
A few rain showers, along a secondary cold front, helped transfer wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph to the surface.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
4 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Carter
- When
- January 11, 4:00 AM EST to 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Carter forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.318, -83.049 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Greenup
- When
- January 11, 4:00 AM EST to 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Greenup forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.546, -82.922 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lawrence
- When
- January 11, 4:00 AM EST to 8:00 AM EST
- Where
- Lawrence forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.068, -82.735 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Utah, January 11, 2000
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Maryland, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in Nevada, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in West Virginia, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in West Virginia, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in New Jersey, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in North Carolina, January 11, 2000
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in New Jersey, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in Ohio, January 11, 2000
- High Wind in Maryland, January 11, 2000
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, January 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5127460, 5127461, 5127462, 5127463.