Good Monday evening, gang. Our severe weather outbreak is well underway with a squall line of thunderstorms racing across western Kentucky. Damaging winds have already been observed around the Paducah area and this line continues to roll eastward.
A TORNADO WATCH is now out for areas along and west of Interstate 65 until 1am EDT. I have you all set to track the severe weather as it rolls to the east…
Today’s risk area
Current watches
Stay safe and take care.
Not liking the looks of this one little bit.I don’t know but I feel a lot more concerned than average about the set up.Maybe its because its so out of character for October.
Another thing is seeing TWC saying they are preempting regular programing to track the next couple of days with live programing didn’t calm me for sure.
It reached 82 on the thermometer here today and the air felt almost hot.Even now its still 78.Not a good thing.Going to be a busy couple of days for you Chris.Thanks in advance for all the time you will be putting into the updates.
I Also have an uneasy feeling about this line of storms. I pray it weakens before it gets here. Stay safe everyone.
It is getting dark. Pray these storms weaken before they get here!
That is an impressive line moving through West-Central Kentucky. This is the middle of our “secondary” severe weather season in Kentucky. The 80 degree weather and 60 plus dewpoints are sure fueling these storms.
Along with the crazy wind energy this system has, 4,000 feet up in the atmosphere winds are screaming in excess of 60-70 mph. Will not take much for a storm to tap into that wind field energy and send it to the surface.
A few minutes ago, the power flickered; hope that will be the worst of things. The line is just about on Nashville, fair amount of lightning, had a gust to perhaps to 30 mph. My in-laws in Bowling Green report similar conditions.
At least the SPC now has the tornado probability at only 2% to 5%. But as has been mentioned, strong damaging winds and some flooding are still threats.
should start weakening
Nothing I am seeing forecast is saying they will weaken but I sure hope you are right.
Rolo, I would agree with the tornado threat weakening however the wind energy with this system is really impressive so damaging winds in my opinion is still a big concern.
The SPC had a discussion (1881) a couple of hours ago about the tornado threat increasing in the area. The radar doesn’t agree yet.
I-65 and points west looks to be a training effect possibly developing be interesting to see in the next few hours how far of a eastern progression this line makes.
Yes, I was thinking the same, as they were saying it was moving NE/E, but IMO, looked like it was going straight due North…that is until about 30 min’s ago it hit Bardstown….the winds were absolutely horrid, sustained extremely hard there for about 6-10 min’s..I could see things blowing down the street and things (?) were hitting the house….now we’ve got torrential rains, still breezy. I started out to look, but noticed my weird neighbor was already out there w/ his flashlight….I don’t want to be featured in a true-crime novel starting with, “It was a dark & stormy night as she walked alone through her seemingly docile front yard…..”