Thunderstorm Wind, Todd
- When
- July 30, 10:20 AM CST
- Where
- Todd County, 6 mi SSW of Elkton
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- POST OFFICE
- Coordinates
- 36.733, -87.183
Large tree limbs were down on Highway 181.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 30, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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 Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 12:45 AM CST, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 12:45 AM CST, 9 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 145 AM CDT TUE JUL 30 2002 PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN REMAINS THE SMALL CHANCE FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY. LATEST KPAH 88D TIME LAPSE SHOWS A FEW SHOWERS LEFT JUST SOUTHEAST OF PADUCAH FROM THE CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPED DURING THE EVENING HOURS. ACTIVITY APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN FOCUSED IN THE HIGHER THETA-E AIR ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF A WEAK 850 MB THERMAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING ACROSS SOUTHWEST INDIANA...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND INTO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN DRIFTING THIS BOUNDARY SLOWLY SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE BOUNDARY...COPIOUS MOISTURE...AND ALREADY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS...WILL MAINTAIN CHANCE POPS OVER SOUTHERN COUNTIES TODAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS DEPICT MUCH DRIER AIR WILL WORK INTO NORTHERN PARTS OF THE REGION JUST ABOVE THE BOUNDARY LAYER...SO WILL LEAVE OUT ANY MENTION OF PRECIPITATION THERE. I SUPPOSE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM COULD NOT BE RULED OUT...BUT ANTICIPATED COVERAGE IS TOO SMALL TO JUSTIFY A MENTION IN THE FORECAST. TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...AVN STRAYS FROM THE NGM/ETA SOLUTIONS BY MAINTAINING HIGHER MOISTURE LEVELS OVER SOUTHERN COUNTIES. THIS IS ALSO REFLECTED IN CHANCE POPS FOR MAV MOS SITES IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY. PREFER THE ETA/NGM SOLUTION FOR ITS BETTER RUN-TO-RUN CONTINUITY...SO WILL KEEP CONDITIONS DRY FOR PERIODS 2 AND 3. FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND...THE UPPER LEVEL HIGH CURRENTLY OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES WILL MIGRATE EAST TOWARD THE MID MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. THIS WILL RESULT IN MORE HOT DRY WEATHER RIGHT THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. AVN SHOWS A WEAK FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA ON THURSDAY...BUT THIS WILL LIKELY WASH OUT BEFORE REACHING THE FOUR-STATE REGION. THINK TEMPERATURES MIGHT TRY TO REBOUND INTO THE MID 90S AS THE HIGH MOVES CLOSER...BUT WITHOUT NEW MEX GUIDANCE...WILL STICK WITH GOING FORECAST IN THE LOWER 90S AT THIS TIME. IN FACT...ANTICIPATE ONLY VERY MINOR CHANGES TO PRESENT FORECAST...MAINLY TO CONSOLIDATE A FEW ZONE GROUPS. .PAH...NONE. RJP
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Flood and Hail in Georgia, July 30, 2002
- Heat in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 30, 2002
- Lightning Strikes in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Arkansas, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, July 30, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 30, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, July 30 to 31, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5302181.