Good afternoon, gang. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH is now out for much of central and eastern Kentucky until 9pm. Damaging winds and large hail are the main players with the storms racing in from southwest to northeast.
These storms will also contain a ton of lightning and torrential rainfall. The heavy rain could cause local high water issues for a few spots.
Track away…
Today’s risk area
Current watches
Possible watch areas 
Current temperatures
Winds
WKYT Studio Lexington
I-75 @ Winchester Road Lexington
I-75 @ Iron Works Pike Lexington
I-75 @ Clays Ferry Bridge South Between Lexington and Richmond
US 60 @ US 127 Frankfort
US 127 @ Frankfort Frankfort
View of downtown Cynthiana
I-75 at MP 36 London
I-71/I-75 at Buttermilk Pike Near Covington
I-71/I-75 at Mt. Zion Rd. Near Covington
I-64 @ 3rd St. Exit Louisville
Downtown Louisville @ 2nd & Broadway Louisville
I will have updates as I can and will send out rapid-fire Twitter updates from @kentuckyweather.
Take care.
Thanks for the update Chris, maybe east frankfort can get a little rain today?
We could use some rain in southern Pulaski County too. Looks like it’s not far away! Just got big streak of lightning and loud thunder!
FINALLY! I good widespread line of storms moving in. This is just what we need.
Ive seen it get closer and disappear so we will have to see
That was a bad storm that just came thru Burgin.
A good down pour finally in east frankfort, nothing major but the garden is loving life at the moment!
Happy that a lot of people got a real good rain. Sad that I didn’t. My gauge shows a whopping .14 inches of rain for today. My total for the past 4 weeks is .21 inches of rain.
That is dry, hopeful the rain love comes your way later tonight or tommorrow!
A good 30 min’s of heavy rain here in northwest Lex. No lightning and thunder though. Whatever…
I heard Laurel county got hit pretty good by damaging winds. So far .5 of rain for the garden at my house
I think the south end of the county got the worst of it.Heard of a couple small trees down in the East Bernstadt area but doesn’t seem to be any major issues except power outages.The south part of the county appears to have damage.Building at the flea market collapsed,trees down,power poles broken,etc.Looking at the outage viewer page there are a lot of outages for KU and quiet a few for Jackson Energy.
Heard mention of a wreck on the scanner .We had some very loud thunder here and extreme lightening and a heavy downpour but its relatively quiet now.Sure hope there will be no injuries and no major damage.
In southern Laurel county many trees broken off at the trunk, others pulled up by the roots. Witnessed half a dozen houses with trees on them. A couple power lines across roads. A standard billboard sign on 229 was shredded.
On 25, a state road sign bent to the ground. Debris from nearby dismantled metal utility buildings strown 200 feet.
The airport registerd 58 mph wind gusts
wooooooo
Rain. Yep, read that right. Rain. Might have to get some mowing in this weekend. Rained hard for a little and now a nice steady one going on here.
1.4 in. In east frankfort this afternoon, some spots in frankfort under food advisory, must be the spots that got hit the other day, the best rain in my area in 20 days!
So happy! Maybe the broken record will stop for a while now.
Lets hope?
Nothing but a nice soaking rain in Johnson county. 30 mph wind tops, very little thunder and lightning. Yet, we had a severe thunderstorm warning with 70 mph winds and hail damage almost guaranteed.
Johnson County is much bigger than your backyard.
Yawn.
Is there more to come tonight or tomorrow? It blew the big 20ft barn door down pretty much ripped it off the barn and messed up another door pretty bad too…in south Laurel county off of 1189
My sister was up there when that happened not an ideal place to be during a bad storm
Got another 0.25″ this evening here in Campbell County. We haven’t been under any dry spell like other apparently have been, however.
Looks like the folks at JKL will have some storm surveying to do tomorrow in southern Laurel County.
Have heard of some damage and read some reports of damage around KY. Hope everyone is ok and the damage is not to bad.
As for the twitter feed on this site there are some amazing and awesome looking photos there. Glad that feed is on here.
We have several trees down here, ripped half the roof off of an empty trailor, still no electric, I’m on here via a generator. I wont complain anymore! The wind in front of the house was blowing south, in back it was blowing north, there was def. rotating wind, I’ve never saw anything like it.
Sounds like tornado?