Good Thursday to one and all. A powerful cold front is on the move and will sweep into the bluegrass state tonight and early Friday morning. This front is separating a blast of winter and a surge of summer. That’s often a dangerous setup and leads to severe thunderstorms.
The severe weather threat continues for areas to our west early today and will roll eastward this evening and tonight. A squall line of thunderstorms is likely to sweep from west to east across our region later tonight. Damaging wind will be a big threat from this line and isolated tornadoes will be possible… especially in the west.
Temps ahead of our front will reach the 80s today on a gusty wind that may top 35mph at times. The cold air will then follow up the front with readings dropping to near 50 by Friday afternoon.
Let’s get you set to track the action…
Track the storms here…
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Make it a great day and take care.
In a sign of things to come throughout the day, the SPC now has a couple of Mesoscale Discussions about possible weather watches. This includes a possible tornado watch for parts of Missouri and Arkansas that border western KY and northwestern TN. Also a possible severe t-storm or low-end tornado watch for Indiana including near Evansville and also Owensboro KY.
Also, SPC just minutes ago updated their outlooks. Not much change, SPC still going with a moderate risk of severe wx for western KY (and western TN and most of Indiana). Rather high probabilities of strong destructive winds. More isolated large hail and isolated tornadoes, although a more elevated chance some of these twisters could be of EF2 or stronger.
Stay safe everyone.
They now have a PDS (particularly dangerous situation) for almost all of Indiana, and NW Ohio.
We lost a large tree the other nite with the storms. It’s gonna be quite the job to cut it up. I hope we get spared tonite and no more downed trees.
Looks like its moving faster than predicted.
Could be another case of the bark being worse than the bite. We shall see.
I’m still expecting the SPC to shift the axis for moderate risk along a line west of Frankfort. An update forthcoming within the hour as well as later this afternoon.
It will be interesting to see how the orientation of the squall line affects areas like Louisville as they might be closer to an earlier strike point with more instability to work with.
Wish this warm stuff would last a few days, but this is KY and we know this stuff comes at a price, could get ugly this evening in west KY, The weather channel saying high risk of dangerous tornados in Indiana, to close for comfort in my book!
All this rain coming in not good for for areas affected br the flooding yesterday.
It’s not over yet, but it seems that PDS Tornado Watch in Indiana is one that the SPC got wrong.