Good Thursday, everyone. The stormy pattern we are in is pretty incredible. Rounds of strong and severe thunderstorms have been rolling across the region and that’s a trend that continues today. The severe weather threat may actually increase later today into tonight.
Damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes will be possible with any storm that blows up across our region. There is also the potential for a squall line of storms to race in tonight as a cold front moves through. That could increase the severe threat if that materializes.
As you know, our ground is waterlogged and can’t hold any more rain. So, it won’t take much to cause additional high water issues and that’s a possibility with these storms.
How about some good news? Temps today will feel a lot like summer with some low 80s showing up. Some more good news… dry weather moves in late Friday and carries us into the weekend.
Now back to the reality of the day. Your storm trackers…
Today’s risk area
Current watches
Possible watch areas 
Have a great day and take care.
Confirmed by CB: Lexington now stands at its 5th wettest April on record and it’s only from the first 8 days of the month with 7.51″ of rain. With more rain today, and more next week, I could see us breaking the top wettest April. We only need 5.19″ to break the top in 2011 but 1.79″ to be second.
I would like to revisit my comment from a few days ago regarding the severe weather for this week. Especially the large hail! It was in abundance in Northern Kentucky yesterday…
Lightning strike knocks out power in my part of Valley Station in Prairie Village for almost an hour. Traffic lights were affected. Got gas for my generator, then had cords ready for plugging in and the electric was back online again. Figures. It may come in handy later today.
0.86″ with two rounds of storms at my house. Monthly total now stands at 9.10″.
A pretty huge chunk of real estate was affected in Valley Station with power being out.
88 in Louisa!? Holy Cow.
Winds are really starting to gust big time around the commonwealth and these are non-thunderstorm winds. Oldham County has recorded a non thunderstorm wind gust of 43 mph.
The tornado in Illinois had to be EF3 or greater.
My money would be on strong EF4 or EF5. It’s so sad and unfair when they hit populated areas like that!