Thunderstorm Wind, McCreary
- When
- July 4, 2:10 PM EST
- Where
- McCreary County, Stearns
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 36.700, -84.467
Trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $2,000
- 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 forecasters said that day
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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 4, 9:50 AM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:50 AM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1050 AM EDT WED JUL 4 2001 14Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS A COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM MICHIGAN THROUGH SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY AND DOWN TO ARKANSAS. A SECONDARY FRONT IS DROPPING THROUGH NORTHERN ILLINOIS AND IOWA. AN MCS IS WORKING ITS WAY THROUGH EAST KENTUCKY WITH HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. THIS WILL BE DYING OUT TOWARD NOON LEAVING US IN A LULL UNTIL AFTERNOON HEATING AND THE NEARBY BOUNDARY LIKELY SPARK ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. DUE TO THE RAIN AND LEFTOVER CLOUDS... WILL UPDATE TO LOWER TEMPS A TAD ACROSS THE AREA. WILL ALSO FINE TUNE POPS AND SKY COVER. UPDATE OUT SHORTLY. .JKL...NONE. GReEIF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 4, 1:43 PM EST, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
243 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0236 PM SCIENCE HILL KY 2.75 INCH HAIL
07/04/01 PULASKI REPORTED BY TRAINED
SPOTTER.
JPThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Drought in Oklahoma, July 4 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 4, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 4, 2001
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, July 2001
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: 5257417.