Kentucky, 2001

Hail in Kentucky, June 26, 2001

June 26, 2001 · NWS JKL · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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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 26, 12:25 PM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 12:25 PM EST, 5 hours 25 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...COR...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
125 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2001

50H CHART HAS LOW PRESS BTWN BWG AND BNA. NUMEROUS VORT MAXES
ROTATING AROUND CTR WHICH WILL SET OFF TSRA WHENEVVER THEY MEET AN
AREA OF LLVL CONVERGENCE. PCPN SPILLING NORTH ACROSS THE MTNS WITH
TSRA CROPPING UP IN AREAS WITH MINIMAL CLOUD COVER. TRAJECTORIES
PROJECT PCPN ACTIVITY ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON AND AM
CONCERNED THAT 40 POP MAY NOT BE ENUF. WILL MONITOR FOR POSSIBLE
HIGHER POPS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TSRA ACTIVITY WILL SUBSIDE
AFTER SUNSET BUT IT COULD BE ANOTHER BUSY AFTERNOON.

MODELS ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT AND HARD TO ISOLATE ONE AS THE BETTER
MODEL. GENERALLY GOING WITH THE AVN ALTHOUGH THE ETA HAS LESS PCPN
FOR OUR CWFA FOR WED. SEE NO REASON FOR NOT GETTING WIDELY SCT TSRA
WITH AFTERNOON HEATING BUT WILL GENRALLY GO WITH AN OPTIMISTIC 20
POP FOR WED TO GIVE THE BROKEN RECORD A REST. THU THE LOW SHOULD BE
FAR ENUF WEST OR SW TO LIMIT IT/S EFFECTS BUT THE BERMUDA HIGH WILL
KICK IN WITH INCREASED SOUTHERLY FLOW.

THU PM DIURNAL SHRA/TSRA SET UP AGAIN WITH THE NEXT BREAK IN PCPN
AFTER THE WEEKEND. 50H FLOW BECOMES MORE AMPLIFIED OVER THE WEEKEND
AND A COOL FNT DROPS INTO A DEVELOPING TROF OVER THE ERN THIRD OF
U/S. FNT TO PUSH THRU KY MON MORN WITH DRIER AIR FOLLOWING SO WILL
CURRENTLY FCST MON AND TUE AS DRY.  WED COULD SEE SOME PCPN AS THE
NEXT S/W DECENDS INTO THE AREA FROM THE WRN GT LKS.

GUIDANCE TEMPS AND POPS WITHIN REASON AND WILL ONLY MAKE MINOR
CHANGES. HIGH TEMPS LOOK 1 OR 2 DEG TOO WARM AND POPS SLIGHTLY
UNDERDONE FOR THE AFTERNOONS.

.JKL...NONE.

DUSTY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 3:27 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON, KY
427 PM EDT TUE JUN 26 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

03g55 PM    ZULA                      KY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/26/01   WAYNE                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:50 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Wayne

When
June 26, 5:50 PM EST
Where
Wayne County, Monticello
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
36.833, -84.833

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.

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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: 5252754.