Good Thursday everyone. We have a major pattern flip about to take place and it’s one that looks to announce its presence with some strong or severe storms later today. That’s what one would expect when you have a late September air mass sweeping in during the middle of August.
Let’s break it all down:
- Scattered storms will be possible early today with most of the action arriving later this afternoon into tonight. The chance for severe weather will increase during this time.
- Damaging winds and hail are the main players. Any storm getting off on its own would have a chance to produce a tornado. That threat looks a little better just to our north.
- The storm system responsible for the boomers is one you don’t see very often this time of year. Low pressure will work across the Ohio Valley tonight into Friday and drag a strong cold front through the state. That’s when we will open the floodgates to some Canadian air.
- Temps for Friday and Saturday should stay in the mid and upper 70s for most areas. Sunday looks to see upper 70s and low 80s. Our lows Saturday and Sunday will drop into the 50s and some areas may get close to a record.
- The pattern into the first half of next week continues to look pretty good with temps around normal or a tad below for this time of year.
Let’s do a little storm tracking…
Watches
Possible Watches
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Have a great Thursday and take care.
The tornado threat for this evening was already fairly low. Now, the Storm Prediction Center has lowered this tornado threat even more and moved the threat area further north of the Ohio River.
While all t-storms are capable of producing an isolated weak twister, the main threats for this evening’s severe wx outbreak will be destructive winds, lightning, hail, and some flooding.
The tornado threat for this evening was already low.
Now the Storm Prediction Center has lowered the tornado threat even more and moved the threat area further north of the Ohio River.
While all t-storms are capable of producing an isolated weak twister, the main threats for this evening’s severe wx outbreak will be destructive winds, lightning, hail, and perhaps flooding.
Quote “The tornado threat for this evening was already low.
Now the Storm Prediction Center has lowered the tornado threat even more and moved the threat area further north of the Ohio River.”
Music to my ears
well u see now the indy storms opping in tenn, thats the ones BAILEY referred to as being STRONG, the front be moving thru tonite so less of really bad storms.
tx ole BAILEY boy.
It might fizzle out (Hopefully)
It might fizzle out (HOPEFULLY
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What time are the storms expected to move in this afternoon?
the storms in Tenn should steal the moisture for major storm development in NCentral KY, very little action to the north of KY at the moment.
We had a quick but hefty storm earlier. Hail, high winds, and VERY heavy rain here in Corbin. Didn’t last but 10-15 minutes now it’s thundering again. We’ll see what happens now.
Thundered here for over an hour and not even a drop of rain
Very heavy rain here in central Laurel county. Would have to imagine there are some roads that are flooded, especially in town.
Wow, check out that outflow boundary. It’s getting NASTY along that puppy..
So with all the action being down south all day does this mean us in CKy gonna get shut out?
Just like winter. I hoped all year for a snow storm only to be disappointed. Now I get excited about rain, but it all develops east of Hopkinsville, leaving us western Kentuckian high and DRY again.
Pea sized hail in southern lexington
Impressive Light show when that came through in Beaumont
Not much here in southern Richmond as far as wind goes, thankfully. Some brief heavy rain, but by far the worst aspect of the storm was the lightning. Lot of cloud to ground strikes, and the thunder was deep and rolling.
More storms firing off to the west on our border counties. This could be an interesting evening—let’s hope the severe threat doesn’t get out of hand. Lift is very high across central KY at the moment, and there’s ample moisture to go around. Could be lots of heavy rain-making storms.
Nothing to see here…again.
Drove through Lexington and versailles on my way back to Frankfort, lots of rain in lex & Versailles but very little rain in Frankfort! We are still in much better shape than the dry desert west KY!
agree
didnt get a drop today in the Flatwoods/Ashland area, some wind and clouds but that was it,
Nice trend for north Richmond. Most storms lately have been under-performers.