Thunderstorm Wind, Logan
- When
- November 14, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, Olmstead
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.750, -87.020
Power lines were downed on top of a house.
Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, November 14, 2007
Another fast moving cold front with strong upper level support brought severe thunderstorms to parts of south central Kentucky.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 LMK wrote it up.
Another fast moving cold front with strong upper level support brought severe thunderstorms to parts of south central Kentucky.
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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 14, 11:15 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 11:15 AM CST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1215 PM EST WED NOV 14 2007 .MORNING UPDATE... AT NOON THE COLD FRONT LAY JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER. MADE FEW CHANGES TO THE FORECAST EARLIER THIS MORNING. EXPECT INCREASING COVERAGE OF SHOWERS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A BARDSTOWN TO LEXINGTON LINE. WEAK SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY MAY ALLOW SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. EVENING TEMPERATURES WILL DROP OFF RAPIDLY NORTHWEST OF THE OHIO RIVER...BUT STAY RELATIVELY MILD THROUGH THE EVENING FARTHER SOUTHEAST. .SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY)... FOG HAS NOT BEEN THAT MUCH OF A PROBLEM THIS MORNING AS SOUTHERLY WINDS HAVE INCREASED IN RESPONSE TO AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THIS FRONT CURRENTLY (07Z) LOCATED FROM WISCONSIN TO KANSAS WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SHOWERS AND EVEN A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE BEST INSTABILITY WILL BE ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON SO WE WILL CONFINE THUNDER TO THAT AREA. THIS IS ALSO THE AREA WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD OCCUR. ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND IN KENTUCKY ALONG THE OHIO RIVE AMOUNTS WILL BE LESS. COLD AIR WILL ADVECT INTO THE REGION TONIGHT AND THURSDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE DROPS INTO THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PLAINS. SOME STRATO-CU WILL COME IN WITH THE COLD AIR AND COVER MOST OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SKIES WILL CLEAR THURSDAY NIGHT WHICH WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE 20S FRIDAY MORNING. HIGHS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL WITH READINGS IN THE UPPER 40S AND LOWER 50S. LONG TERM (SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY):... SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: THE PICTURE STARTS TO BECOME MORE FUZZY AGAIN. LIKE YESTERDAY...THERE CONTINUES TO BE SIGNIFICANT MODEL TO MODEL AND RUN TO RUN DIFFERENCES IN TIMING...TRACK AND STRENGTH OF A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES THAT COULD IMPACT OUR REGION. THIS LACK OF CONTINUITY COUPLED WITH THE LACK OF ANY DEFINITIVE HELP FROM TELECONNECTIONS LIKE THE AOA AND PNA...MAKE THIS A FORECAST IS ISSUED WITH LOW CONFIDENCE. WE MORE OR LESS TRIED TO START WITH THE HPC FCST TRENDS AND THEN MADE SOME SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS FOR CONSISTENCY WITH SURROUNDING FAS. CURRENT INDICATIONS ARE THAT ONE SHORT WAVE WILL SWING BY TO OUR NORTH ON SATURDAY AND PUSH A COLD FRONT INTO THE REGION THAT SLOWS AS A WAVE DEVELOPS ON THIS FRONT TO OUR SOUTH AND WE STAND A CHANCE OF SOME FRONTAL PCPN DURING SATURDAY NIGHT FOLLOWED BY SOME COLD OVERRUNNING PCPN ON SUNDAY INTO DAYTIME ON MONDAY. SHOULD THIS SCENARIO MATERIALIZE...WE WILL HAVE MORE SEASONABLY COLD READINGS FOR THE REST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD EXCEPT FOR FINALLY WARMING A BIT ON TUESDAY. --21 AVIATION (18Z TAFS)... SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL DEVELOP NEAR OR SOUTHEAST OF SDF BY 19 TO 21Z...THEN MOVE SOUTH BY 23Z. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE LIKELY AT LEX AND ESPECIALLY BWG LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EXPECT MVFR CIGS AT SDF AND LEX THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON...WITH CIGS LOWERING TO 1K FEET IN ANY SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY. VFR CIGS AT BWG WILL DECREASE TO MVFR IN SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY BY LATE AFTERNOON. THEY WILL STAY MVFR AT BWG THROUGH 04Z OR SO. BY 00Z AT SDF AND LEX...WINDS WILL SWITCH TO THE NORTHWEST AND MUCH DRIER AIR WILL ARRIVE. CIGS SHOULD RISE TO VFR AFTER THIS TIME. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ALL NIGHT AT 10 TO 15 MPH...WITH GUSTS INCREASING TO 25 MPH BY 18Z THURSDAY. && LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. SHORT TERM...JSD LONG TERM....JM AVIATION...JSD
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 14, 10:29 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1129 AM EST WED NOV 14 2007 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023-025-029>040-042-043-151630- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN- CRAWFORD IN-PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY- MEADE 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-BOURBON KY-NICHOLAS KY- 1129 AM EST WED NOV 14 2007 /1029 AM CST WED NOV 14 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. KYZ024-026>028-041-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-151630- BRECKINRIDGE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-FAYETTE 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- 1129 AM EST WED NOV 14 2007 /1029 AM CST WED NOV 14 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 14, 12:42 PM CST, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 142 PM EST WED NOV 14 2007 KYZ070-141930- LOGAN- 1242 PM CST WED NOV 14 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY... AT 1234 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR PEMBROKE...OR 8 MILES WEST OF ELKTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. CONTINUOUS DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE...SMALL PEA OR MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 45 TO 50 MPH... ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELLVILLE BY 105 PM CST. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO... WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE ON THE INTERNET...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MJ
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Logan
- When
- November 14, 1:05 PM CST to 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, Russellville to 2 mi S of Russellville
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -86.880
Penny to nickel size hail fell in and near Russellville. Nickel size hail covered the ground to a depth of two inches in some spots.
Thunderstorm Wind, Logan
- When
- November 14, 1:05 PM CST to 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Logan County, Russellville to 2 mi S of Russellville
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -86.880
Widespread thunderstorm wind damage occurred near and south of Russellville. Most of the damage was found over a half mile long area centered along Highway 431. A roof was partially removed from a barn. Top sections of some silos were ripped off. Several large trees were uprooted. A few street lamps were toppled.
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.
- 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.
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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: 60187, 60186, 60188.