Storm reports for June 21, 2019

A line of severe storms moved across southeast Missouri and the lower Ohio Valley in the afternoon, with widespread wind damage in western Kentucky.¹ In Paducah, Kentucky, wind brought down about 175 feet of a 400-foot broadcast tower and blew bricks off a historic downtown building.¹ In Jackson, Missouri, wind stripped bricks from an apartment building, and in Cape Girardeau it blew out windows at a store and caused roof and shingle damage.² At Kentucky Dam Village, an EF1 tornado and a microburst beside it both reached about 110 mph, and NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $500,000 in damage for the tornado.^3,4 Earlier, a hailstone 3.4 inches across was photographed at Barlow in Ballard County, Kentucky.⁵

The storms crossed Middle Tennessee between 6 and 10 p.m. CDT, in what NWS Nashville called the area's most widespread damaging wind event in at least 15 years.⁶ In Nashville, an EF0 tornado in Antioch caused significant roof and siding damage to many homes.⁶ In northern Macon County, a downburst about 8 miles long and 1.5 miles wide, with winds near 85 mph, damaged or destroyed numerous barns.⁶

In western Kansas, a storm near Sharon Springs destroyed a metal building, with a measured gust of 91 knots (105 mph).⁷ Trees toppled by the wind killed three people: a boat driver on the Current River in Missouri, a driver near Ullin, Illinois, and a driver near Scottsville, Kentucky.^8,9,10