Thunderstorm Wind, Russell
- When
- June 14, 4:30 PM EST
- Where
- Russell County, Jamestown
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 36.983, -85.067
Several trees were downed in Jamestown. Power was out across portions of the city.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 14, 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
- 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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 2:29 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:29 PM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 645 AM EDT THU JUNE 14 2001 WITH VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE ACROSS FA....AND SOME OUTFLOW BOUNDAIRES IN PLACE....WILL METN A CHANC OF TRW/RW ACRSS FA UNTIL MID. A BETTER CHC OF TSTMS ON FRI INTO FRI NITE AS A WEAKNING COLD FRONT/TROUGH MOVES ACRS THE FA. WILL GO WI 40 TO 60 PCT POPS ON FRI INTO FRI NITE IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYS. ONCE WEAK SYS CLEARS THE FA ON FRI NITE...REALLY NOT MUCH CHC OF ANY MORE PCPN UNTIL THU. .SDF...NONE.
The 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 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: 5250745.