Hail in Kentucky, May 19, 2005

Name: Hail in Kentucky, May 19, 2005
Start: 2005-05-19T16:35
End: 2005-05-19T16:45
Location: Kentucky

May 19, 2005 · NWS JKL · 2 events in 1 county or zone

2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 May 19, 3:11 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 3:11 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
410PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)...
SURFACE LOW OVER IL WITH A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING ESE
ACROSS NORTHER PORTION OF JKL FA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
DEVELOPED IN VCTY OF THE WARM FRONT...AS WELL AS IN THE WARM SECTOR
ACROSS MOST OF KY. NAM/GFS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MOVING THIS
SURFACE LOW SLOWLY TO THE ESE. IT SHOULD CROSS THE JKL AREA DURING
THE DAY ON FRIDAY. UNTIL THAT TIME...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE IN THE FCST. MID-LEVEL S/W WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS
EVENING...WITH ANOTHER FOLLOWING EARLY FRIDAY. BDRY LAYER FORCING IS
RATHER WEAK IN THE WARM SECTOR...BUT ANY FORCING WILL ALLOW
CONVECTION TO TRIGGER IN MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SCATTERED
SEVERE WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

SURFACE SYSTEM SHOULD MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY LATE FRIDAY. CHANCE
OF SHOWERS SHOULD DIMINISH AS THE DAY PROGRESSES...ALTHOUGH MO CLOUDY
CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN. SKIES SHOULD BEGIN TO CLEAR OUT LATER FRIDAY.
HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD BUILD IN ON SATURDAY.

&&

.LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...
FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF GTLAKES SHORTWAVE MONDAY...NW UPR FLOW
CONTINUES AND SHRA LINGERS IN COLDER AIRMASS. TEMPS WELL BELOW
NORMAL FOR MON INTO EARLY TUES..BEFORE WEAK RIDGING ALLOWS TEMPS TO
MODERATE SOME. GFS LR SIMILAR TO ECMWF BEYOND 00Z TUE...WTH DRY
CONDITIONS FROM TUE NIGHT THROUGH END OF FCST PERIOD. MORE ZONAL
PATTERN MOVES IN BY VERY LATE IN PERIOD...WTH POSSIBILITY OF PRECIP
TOWARD VERY END OF PERIOD...AS ANOTHER GTLAKES S/WV PUSHES
THROUGH BEGINNING ON FRI.

&&

.JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.ST...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:44 AM EST, 11 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
544 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-201100-
BATH-BELL-BREATHITT-CLAY-ELLIOTT-ESTILL-FLEMING-FLOYD-HARLAN-JACKSON-
JOHNSON-KNOTT-KNOX-LAUREL-LEE-LESLIE-LETCHER-MAGOFFIN-MARTIN-
MCCREARY-MENIFEE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-OWSLEY-PERRY-PIKE-POWELL-PULASKI-
ROCKCASTLE-ROWAN-WAYNE-WHITLEY-WOLFE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARBOURVILLE...BEATTYVILLE...BOONEVILLE...
CAMPTON...FLEMINGSBURG...FRENCHBURG...HARLAN...HAZARD...HINDMAN...
HYDEN...INEZ...IRVINE...JACKSON...LONDON...MANCHESTER...MCKEE...
MIDDLESBORO...MONTICELLO...MOREHEAD...MOUNT STERLING...
MOUNT VERNON...OWINGSVILLE...PAINTSVILLE...PIKEVILLE...PINEVILLE...
PRESTONSBURG...SALYERSVILLE...SANDY HOOK...SOMERSET...STANTON...
WEST LIBERTY...WHITESBURG...WHITLEY CITY AND WILLIAMSBURG
544 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A
CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SPC HAS PLACED
AREAS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 80 IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. HPC HAS ALSO PLACED PORTIONS OF
EASTERN KENTUCKY IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. SLOW MOVING
AND TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME ISOLATED
FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS FRIDAY.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY
NIGHT AND AGAIN FROM TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

JM

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 1:33 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
233 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0225 PM     HAIL             FLEMINGSBURG            38.42N 83.74W
05/19/2005  0.75 INCH        FLEMING            KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND IN DOWNTOWN
            FLEMINGSBURG.

&&

ARICHEY

Local storm report, May 19, 3:18 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
418 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 S MANCHESTER          37.11N 83.77W
05/19/2005                   CLAY               KY   PUBLIC

            SEVERAL LARGE...WRIST SIZE LIMBS DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 11.

&&

RAY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 64 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:35 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bath

When: May 19, 4:35 PM EST
Where: Bath County, Salt Lick
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.117, -83.617

Hail, Bath

When: May 19, 4:45 PM EST
Where: Bath County, 3 mi SE of Olympia
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 38.067, -83.667

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kentucky in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Kentucky, May 2005

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: 5451242, 5451243.