3 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 14, 3:50 AM EST, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 350 AM EST FRI DEC 14 2001 SAT AND RADAR DATA BOTH INDICATE THAT MAIN PCPN SHIELD IS ESSENTIALLY EAST OF FA AT THIS TIME. FIRST FCST PROB IN DEALING WITH CLDS,PCPN AND WIND FIELDS ACRS FA AS SFC LOW MOVES FROM WRN TN TO NEAR SDF THIS MORNING AND THEN OFF TO NE OF FA BY MIDDAY. ANY ADDITIONAL PCPN WILL BE RELATIVELY LIGHT. THE NEXT MJR FCST PROB DEALING WITH ONSET ON CLDS AND PCPN WI YET ANOTHER STRONG TROF TO IMPACT FA LATE SAT NITE OR SUN INTO MONDAY. WILL GO WI INCRSG CLDS AND CHC OF R- ACRSS FA BY LATE SAT NIGHT. LIKELY RW ON SUN AND SUN NITE WITH RW ENDING EARLY ON MONDAY. I DO NOT NORMALLY CHANGE THE EXTENDED...BUT LOOKING AT THE AVN RUN... THICKNESS FIELDS TOO WARM FOR ANY SW- WI THIS NEXT SYS SO WILL DROP MTN OF FLURRIES AND GO WI RW ENDING. AN AVERAGE OF THE FWC AND AVN MOS TEMPS AND POPS LUKS BEST AND WILL BE USED AS GENRL GUID FOR THIS FCST. .SDF...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were downed in Lancaster. There was isolated unspecified structural damage.
Trees and power lines were downed at Richmond.
Several trees were downed and there was isolated unspecified structural damage at Campbellsville.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, December 2001
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: 5273908, 5273909, 5273910.