Thunderstorm Wind, Clay
- When
- May 19, 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Clay County, 3 mi S of Manchester
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -83.750
Several large limbs blown down near Highway 11.
Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 19, 2005
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 May 19, 10:37 AM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 10:37 AM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1137 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 .UPDATE... DISCUSSION... CLOUD COVER SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE LATEST RUC ANALYSIS CONTINUES TO SHOW MID-LEVEL S/W ENERGY WILL CROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. BOUNDARY LAYER FORCING OBSERVED TO BE VERY WEAK SOUTH OF THE WARM FRONTAL BDRY THAT IS CURRENTLY POSITIONED ACROSS THE NORTHERN PART OF THE FA. BDRY LAYER FORCING INCREASES SOMEWHAT AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...THUS KEEPING THE INCREASED THREAT OF T-STORM POTENTIAL. HAVE MADE SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO TEMP AND DEW POINTS ACROSS THE REGION...OTHERWISE NO CHANGES WARRANTED. UPDATED ZONES ALREADY OUT. && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 536 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005) DISCUSSION... LATEST IR SHOT SHOWS PATCHES OF MID AND HIGH CLOUDS PASSING OVER THE AREA. 9Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS A WARM FRONT LAYING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE CWA. A COLD FRONT IS LOCATED ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST AND THE SFC LOW IS IN MINNESOTA. GFS AND NAM BOTH INITIALIZED WELL AND ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT FOR THE SHORT TERM. MAIN DIFFERENCES ARE IN THE STRENGTH AND TRACK OF THE UPPER LOW. GFS HAS SOME FEEDBACK ISSUES...SO MOSTLY LEANED TOWARDS THE NAM FOR THE NEAR TERM. SLIGHTLY UNDERCUT POPS TODAY AS THE WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH. THIS WILL ALLOW AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE...AS SOUTHERLY FLOW RETURNS. EXPECT ENOUGH SUNSHINE TODAY TO HELP DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DEVELOP...AS A FEW SHORTWAVES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. A MCS MOVING OUT OF ILLINOIS WILL HELP PUSH THE FRONT SOUTHWARD TONIGHT...COMBINED WITH THE UPPER TROF MOVING INTO THE AREA...LEFT CATEGORICAL POPS IN FOR TONIGHT. SPC HAS PLACED THE COUNTIES NORTH OF HIGHWAY 80 IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR DAY 1. HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE THREATS. LOOKING AT THE SOUNDINGS...BEST CHANCE OF DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE IN ANY BOW ECHOS THAT DEVELOP. SEE SPC/S DAY 1 DISCUSSION FOR MORE DETAIL. WILL ALSO MENTION THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THE HWO. POPS WILL COME TO AN END FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON FRIDAY..AS THE UPPER TROF MOVES OUT THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO NEAR NORMAL TOMORROW. DRY CONDITIONS RETURN FRIDAY NIGHT...AS HIGH PRESSURE SETTLES INTO THE REGION. WITH LINGERING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...LIGHT WINDS AND DECREASING CLOUDS...ADDED PATCHY FOG TO THE FORECAST FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. DID NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. PREVIOUS TEMPERATURE GRIDS WERE IN GREAT SHAPE. GENERALLY ONLY MADE A FEW TWEAKS IN THE GRIDS. FOR TODAY...WITH BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS AND THE ONSET OF PRECIP IN THE AFTERNOON LEANED TOWARDS THE WARMER FWC AND MAV NUMBERS. MAV NUMBERS LOOKED FOR THE REST OF THE NEAR TERM...SO GENERALLY STAYED CLOSE. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .ST...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:44 AM EST, 10 hours 1 minute 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, 1 hour 12 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.
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ARICHEYThe radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:42 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kentucky, May 19, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Kentucky, May 19 to 20, 2005
- Lightning Strikes in Indiana, May 19, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 19 to 20, 2005
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Illinois, May 19, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 19, 2005
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 19, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Indiana, May 19, 2005
- Hail in Washington, May 19, 2005
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, May 19, 2005
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 19, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 19, 2005
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings 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: 5451241.