Good Tuesday, everybody. We have a very busy severe weather setup taking shape through Wednesday. Rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms are going to cause issues across Kentucky. It’s definitely a day to stay up to date on the changing weather situation.
Our day starts with a warm front lifting through with the potential for strong storms. Hail and high winds will be possible with this first round.
Warm, moist and unstable air then settles in and this is when things get interesting. Severe weather will rapidly increase to our west by this evening and roll eastward from there. Damaging winds, large hail and a few tornadoes will be possible. Here’s the latest from the Storm Prediction Center for today…
The severe weather threat then focuses farther east tonight and early Wednesday. There is never a good time for severe weather, but overnight events are the absolute worst because people are sleeping and not paying as much attention.
Here’s the Wednesday severe weather outlook from the SPC…
It may also be a good time to hit the follow button on my @kentuckyweather twitter account. I will be tweeting warnings and the latest information. It’s also a WKYT First Alert Severe Weather Day, so be sure to tune in for live coverage.
As always, the blog is your online weather source…
Today’s risk area
I will update as possible. Have a great day and take care.
Looks like the next couple of days will be fun to track!
Well I guess I can get my kerosene lamp and candles ready for tonight. Here in Southern Ohio it’s like baseball. 3 strikes and you are out.
Thunder getting started here early this morning.
The low pressure is currently over southwest Iowa and moving east – northeast toward southern Wisconsin. This mornings rain is due to a warm front just to our south, which is moving slowly north as the low pressure is developing to our west. The low pressure does not develop a tight pressure gradient till it reaches well into Ontario, Canada and combines with a strong jet off the Atlantic. I don’t understand why severe thunderstorms with lots of wind is predicted for our area ? I’am guessing just a precaution so we will be prepared. Have a nice day
The rest of us will have our weather radios ready and tune in to our favorite media sources for further updates just in case there is an impending overnight severe weather event. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Not much change in the Storm Prediction Center’s most recent update about 30 minutes ago. Let’s hope the tornado threat – which includes isolated chances of stronger tornadoes in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois – will lesson as the system goes east but everybody still needs to have their shelter plans in place and their indoor weather alert radios (and/or other alert systems) ready.
We’re upon the fifth anniversary of the Feb 29 2012 tornado outbreak. While there were smaller twisters near places like West Liberty KY (two days before their much worse March 2 event) and just south of Elizabethtown KY, this outbreak may be most notable for the EF4 that struck Harrisburg IL which is just north of Paducah KY. Indeed, Harrisburg is under the jurisdiction of NWS Paducah:
http://www.weather.gov/pah/HarrisburgEF4TornadoFeb292012
Chris Bailey mentioned the perils of nighttime tornadoes. A big point with the Harrisburg IL twister is that it struck in darkness at about 5am when many victims were perhaps asleep. The lack of daytime heating is at times little problem for at least limited nighttime outbreaks. Back in June 1984, Barneveld Wisconsin was leveled by an F5 (today an EF5) despite being about 3am. Again, have your night time plans in place!!
#BringIt
I forget, who does the weather on here? Chris or random people?
More Thunder and Lightning in my back yard right now than we had the ENTIRE year last year. Last year was so thunder and lightning free it was ridiculous.
If it storms in February its cold in April so expect 3 cold days then!