Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, September 8, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, September 8, 2001
Start: 2001-09-08T17:20
End: 2001-09-08T17:25
Location: Kentucky

September 8, 2001 · NWS LMK · 2 events in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Sep 8, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:45 PM EST, 3 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
245 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2001

THE LINE TO THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING HAS
BASICALLY DISSIPATED OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF OUR COUNTY FORECAST
AREA. THE UPPER LEVEL SUPPORTS HAS MOVED WELL TO THE NORTH AND
AVAILABLE MOISTURE WAS CUT OFF AS A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX DEVELOPED
OVER THE WESTERN GULF COAST STATES.

THE ETA AND NGM HAVE COME AROUND TO THE AVN SOLUTION OF BRINGING THE
COLD FRONT ACROSS THE COUNTY FORECAST AREA AROUND 00Z MONDAY. IN THE
MEAN TIME IT SHOULD BE A FAIRLY UNEVENTFUL EVENING AS THE S/W
ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT ROUNDS THE BASE OF THE WESTERN US TROF.
THIS WHOLE SYSTEM WILL SHIFT EAST AS THE BLOCKING HIGH OFF THE EAST
COAST SHIFTS SOUTH.

WE FEEL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI
OVERNIGHT AND SHOULD BE INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY BY DAYBREAK. AS THE
FRONT APPROACHES THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS OUR COUNTY FORECAST AREA. WE WILL
CONTINUE TO MENTION LOWS POPS OVER THE EASTERN COUNTIES MONDAY
MORNING.

MOS TEMPS LOOK OK.

.SDF...NONE.

JA

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Ohio

When: September 8, 5:20 PM EST
Where: Ohio County, 7 mi N of Hartford
Measured: 70 kt (81 mph)
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 37.550, -86.917

A large tree was downed by thunderstorm winds.

Hail, Ohio

When: September 8, 5:25 PM EST
Where: Ohio County, Dundee
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 37.550, -86.783

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.
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

Every storm in Kentucky in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, September 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: 5267744, 5267745.