Kentucky, 2001

Hail in Kentucky, March 13, 2001

March 13, 2001 · NWS LMK · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

3 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Tropical storms and surge
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  • Hail
  • 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
3

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 Mar 12, 3:32 PM EST, 9 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 3:32 PM EST, 9 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
300 PM EST MON MAR 12 2001

MODELS RATHER CONSISTENT IN EVOLUTION OF SYSTEM MOVING ACRS FCST
AREA TNGT. CURRENTLY...DEEP SW FLOW HAS ALLOWED MORE RAINFALL THAN
ORIGINALLY EXPCTD TO STREAK NEWD ACRS ERN PART OF FCST AREA. THIS
RAIN WL CONT TO MOVE NEWD LATE THIS AFTN OUT OF THE AREA. ELSEWHERE
WOULD EXPECT LTL OR NO PRECIP UNTIL CDFNT APCHS LATER TNGT. MAIN
QUESTIONS ARE HOW MUCH PRECIP WL REDVLP ALG FNT AND POTNL SEVERITY
OF ANY TSTMS THAT DVLP.

WTR VPR IMAGERY CURRENTLY SHOWS BACK EDGE OF MID/HI CLDS JUST EAST
OF MS RVR AHEAD OF DRY PUNCH MOVG NEWD ACRS AR AND SERN MO. VIS
IMAGERY DEPICTING CLRG OVR AR...WRN TN...INTO PARTS OF MO AND
W-CNTRL IL IN WAKE OF UPR S/WV. AS A RESULT...PARTS OF CENTRAL KY
SHOULD SEE TEMPORARY CLRG THIS EVNG...ESPCLY WRN AND SRN AREAS WHICH
IS REFLECTED IN FCST. IT IS WITHIN THIS AREA OF CLRG THAT CURRENT
MSAS DATA SHOWS MODEST DESTABILIZATION. LOW-LVL CNVRGNC ALG CDFNT
AND GENERAL FORCING ASSOCD WITH SECONDARY S/WV MOVG THRU BASE OF
MEAN UPR TROF AT THIS TIME SHOULD PERMIT A SCT-BKN LINE OF SHOWERS
AND TSTMS TO DVLP TO OUR W THIS EVNG. THIS LINE WL THEN RACE NEWD
ACRS OUR AREA LATE THIS EVNG AND OVRNGT. GIVEN EXPECTED NOCTURNAL
ARRIVAL TIME IN OUR AREA...WOULD EXPCT MOST TSTMS TO REMAIN BELOW
SVR LIMITS ALTHOUGH SOME HAIL AND ISOLATED WIND DAMAGE REMAINS PSBL.

PRECIP WL END BEFORE DAYBREAK FOLLOWED BY PARTIAL CLRG TUE MRNG
BEHIND CDFNT. HOWEVER...ANOTHER STG S/WV AND SECONDARY SFC TROF
PROGGED TO ROTATE ACRS KY ON TUES. DEEPEST MSTR WL REMAIN N OF FCST
AREA GIVEN FCST S/WV TRACK. NEVERTHELESS...GIVEN FAIRLY STEEP LAPSE RATES
UP TO ABOUT 600 MB ON MODEL SNDGS COUPLED WITH MODEST LOW-LVL MSTR
AND FORCING ALG TROF AXIS...SCT AFTN SHWRS SHOULD DVLP ACRS FCST
AREA...ESPCLY NRN SECTIONS. THIS WAS REFLECTED IN EARLIER ZONE PCKG
AND STILL LOOKS REASONABLE...ALTTHO S-CNTRL KY MAY SEE INTERVALS ON
SUNSHINE EVEN IN AFTN. A BRIEF RESPITE THEN IN ORDER ON WED BEFORE
NEXT CHC OF PRECIP LATE IN WEEK.

FWC/MAV MOS GUIDANCE TEMPS CLOSE APR TO BE ON RIGHT TRACK.

.SDF...NONE

FUNK

The radar

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Event by event

3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Hart

When
March 13, 1:30 AM EST
Where
Hart County, 1 mi E of Bonnieville
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates
37.367, -85.900

Hail, Cumberland

When
March 13, 3:30 AM EST
Where
Cumberland County, Peytonsburg
Measured
0.75 in hail
Reported by
FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
Coordinates
36.633, -85.383

Hail, Clinton

When
March 13, 3:35 AM EST
Where
Clinton County, Albany
Measured
1 in hail
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
36.683, -85.133

What these are

Hail
Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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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: 5236157, 5236158, 5236159.