A frontal boundary and an upper level impulse acted together to produce some much needed rain over central Kentucky. However, it also produced some severe thunderstorms that caused structural damage over south central Kentucky.
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The episode as NWS LMK wrote it up.
A frontal boundary and an upper level impulse acted together to produce some much needed rain over central Kentucky. However, it also produced some severe thunderstorms that caused structural damage over south central Kentucky.
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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 12:02 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 202 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2007 .AVIATION (18Z TAFS)... LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO TRACK NORTHEAST THROUGH THE NORTHERN HALF OF LMK FORECAST AREA. MAIN ISSUE WITH THIS AREA IS REDUCED VSBSY - 2SM BEING THE COMMON REDUCTION FM FTK TO SDF AND LOU...WITH CIGS DOWN TO 020 AS WELL. ANOTHER AREA SHOULD MOVE INTO SDF BETWEEN 19 AND 20Z. OF GREATER CONCERN IS THE AREA TO SOUTH OF THE LARGE PRECIPITATION SWATH...WHERE THINNING/CLEARING CLOUDS HAVE ALLOWED DESTABILIZATION TO BEGIN. TSRA ALONG AND SOUTH OF TN BORDER AREA STARTING TO DEVELOP SINCE 17Z. THESE SHOULD EXPAND AND MOVE INVOF BWG BY 23Z...WITH WIND AND HAIL MORE OF A THREAT THAN FARTHER N. OTHER THAN SOME DEVELOPING CU...LEX SHOULD BE FAIRLY QUIET THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT THE LINE OF STORMS DEVELOPING SOUTH OF BWG IS EXPECTED TO MOVE E THIS EVENING AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LEX OVERNIGHT. JBS && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS... .UPDATED 1430Z... PERSISTENT CONVECTION ON INDIANA SIDE OF THE OHIO RIVER AND REDEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL KEEP PREVENT MUCH WARM-UP OVER THE NORTHERN PART OF FORECAST AREA...SO HAVE EDGED TEMPERATURES DOWN A BIT...ALONG WITH INCREASING POPS. UNLESS CLOUDS START TO ERODE FROM THE SOUTH ALLOWING AIRMASS TO DESTABILIZE MORE...STORMS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AND BE A WELCOME RELIEF TO THIRSTY VEGETATION. JBS .SHORT TERM (TODAY AND TONIGHT)... 06Z INFRARED SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATE SOME COOLING TOPS ASSOCIATED WITH CONVECTION MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY FORECAST AREA. THERE IS NOT MUCH SUPPORT TO KEEP THE CONVECTION GOING SO WE EXPECT THESE STORMS TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SHORT TERM MODELS INCLUDING THE LOCALLY RUN WRF INDICATE INCREASED CONVECTION AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE GREATEST THREAT WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. WE WILL HOLD POPS IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY TODAY BUT WILL INCREASE POPS TO 40% OVER THE WEST... CLOSER TO THE UPPER LEVEL LOW CENTERED NEAR STL. WITH THE EXPECTED CLOUD COVER AND PRECIPITATION WE WILL HOLD AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S WITH THE HIGHEST READINGS EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD GRADUALLY END TONIGHT AS WARMER MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES BEGIN TO WORK IN FROM THE EAST. --JA .IN THE EXTENDED (MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)... THE WEATHER REGIME IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO PERIODS. HOT AND HUMID MONDAY THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY...TRANSITIONING ON THURSDAY TO A COOLER AND LESS HUMID START TO NEXT WEEKEND. MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THE WEAK UPPER TROUGH ACROSS THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FORECAST FOR SUNDAY WILL ESSENTIALLY DISAPPEAR AS STRONG RIDGING WILL BEGIN TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY IN RESPONSE TO A TROUGH MOVING ACROSS THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON THIS EASTERN RIDGE WILL STRENGTHEN EVEN FARTHER...BECOMING CENTERED OVER THE MID ATLANTIC STATES AND THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. BROAD SOUTHERLY FLOW FROM THE GULF WILL OVERSPREAD ALL OF THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY AND BRING DEWPOINTS INTO THE MID TO UPPER 60S TO MUCH OF KENTUCKY AND INDIANA. NIGHTS WILL BECOME MUGGY AND LOWS MAY STAY AT OR ABOVE 70 THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD. WILL CONTINUE ONGOING CHANCE FOR SCATTERED POP-UP THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW A LACK OF AN INHIBITING CAP...SOME CAPE...AND BASICALLY A MOIST ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE DURING THE AFTERNOON. SHOULD STORMS DEVELOP...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES OF 1.75 INCHES AND THE EXPECTED SLOW MOVEMENT OF ANY CELLS MAY BRING ISOLATED HEAVY RAINS. EXPECT THAT TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WILL HAVE A DIMINISHED THREAT FOR STORMS DUE TO PROXIMITY OF STRENGTHENING RIDGE OVERHEAD. ALTHOUGH AFTERNOON HIGHS SHOULD REACH THE LOWER 90S MONDAY AND TUESDAY...RECENT SPOTTY RAINS AND OUR HUMID AIRMASS SHOULD PREVENT HIGH TEMPERATURES FROM GETTING OUT OF HAND. THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY... BEGINNING LATE WEDNESDAY...UPPER PATTERN WILL CHANGE AS AN OMEGA BLOCK BEGINS TO FORM WITH RIDGING CENTERED ACROSS THE CANADIAN FRONT RANGE. BOTH THE ECMWF AND THE GFS ENSEMBLES AGREE WELL WITH THIS. WITH THIS DEVELOPING BLOCK...DOWNSTREAM TROUGHING IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES. COOLER...LESS HUMID AIR WILL PUSH TOWARDS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. ALTHOUGH TRYING TO TIME A COLD FRONT IS TRICKY THIS FAR OFF...AS OF NOW HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST WILL PUSH THE FRONT THROUGH OUR AREA BY FRIDAY. PERHAPS THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN THIS WEEK WILL ARRIVE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. WILL CONTINUE ONGOING FORECAST OF 40 POPS THURSDAY...DECREASING BY FRIDAY MORNING. BY EARLY SATURDAY THE COLD FRONT SHOULD LIE TO OUR SOUTH ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. HIGH PRESSURE IN THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES WILL SWITCH OUR WINDS TO THE NORTH. JSD .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1228 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2007 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-242000- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN- CRAWFORD IN-PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY- BRECKINRIDGE KY-MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY- JEFFERSON KY-OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY- SCOTT KY-HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY- FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY-NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY- MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY-LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY- GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY-EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY- TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY-WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY- ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY-ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY- CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- 1228 PM EDT (1128 AM CDT) SUN JUN 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED... SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH...ALONG WITH ISOLATED WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THE STRONGEST STORMS WOULD BE ALONG THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE REDUCED VISIBILITY IN BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER DOWNPOURS. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO DECREASE TONIGHT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS A COOL FRONT APPROACHES AND MOVES THROUGH THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. THOSE STORMS SHOULD BE STRONGEST AND MOST WIDESPREAD LATE THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. JA/JSD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
853 AM EDT SUN JUN 24 2007
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0700 PM TSTM WND DMG BARDSTOWN 37.81N 85.46W
06/23/2007 NELSON KY TRAINED SPOTTER
TWO TREES DOWN.
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MRCThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
The top floor of a two story business building on Main Street was blown 75 to 100 yards from the base of the building. The damaged section was of wood frame and sheet metal construction. The intact lower floor was brick construction.
Trees and power lines were downed.
Lightning destroyed a small outbuilding.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, June 2007
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: 29650, 29627, 29668, 29639.