A stationary front and surface low, with some strong upper level support, set off some severe thunderstorms over south central Kentucky.
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The episode as NWS LMK wrote it up.
A stationary front and surface low, with some strong upper level support, set off some severe thunderstorms over south central Kentucky.
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:35 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and blew the shingles off barns and houses. A carport was also blown off the side of a house.
The time of occurrence is estimated; the fire department arrived on the scene approximately 630 PM. Lightning struck several hundred yards from three homes near the 5500 block of Lebanon Road. The lightning followed an underground phone line into the homes, carving a trench as it traveled through the ground, and blowing out large sections of driveway. It also damaged a buried water line. The homes themselves suffered only minor, if any, damage, and there were no injuries.
Three houses were damaged in the 800 block of West Cedar. The roof was blown off one, while the other two sustained shingle damage. Several businesses had minor damage in the 500 block of West Madison, and an old warehouse building was destroyed in the 10000 block of West Cedar.
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