Hail, Daviess
- When
- July 23, 6:09 PM CST
- Where
- Daviess County, 2.82 mi N of (Owb)owensboro Arpt
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 37.791, -87.175
Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 23, 2013
A mesoscale convective system organized over the Lower Ohio Valley along a southeast-moving cold front. Moderately strong northwest winds aloft and seasonably strong instability contributed to the strength of the system.
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
- $110,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Events
- 6
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 mesoscale convective system organized over the Lower Ohio Valley along a southeast-moving cold front. Moderately strong northwest winds aloft and seasonably strong instability contributed to the strength of the system. A gust front along the leading edge of the thunderstorm complex accelerated south and southwestward across the northwest Kentucky counties of Union and Henderson. This gust front produced areas of wind damage in those counties.
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 Jul 23, 5:50 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 5:50 PM CST, 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 650 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 .UPDATE... UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION ONLY. && .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 HIGH SURFACE CAPE JUST TO NORTH OF NORTHEASTERN PTN FA...IS WHERE STORMS ARE FIRING AS COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO THAT VICINITY. NO ENERGY ALOFT THERE...BUT HIGH CAPE THERE EASTWARD WITH INCOMING FRONT RESULTED IN THUNDERSTORM WATCH BOX TO OUR EAST. OUR CHANCE WILL COME IN NEXT FEW HOURS...TO SEE IF MORNING CONVECTIVE CAP ERODES AND ALLOWS DESTABILIZATION OVER WESTERN FA. ALREADY CAPES TO 4000 J/KG WERE COALESCING IN CENTRAL MO...AND THIS MAY BE IN THE OFFING FOR US AS CLOUDS START TO CLEAR. ENERGY ALOFT THAT IS JUST UPSTREAM WILL THEN MOVE IN OVERTOP INCOMING COLD FRONT AND LIKELY RESULT IN ANOTHER WATCH BOX FOR US...AGAIN TO BE MONITORED CLOSELY NEXT COUPLE HOURS. DAMAGING WINDS LOOK TO BE MAIN THREAT ALTHOUGH LARGE HAILERS NOT OUT OF QUESTION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN A POSSIBLE TOO...AND WILL PAY ATTENTION TO OZARKS OF SEMO IN PARTICULAR WHERE 2-3" AVERAGE QPF OCCURRED WITH THIS MORNING'S ROUND OF PCPN. THE AFOREMENTIONED SYSTEM POP CONTINUES IN W-NWLY FLOW FOR US FROM AFTERNOON/EVENING INTO OVERNIGHT HOURS/WITH SOME LINGER EARLY WED MORNING AS 2NDARY ENERGY MOVES OVER US. POPS END WITH DRIER AND COOLER AIR WORKING THRU THE COLUMN WED PM...AND CARRIES ON THRU THE END OF THE SHORT TERM PERIOD (THUR NIGHT). HIGH TEMP/HIGH HUMIDITY ENVIRON TODAY TO THEN BE REPLACED WITH COMFORTING 5-10F COOLOFF IN BOTH TEMP/TD NEXT COUPLE DAYS. .LONG TERM...(FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 100 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 MODELS REMAIN IN GOOD TO FAIR AGREEMENT IN THE EXTENDED. GOOD EARLY ON AND FAIR NEXT WEEK WITH ONLY WEAK SIGNALS. AS PREVIOUSLY STATED NOT MUCH RECOVERY AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM SLATED FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. THE 00Z TUE ECMWF AND THE 12Z UKMET AND 06Z TUE DGEX CONTINUES TO BRING AN MCS TYPE SYSTEM INTO THE AREA EARLY SATURDAY AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE LATEST 12Z TUE GFS HAS LOST THIS FEATURE AND HOLDS ONTO THE FRONT ONLY...WITH VERY LIMITED PRECIP AMOUNTS. WILL HOLD ONTO THE MCS SYSTEM FOR NOW BUT WILL MONITOR POSSIBLE ADJUSTMENTS. EITHER WAY THE NEXT SYSTEM IS NOW BECOMING BETTER DEFINED AS A SATURDAY EVENT...POSSIBLY STARTING EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. WILL SEE WHAT THE EXTENDED INIT YIELDS AND TRY TO FINE TUNE IT AFTER THAT. OTHERWISE COOLER. THE MODELS SHOW ANOTHER SYSTEM RIDING IN ON THE NW FLOW ALOFT ABOUT NEXT TUESDAY WILL KEEP LOW CHCS AT BEST WITH THIS SYSTEM. OTHERWISE EXPECT COOLER AND DRIER CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL AFTER TODAY. TEMPS WILL WARM A BIT SATURDAY THEN COOL BACK DOWN AFTER THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. && .AVIATION... ISSUED AT 650 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 VFR/MVFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OUTSIDE TSTM ACTIVITY THROUGH THE 00Z TAF PERIOD. PCPN IS POSSIBLE IN THE WRN HALF OF THE REGION IN THE LATE EVENING AS A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS/TSTMS MIGHT SWEEP ACROSS THE KCGI AND KPAH TERMINALS. A MVFR CIG IS POSSIBLE FOR A FEW HOURS NEAR SUNRISE THERE ALSO. A WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTH/NNE GENERALLY AOB 10 KNOTS IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IL...NONE. MO...NONE. IN...NONE. KY...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 3:49 AM CST, 14 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 449 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-241000- 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- 449 AM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 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...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD SHOULD A SEVERE STORM OCCUR...BUT LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE GIVEN THE VERY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING STORMS THAT TRAIN OVER THE SAME AREAS WILL ALSO POSE THE RISK FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. PEAK HEAT INDEX READINGS AROUND 100 TO 105 ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE REFER TO THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MORE DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LINGERS WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAINLY OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTH OF THE SHAWNEE HILLS IN FAR SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SMALL CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST OVER PORTIONS OF THE REGION FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SO STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AND UPDATES. RJP
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:33 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 433 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 INZ082-087-232215- PIKE IN-WARRICK IN- 433 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN WARRICK AND SOUTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 515 PM CDT... AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WINSLOW TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WINSLOW...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. WIND GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... FOLSOMVILLE AND SPURGEON. TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 3:45 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 445 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 INZ088-232230- SPENCER IN- 445 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 530 PM CDT... AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF DALE...OR 20 MILES EAST OF OAKLAND CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS 40 TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... DALE...SANTA CLAUS...GRANDVIEW...GENTRYVILLE AND CHRISNEY.
Local storm report, Jul 23, 4:34 PM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
534 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0505 PM TSTM WND DMG GENTRYVILLE 38.11N 87.03W
07/23/2013 SPENCER IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN IN GENTRYVILLE.
&&
CTNSpecial weather statement, Jul 23, 5:22 PM CST, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 622 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 MOZ076-086-087-100-107>110-240130- PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER-RIPLEY-BUTLER- STODDARD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PERRYVILLE...MARBLE HILL... CAPE GIRARDEAU...PIEDMONT...VAN BUREN...DONIPHAN...POPLAR BLUFF... BLOOMFIELD 622 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 STRONG TO ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AT 620 PM. THE STORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING SHOULD SPREAD INTO PORTIONS OF WAYNE AND PERHAPS BOLLINGER COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF STRONG WIND GUSTS...MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY DRIFT SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 TO 20 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:40 PM CST, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 640 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 ILZ083-087-INZ085>088-KYZ014-015-018>020-240145- WHITE-GALLATIN-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-WARRICK-SPENCER-UNION KY-WEBSTER- HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CARMI...SHAWNEETOWN...POSEYVILLE... EVANSVILLE...BOONVILLE...ROCKPORT...MORGANFIELD...DIXON... HENDERSON...OWENSBORO...CALHOUN 640 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013 AT 635 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF MOUNT VERNON INDIANA TO THE EVANSVILLE AREA...IN PARTICULAR THE SOUTHWEST SIDE...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT OF THE ACTIVITY WAS SOUTHEAST 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL SPREAD INTO NORTHWEST KENTUCKY THROUGH 800 PM. PEA SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN FROM THE WEST SIDE OF EVANSVILLE. THE STRONGER STORMS IN THE LINE WILL BE CAPABLE OF UP TO DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS 30 TO 45 MPH. HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE STANDING WATER ACROSS ROADS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. THE STORMS OVER SOUTHERN VANDERBURGH COUNTY ARE HEADED TOWARD HENDERSON.
Local storm report, Jul 23, 5:56 PM CST, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
656 PM CDT TUE JUL 23 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0655 PM HAIL 1 SW ROCKPORT 37.87N 87.06W
07/23/2013 M0.88 INCH SPENCER IN TRAINED SPOTTER
PEA TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
&&
SMITTYThe radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:07 UTC.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Henderson
- When
- July 23, 6:25 PM CST to 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Henderson County, Corydon
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 37.730, -87.700
Several trees were reported down in the community of Corydon. A large tree and power lines were down in the community of Smith Mills.
Hail, McLean
- When
- July 23, 7:13 PM CST
- Where
- McLean County, Beech Grove
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 37.620, -87.400
Funnel Cloud, Hopkins
- When
- July 23, 7:19 PM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County, 3 mi N of Madisonville
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 37.373, -87.500
A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud with broad, weak rotation.
Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- July 23, 7:25 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, 0.91 mi SE of Cullen
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 37.572, -87.867
Trees were down along Highway 141.
Thunderstorm Wind, Union
- When
- July 23, 7:25 PM CST to 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Union County, 3 mi N of Morganfield to 10 mi SW of Morganfield
- Measured
- 74 kt (85 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NWS Storm Survey
- Coordinates
- 37.723, -87.920
Scattered wind damage extended from about three miles north of Morganfield to Morganfield, and then extended southwest to about ten miles southwest of Morganfield around Kentucky Highway 109. Dozens of trees were uprooted. Trees and power lines were blown down throughout the east side of Morganfield. Several barns and small sheds were damaged by winds estimated up to 85 mph. Large sections of roofing were blown off at least a couple barns. Numerous areas of corn were blown down. The majority of the damage was from Morganfield west and southwest.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Hail in Nebraska, July 23, 2013
More
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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: 459398, 459403, 459400, 459405, 459404, 459407.