Good Friday everyone and welcome to the weekend. If you are a regular here on the blog… you already know we like to start the weekend a day early. 
The weekend is going to get off to a rather rainy and stormy note for many areas with some of that hanging into the first part of the weekend.
Low pressure is weakening out as it rolls in from the west today into Saturday. Showers and thunderstorms will be with us today across most of the area. It will not rain the entire day… but the threat will be there at any given time and place. There is a ton of moisture streaming in here so heavy rains are a good bet. Given how wet the ground is in some areas… we need to keep an eye on the high water potential. That is especially true for areas that get repeat shower and thunderstorm action.
The threat for severe weather today is also with parts of the state… mainly across the central and western sections. Here is the latest outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Track the showers and storms here…
The NAM continues to show the slow movement of the rains…
This afternoon
This Evening
The axis of heaviest rains will move east by Saturday…
Areas outside of the showers and storms will see temps quickly soar into the 80s! Speaking of soaring… our thermometers and humidity levels will do just that through next week. It is going to be a VERY warm and humid last full week of May! There should also be the threat for some afternoon boomers going up each day.
By the way… we mentioned several days ago to watch for the tropics to try to come to an early life. Keep an eye off the southeastern coast over the next several days. 
Have a great Friday and take care.
Thanks Chris! Oh, more rain…yawning..
Oh well, it’s better than snow and ice!
🙂
Thanks, Chris! Do you accept bribes for sunny days?
I’ll take this rain over a drought any day.
STORM HEADING INTO LEXINGTON NOW. WIND HAS PICKED UP AND DARK OFF TO THE SW. ALSO A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER EVERY COUPLE OF MINUTES…
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0646.html
Louisville will likely be in that new Watch.
I think we’ve had too much this month. A nice 2-week dry spell would be perfect.
How bout we save that dry spell for Memorial Weekend…camping is no fun in the rain.
It’s gotten very sunny and the radar is pretty much clear. Anyone think we’ll get anything severe later today?
was sunny here in Gtown for a little while then all of a sudden the wind started blowing and the sky is getting dark again…the radar was clear and then bam…there was a pop up blob of red and orange.
not seen the sun all day
the spc has taken us out of the slight risk!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m starting to wonder if they have lost thier minds. The cap is totally breaking, but they evidently hav absoulutly no patience.
Chris, obviously the SPC doesn’t consider a funnel cloud as severe weather until it is on the ground 🙂
Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties until 5:30pm!!!!!!
Had our rain chance knocked down to 30% 🙁
Wicked storm outside right now. Heaviest rain in a long time, some thunder, very gusty winds.
Looks like that tornadic cell moving across so. Indiana may come close to Louisville.Storms really cranking now across Ky.
Now back up to 70% chance of rain/storms…WHO IS FORCASTING TODAY! The creators of Wheel of Forcasting? grrrrrr
We’re getting some very heavy thunder here in Southern Franklin Co. Electric has blinked a couple of times.
Raining very hard, lots of lightning here in WSW Franklin Co.
the storm heading into frankfort likely has hail with it.
we’re not getting a watch. I think we’re a few hours before being out of the woods tonight.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/md0657.html
Tornado Warning – Shelby, Franklin, Anderson
tornado warning for frankfort, rotation showing up on doppler just south of frankfort. seek shelter now.
WSW Franklin Co here, seems like the quiet before the storm. Sirens went off, tornado warning, seems mostly for Avonstoke, Farmdale area. Everyone watch the sky and be ready to take cover.
squall line getting a lot stronger with tornado warnings now.
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0657
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0641 PM CDT FRI MAY 21 2010
AREAS AFFECTED…NRN/CNTRL KY…SRN OH…FAR SRN IND
CONCERNING…SEVERE POTENTIAL…WATCH UNLIKELY
VALID 212341Z – 220045Z
BRIEF TORNADO AND MARGINAL WIND/HAIL THREAT SHOULD PERSIST FOR A FEW
HOURS INTO MID-EVENING. GIVEN THE RELATIVELY MODEST
DURATION/AMPLITUDE…A WW ISSUANCE DOES NOT APPEAR NECESSARY ATTM.
TSTM COVERAGE HAS INCREASED OVER THE PAST HOUR OR SO WITH SCATTERED
DISCRETE CELLS/CLUSTERS DEVELOPING DOWNSTREAM OF A SHORT-LINE
SEGMENT /NOW OVER FAR SRN IND/. VWP DATA FROM LOUISVILLE KY AND
WILMINGTON OH DEPICT 20-25 KT 0-1 KM SHEAR…WHICH HAS SUPPORTED
WEAK TO MODERATE ROTATION IN A FEW CELLS. GIVEN THE DEGREE OF
LOW-LEVEL SHEAR…AND SURFACE TEMPERATURE/DEW POINT SPREADS AOB 10
DEG F…THREAT FOR A BRIEF TORNADO WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE
OF HOURS. WITH TIME THIS EVENING…CONTINUED STORM-SCALE
CONSOLIDATION AND ONLY MODEST LOW-LEVEL WARM THETA-E ADVECTION TO
OFFSET NOCTURNAL COOLING SHOULD FURTHER MITIGATE THE MARGINAL
OVERALL THREAT.
lol What a joke
http://www.facebook.com/WKUWeather#!/photo.php?pid=1149299&id=1073662104&fbid=1399432900535
Really???
I’ve been wondering why some of these storms are still pulsing up even after sunset.
I should have known that wouldn’t work. I am trying to post these TEXTBOOK pictures of the wall cloud as it moved into Frankfort. WOW.
I was out joyriding in the frankfort area and saw it. Did a 180 and headed back to lexington at a little bit of high speed.
There are unconfirmed reports of a tornado touchdown on KY 151 in Franklin County. Trying to get more details…
Yeah that was the most well developed storm I have seen here in a long time. I emailed some pics to Chris…maybe he’ll post ’em up for us.
If the SPC had issued a watch of some sort around 4-5pm that would be set to expire at around 10pm or so, how smart would have that looked right now???
WOW back in slight risk AGAIN for today! this is CRAZINESS!
I haven’t heard of any confirmations of a tornado. But they did put out a warning. Let me know if you hear of any true touchdowns. Thanks
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