High Wind, Marion
- When
- November 9, 10:45 PM EST
- Where
- Marion forecast zone
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.553, -85.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Kentucky, November 9, 2000
A line of thunderstorms was set off by a cold front earlier in the afternoon. That evening, there were strong gradient winds over Central Kentucky in the wake of the front.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 LMK wrote it up.
A line of thunderstorms was set off by a cold front earlier in the afternoon. That evening, there were strong gradient winds over Central Kentucky in the wake of the front. Three miles west of Lebanon, in Marion County, a mobile home was destroyed by winds, and five or six others were blown off their foundations.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, November 9, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, November 9, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, November 9, 2000
- Tornado in Alabama, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, November 9, 2000
- High Wind in Ohio, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, November 9, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, November 9, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Louisiana, November 9, 2000
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, November 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: 5160343.