Thunderstorm Wind, Letcher
- When
- June 25, 5:10 PM EST
- Where
- Letcher County, Seco
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.167, -82.717
Trees were down and power outages were reported.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, June 25, 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 Jun 25, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 320 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002 MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT AND SEE LITTLE REASON TO DISAGREE. HAVE KEPT THE DATABASE INTACT WITH ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS IN THE NEAR TERM USING MESOETA. CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT LIKELY FORMED ALONG PRE-EXISTENT OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. WITH WEAK FLOW THESE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND PRODUCE ADDITIONAL OUTFLOWS. THIS WILL LIKELY BE THE RULE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. GIVEN THE COORDINATION OF NDFD HAVE ONLY MADE COSMETIC CHANGES TO MELD THE GRIDS. .JKL...NONE. LEWIS
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:10 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 Maryland, June 25 to 26, 2002
- Heat in Missouri, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 25, 2002
- Flooding and Hail in Ohio, June 25, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 25, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 25, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, June 25, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 25, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2002
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5300857.