Thunderstorm Wind, Breathitt
- When
- June 21, 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Breathitt County, 10 mi SW of Jackson
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 37.450, -83.517
Winds blew down several trees over Belcher Fork Road.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 21, 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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 21, 6:50 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 6:50 PM EST, 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 750 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE ZONE FORECASTS WILL BE UPDATED SOON TO REMOVE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PART OF EASTERN KENTUCKY...AND LOWER POPS TO 50 PERCENT OVERNIGHT FOR MOSTLY SHOWERS. THE FOLLOWING PICKS UP THAT PART OF THE AFTERNOON DISCUSSION THAT IS STILL APPLICABLE. THE TIMING SHOWN IN THE NGM AND AVN MODELS IS MORE REASONABLE THAN THAT IN THE ETA MODEL...AND SHOWS THE CONVECTIVE BAND SPREADING OVER EASTERN KY BETWEEN 8 PM TONIGHT AND 2 AM FRIDAY MORNING. THE BAND WILL PERSIST OVER EASTERN KY MOST OF FRIDAY AS THE MAIN SHORT WAVE ENERGY MOVES TO OUR NORTH AND THE SURFACE COLD FRONT DRAGS ACROSS THE STATE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH TO SCATTERED FRIDAY NIGHT AND CLOUDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE FROM WEST TO EAST INTO SATURDAY. THE NGM MOS TEMPERATURES AND POPS LOOK GOOD. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...A CUTOFF LOW FORMS OVER APPALACHIA AND HANGS OVER KY THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS COLD CORE SYSTEM WILL CAUSE CONVECTIVE OVERTURNING AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE SEASONABLE. .JKL...NONE. SCHAUB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 21, 6:48 PM EST, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
748 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0700 PM WHITLEY CITY KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/21/01 MCCREARY REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER.
0732 PM STEARNS KY FLOOD
06/21/01 MCCREARY WATER OVER NUMEROUS ROADS.
REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER.The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 24 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:00 UTC.
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
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, June 21, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, June 21 to 22, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 21, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Virginia, June 21, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 21, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 21, 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: 5252752.