Thunderstorm Wind, Boone
- When
- August 11, 4:05 PM EST to 4:08 PM EST
- Where
- Boone County, Florence
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 38.983, -84.617
Trees were blown down .
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 11, 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
- $3,000
- 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 11, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT SUN AUG 11 2002 CONVECTION BEGAN DEVELOPING LAST COUPLE OF HOURS MAINLY SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF FA. THIS CONVECTION EXPECTED TO CONITNUE PAST SUNSET WITH SOME UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FROM VORT MAX. HOWEVER...SHOULD SEE SOME DECREASE IN ACTIVITY LATER TONIGHT. MODELS CONTINUE TO BE SIMILAR THIS RUN WITH FRONT DAY 3 TO 4 SLOWING JUST A BIT. EXPECT CONVECTION TO DEVELOP AGAIN MONDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST FLOW. BEST CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION AHEAD OF AND WITH FRONT TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MORE CLOUDINESS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS THAN WE HAVE SEEN OF LATE SO HIGHS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES LOWER. MAV AND FWC GUIDANCE IS SIMILAR AND USED A BLEND OF TWO. .ILN...NONE. PARKER
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:06 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
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Tornado in North Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Heat in New Jersey, August 11 to 20, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 11, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, August 11, 2002
- Wildfire in California, August 11 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 11, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, August 11, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, August 11 to 12, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 11, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, August 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: 5315059.