Hail, Letcher
- When
- June 14, 6:07 PM EST
- Where
- Letcher County, Whitesburg
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.117, -82.817
Hail in Kentucky, June 14, 2001
1 hail, 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
- None recorded
- 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 Jun 14, 12:15 PM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 12:15 PM EST, 5 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 115 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001 THE NEW MODEL RUNS CONFIRM THE COLD FRONT TIMING OF THE PREVIOUS FORECASTER. THE ZONE FORECASTS ISSUED LATER THIS AFTERNOON WILL NOT DIFFER APPRECIABLY FROM THE CURRENT PACKAGE. FOR TONIGHT...A LOBE OF POSITIVE VORTICITY WITHIN A BAND RELATED TO THE UPPER LOW OVER THE CAROLINAS...PERSISTS OVER EASTERN KY. THAT FEATURE AND A STRONGLY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WILL KEEP PULSE TYPE STORMS GOING THIS EVENING ...SO A 20 PERCENT POP WILL BE FORECASTED. ON FRIDAY...AN UPPER TROUGH OUT WEST WILL ACCELERATE EAST AS FAST ZONAL FLOW MOVES OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL CONUS. AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY. A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...BUT THE PUBLIC WILL NOT BE ALERTED YET SINCE THE MAIN ENERGY STAYS TO OUR NORTH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH TO SHOWERS OVERNIGHT AS THE FRONT EXITS THE STATE. IT WILL BE PARTLY CLOUDY AND A LITTLE LESS MUGGY FOR SATURDAY. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...THE LATEST MRF RUN PUSHES THE NEXT RAIN CHANCES OUT TO THURSDAY. I WILL LEAVE IT DRY FOR NOW. JKL 68/85 66/85 2552 LOZ 68/86 88/86 2542 JKL...NONE. SCHAUB
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 69 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:08 UTC.
Event by event
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Tornadoes in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, June 14, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 14 to 20, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 14, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Kansas, June 14, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Extreme Cold in Colorado, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, June 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Iowa, June 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5252742.