Name: Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 22, 2002
Start: 2002-07-22T16:50
End: 2002-07-22T16:53
Location: Kentucky

Where it happened

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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 Jul 22, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
345 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2002

SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATES BROAD SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER FA WITH
COLD FRONT FROM WESTERN GREAT LAKES INTO IOWA.  SATELLITE IMAGERY
INDICATES SOME LEFT OVER DEBRIS CLOUDS OVER NORTHERN FA.

MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH BRINGING FRONT TO NEAR I-71 BY 12Z
TUESDAY MORNING.  ALL BUT THE AVN PUSHES SOUTH OF FA BY AROUND 18Z.
IT APPEARS CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK OVER INDIANA TRIES TO HOLD UP THE
FRONT.  WILL IGNORE THIS SOLUTION FOR THE MOMENT.  ETA SHOWS
RESPECTABLE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE/UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE COUPLET
DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT OVER NW FA.  AS A RESULT WILL UP POPS NW OF
I-71.  WILL ALSO MENTION POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN WITH PWS > 2 WITH
TRAINING A POSSIBILITY (ESPECIALLY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN HALF
OF FA).  WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY OVER SOUTHERN FA FOR TUESDAY
MORNING...THEN WILL CUT BACK TO CHANCE POPS.

FOR THIS AFTERNOON WILL ADD ISOLATED TRW ACROSS NORTHERN FA.
INSTABILITY REACHES 2000 TO 3000 J/KG WITH MODELS PICKING UP ON SOME
WEAK LIFT.  THIS WAS ENOUGH TO SPAWN ISOLATED COVERAGE YESTERDAY
ACROSS NORTHERN FA.  WILL ADD IN STRONG WORDING THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT ACROSS THE NW HALF OF FA.  SPC HAS MOST OF FA IN SLIGHT
RISK.  WET BULB ZERO WILL BE BETWEEN 10 AND 11 KFT...CAPE WILL BE
1500 TO 2000 J/KG.  THINK WIND DAMAGE WILL BE THE GREATEST THREAT
WITH STORMS PULSING/MERGING ALONG SQUALL LINE WHICH WILL MOVE
THROUGH OVERNIGHT.  WITH TIMING AFTER DARK WILL MENTION STRONG
STORMS INSTEAD OF SEVERE.  WILL ISSUE SPS.

WILL KEEP HEAT ADVISORY AND WARNINGS FOR FA.  HEAT INDICES WILL BE
A BIT WARMER THAN YESTERDAY WITH TDS/RH BEING A BIT HIGHER AND
TEMPERATURES SIMILAR

FWC/MAV LOOKS IN DESCENT SHAPE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS.  MISILN OUT
SHORTLY.

.ILN...
IN...HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES
     INZ050...INZ058>059...INZ066...INZ073>075...INZ080.

KY...HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES KYZ089>100.

OH...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES
     OHZ061...OHZ077.
     HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES
     OHZ026...OHZ034>035...OHZ042>046...OHZ051>056...OHZ060...
     OHZ062>065...OHZ070>074...OHZ078>082...OHZ088.

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The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 100 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:51 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Mason

When: July 22, 4:50 PM EST to 4:53 PM EST
Where: Mason County, Mays Lick
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.517, -83.833

Several trees and limbs were downed.

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

More

Every storm in Kentucky in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, July 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: 5311857.