Good Thursday to one and all. We continue to watch for the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms to push across the state. Today’s action may be more widespread than what we’ve had over the past few days. These storms can also cause additional flash flooding issues for some areas.
Here’s a breakdown of how the day may play out:
- Early morning severe weather may be ongoing across parts of northern and eastern Kentucky. Damaging winds will be the primary threat. There will be a VERY sharp cutoff on the storm line in central Kentucky.
- Heat and humidity build in through the afternoon. Temperatures may surge into the low 90s under partly sunny skies.
- A line of strong and severe thunderstorms will develop this afternoon across northern Kentucky and drop toward the south and southeast.
- Damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes will be possible. Widespread damaging winds are possible in this setup.
- Any storm that goes up out there till be able to produce a ton of rain that can lead to additional flash flooding.
Your daily dose of severe weather trackers…
Today’s risk area
Heat builds in this weekend with temps in the 90s and very humid weather and scattered showers and thunderstorms. Those rounds of storms continue into next week as temps come back closer to normal.
Have a great day and take care.
Meanwhile in China, real severe weather…
http://www.yahoo.com/news/china-state-media-51-killed-tornado-eastern-province-124229094.html?ref=gs
Yes, our country has more than anywhere else but look far back you have to go to find one of our tornados with that level of death.
Very heavy rain and strong winds in Valley Station…large limb next door just fell across the road…looks like I will have to get my chainsaw out after all. Winds did not seem to reach severe criteria though, perhaps up to 45 mph. But the heavy rain had been ongoing, so the weight of the wet foliage coupled with those winds likely felled the limb.
Another surge of high wind and rain with lots of lightning along with eerily dark skies. I see a limb hanging onto my phone line right now…better try and retrieve it
Bardstown-right in the city. Had a good garden going this year. Last year this time was suckin’ a biggin’ because of heat…..Thank You, Mama Nature, for your 60-70+mph winds & torrential rain an hour ago. My onions uprooted & lying flat against the ground, my tomato cages severing the plants where they fell on them, and my pepper plants swimming in mud THANKS YOU!
The rain with the second line of storms from New Albany, IN through Louisville had torrential rain with them. I cannot remember the last time I drove in rain like this. I was doing 25 mph on I-64/I-65 finally driving out of it near the airport. It then caught me in Fern Creek on the Snyder and again at my house in Spencer County, KY.