Thunderstorm Wind, Rowan
- When
- April 28, 6:00 AM EST
- Where
- Rowan County, 3 mi ESE of Rodburn
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.183, -83.350
Trees were down.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 28, 2002
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 Apr 28, 3:05 AM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:05 AM EST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 330 AM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 NOW FIRMLY IN WARM SECTOR. ALL MODEL GUIDANCE SIMILAR IN KICKING RAIN OUT TONIGHT. WILL PUT NORTHERN COUNTIES IN FLOOD WATCH. FFG HAS ALREADY BEEN MET IN SEVERAL COUNTIES AND EXPECTING POSSIBLE SEVERAL ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. KEEPING WIND ADVISORY FOR HIGHER TERRAIN. PREVIOUS FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK FOR MOST PART. BEEFED UP STORM WORDING. LOWERED MAX TEMPS WITH INCREASED CLOUD COVER. COULD SEE SOME TROUBLE STORMS WITHIN A FEW HOURS. ANOTHER ROUND IS QUITE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH A COMBINATION OF INSTABILITY AND STRONG WIND PROFILE COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR US...WITH A RELATIVELY LOW CONVECTIVE TEMP IN THE MID 70S. GOT TO GO. .JKL...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 2000 FEET IN FAR EASTERN KENTUCKY...KYZ087-088-115-117-118-120. HEINLEIN
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 66 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:00 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Kentucky, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Virginia, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Ohio, April 28, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 28, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, April 28, 2002
- Tornado in Illinois, April 28, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 28, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, April 2002
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: 5292869.