Good afternoon everyone. Thunderstorms are exploding across much of western Kentucky and several of these storms have gone severe. For that reason… A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH is out for much of that part of the state until 9pm. Here is a look at the counties included…
The latest warnings
Damaging winds and large hail will be the main threat from these storms. The action is going to try to expand into central and eastern Kentucky over the next few hours and some of these may go severe later this evening. That is something to really keep an eye on as well.
You can track all the action here on radar…
I will have more updates as needed so make sure you check back. I will also use Twitter for the rapid fire updates as well. @Kentuckweather
Take care.
Whew! That line is a nasty looking one, for sure! Is this thing going to march eastward as the evening progresses, or are we pretty much ok for all that stuff that we are seeing now in WKY? Just curious….
Hopefully for the ones that care about life and property it won’t be to bad but there are those that dun care as long as it storms.
WOW…what a shield of rain following that line of thunderstorms in western ky…I sure hope it makes it to my yard…I sure need some, I missed out again yesterday…:(
Its really dry here, I know its hard to believe if you live in western and northern ky..being 7-10″ above normal..here in extreme south east ky. missed out on those torrential rains, and we are actually our rain totals are in the negative…
Chris said it might try to spread East later this evening or tonight.
Some of those warnings are outside the watch box. When do you think a new watch will go up?
here ya go Beverly
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/
Well being between two areas of convective activity sucks. 🙁 The storms north and south of us are robbing our dynamics and we sit in a hole. Boo hiss.
suits me just fine that means i don’t’ have to worry about storm damage woohoo
Boo hiss indeed. I lit my tiki torches, brought my laptop outside to stream the Reds game in hopes to watch them come in. I look at the Radar an hour later, and the line gets to the Ohio River and decides it doesn’t want to cross it. So I sit here….still listening to the game…and watching a decent sunset.
I just came in from sitting in my porch swing. It’s beautiful outside tonight.
I hope we don’t have storms tonight here in Eastern Kentucky.
Thanks Andy Rose! I appreciate it!
As I’ve said before, where else can you keep a job by being wrong 75% of the time?
As far as the last couple of weeks has gone, at least in my yard, the days with the least chance for rain (we got good rains, isolated but good) and the days with forecast widespread rain, we didn’t get anything. It’s very hard to predict weather. Look at the storms in central/southern MO and southern IL and developing into southern IN..Hmmmm, I wonder if it will explode overnight? Here lately it seems that the storms intensify evening/overnight into early morning, the during the day they are weaker….Odd.
Was really looking forward to storms here too, but none came! I think at least the last 5 days or so where we’ve had a 30 percent chance for a storm, we haven’t hit one…I think that’s LESS than a 30% chance overall.
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