Thunderstorm Wind, Ballard
- When
- June 8, 7:45 AM CST
- Where
- Ballard County, Gage
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.980, -88.880
Downed trees were reported along Highway 286.
Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Kentucky, June 8, 2007
A cold front moved southeast across the Mid-Mississippi Valley during the morning. Short lines of thunderstorms with isolated damaging winds developed in advance of the front.
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
- $106,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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 happened
The episode as NWS PAH wrote it up.
A cold front moved southeast across the Mid-Mississippi Valley during the morning. Short lines of thunderstorms with isolated damaging winds developed in advance of the front.
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 Jun 8, 1:55 AM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:55 AM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 255 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TODAY. BASED ON LATEST RADAR...MAIN AREA OF CONVECTION EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INTO CENTRAL ILLINOIS WILL REACH WEST PORTIONS OF THE PAH FORECAST AREA TOWARD 10Z. WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FA ARE IN TORNADO WATCH 365 UNTIL 12Z. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW CAP ERODING ACROSS THE PAH FA BY 12Z...WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY SOME ISOLATED SHOWERS CURRENTLY TRYING TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP OUT AHEAD OF THE MAIN ACTIVITY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. SPC CONTINUES TO HAVE THE ENTIRE FA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR TODAY. THIS MAIN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY WEAKEN A LITTLE AS IT MOVES EAST THROUGH 12Z...BUT THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD REINTENSIFY THIS MORNING WITH FORECAST LIS ACROSS THE PAH FA OF -3 TO -5. NAM CONTINUES TO BE A LITTLE SLOWER WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE COLD FRONT THAN GFS...WITH THE FRONT STILL ACROSS SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FA BY 00Z SATURDAY. BASED ON SLOWER NAM SOLUTION...LINGERED SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FA INTO THIS EVENING...THEN HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR THE WEEKEND. BOTH NAM AND GFS SHOW PRECIP JUST TO OUR WEST SUNDAY AFTERNOON. CONTINUED WITH DRY FORECAST UNTIL SUNDAY...THEN BACKED OFF SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR JUST THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. FOR TEMPS TODAY...LEANED TOWARD COOLER MET VALUES FOR NORTHWEST HALF OF FA...AND TOWARD WARMER MAV FOR SOUTHEAST HALF. FOR THE REST OF THE NEAR USED MORE OF COMPROMISE OF MAV/MET. IN THE EXTENDED...MADE SOME MINOR TWEAKS BASED ON LATEST MEX AND FOR BLENDING PURPOSES. && .AVIATION... LEADING EDGE OF CONVECTION SHOULD AFFECT KCGI BY 12Z AND KPAH AND KEVV BY 18Z. MOST CEILINGS SHOULD BE MVFR...WITH IFR CONDITIONS WITH CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH FRONT. VFR CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TONIGHT. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...RST AVIATION...KES
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 3:22 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 422 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-090930- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 422 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE QUAD STATE REGION TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THERE ARE ON AND OFF CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THE PROBABILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. RST
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 8, 6:39 AM CST, 1 hour 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
739 AM CDT FRI JUN 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0720 AM TSTM WND DMG 6 NW GALATIA 37.90N 88.69W
06/08/2007 SALINE IL LAW ENFORCEMENT
LARGE TREE DOWN BLOCKING HIGHWAY 34 ALONG FRANKLIN COUNTY
LINE. NEAR THE COMMUNTIY OF WEST END.
&&
SMITTYSpecial weather statement, Jun 8, 7:15 AM CST, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 815 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ILZ077-078-083-INZ081-085-086-KYZ018-081415- EDWARDS-WABASH-WHITE-GIBSON-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-HENDERSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBION...MOUNT CARMEL...CARMI... FORT BRANCH...POSEYVILLE...EVANSVILLE...HENDERSON 815 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ...WIND GUSTS 50 TO 55 MPH OVER SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA THROUGH 900 AM ... AT 810 AM...WIND GUSTS...RANGING FROM 50 TO 55 MPH...WERE NOTED AHEAD OF A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE FROM A LINE FROM ALBION ILLINOIS AND MOUNT VERNON INDIANA...ONWARD TO A HAZELTON...EVANSVILLE INDIANA TO SPOTTSVILLE KENTUCKY LINE BY 840 AM. THESE STRONG WINDS MAY DOWN SOME BRANCHES AND TREES...TOSS AROUND LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS...AND CAUSE DIFFICULTY FOR TRAVELERS. SMITH
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 14 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:42 UTC.
Event by event
5 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, McCracken
- When
- June 8, 8:10 AM CST to 8:15 AM CST
- Where
- McCracken County, Lone Oak to Woodlawn
- Measured
- 74 kt (85 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -88.670
In the community of Hendron, an unoccupied mobile home was rolled over and destroyed. In the same area, a carport was destroyed, and numerous large trees and power lines were blown down. One tree punched a hole in the roof of a mobile home. Other trees were down across roads. The apparent microburst damage was about one-half mile long by 50 yards wide. Spottier damage in the form of isolated downed trees occurred east and west of the microburst. In Lone Oak, a large tree was blown down across a high dollar-value house. The tree came through the roof into the living room. In Woodlawn and Reidland, isolated trees and power lines were down. Tree tops were blown 50 to 75 feet in the Reidland area.
Thunderstorm Wind, Graves
- When
- June 8, 8:35 AM CST
- Where
- Graves County, 2 mi S of Mayfield
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $9,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 36.701, -88.630
Trees and power lines were down.
Lightning, McCracken
- When
- June 8, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- McCracken County, 2 mi E of Lone Oak
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- Fire Department/Rescue
- Coordinates
- 37.030, -88.634
Lightning struck a garage and started a fire that damaged the outside of the building.
Thunderstorm Wind, Calloway
- When
- June 8, 8:54 AM CST to 8:55 AM CST
- Where
- Calloway County, Murray Arpt to 3 mi E of Dexter
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
- Property damage
- $4,000
- Reported by
- AWOS
- Coordinates
- 36.670, -88.370
A wind gust to 60 MPH was measured by an automated observing system at the Murray airport. Numerous trees were blown down along Highway 1346 near Dexter.
Heavy Rain, Hopkins
- When
- June 8, 9:15 AM CST to 9:55 AM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County, Madisonville
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 37.330, -87.500
Minor street flooding was reported in the city.
Thunderstorm Wind, Trigg
- When
- June 8, 9:30 AM CST
- Where
- Trigg County, 2 mi NE of Cadiz
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- Broadcast Media
- Coordinates
- 36.890, -87.794
Trees were reported down off Interstate 24 near the Cadiz exit. One of the trees took down part of a fence, which allowed several cows to escape onto the interstate.
Lightning, Marshall
- When
- June 8, 10:00 AM CST
- Where
- Marshall County, Fairdealing
- Property damage
- $6,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -88.230
Lightning struck a house, starting a fire.
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.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 31709, 31711, 31718, 31714, 31705, 31736, 31735, 31740.