Good Tuesday, everyone. We continue to see rounds of showers and thunderstorms targeting the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The state is absolutely drenched with ongoing flooding issues a big problem. Unfortunately, things may get worse later today as heavy rain and strong storms increase once again.
Flash Flood Watches continue for much of Kentucky through Wednesday…
Here are the latest warnings…
Please pay close attention to creeks, streams and rivers today and Wednesday. Flooding and flash flooding are very possible, so let’s be careful out there.
Some of the afternoon and evening storms today may become severe. The Storm Prediction Center has many areas in the severe weather risk…
The risk will focus farther south and east tonight and early Wednesday as a cold front slowly works through…
Damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes are possible with this setup.
As the front move through late Wednesday, the air looks to FINALLY dry out for a few days. Temps will also come way down for the final few days of the week.
Here are your radars to track today’s showers and storms…
I will update things later today. Have a good one and take care.
I have had a storm total of 4.21″ over the last few days.
My monthly total stands at 10.01″
My annual total is 53.32″
We better hope we don’t get into October and have another tropical system aim towards KY and surrounding states. Yikes, we may have another front stall next week, based upon current data.
Harlan has lucked up and been drier than most of the state since July, but I still have hit the annual average already at 50.19 (as of this morning), and I have 2.18 since Saturday. It looks like tonight through Wednesday night will be the best chance for heavy rain in SE KY. I have no flood watch at this time but I think they should issue one down here for Wednesday as the ground is becoming saturated.
Hopefully, the strong storms will weaken some as they move south into Kentucky. I just wish we could have a cold front of polar origin rather than of Pacific. If these fronts keep “hanging up” in the Ohio valley through the Fall and Winter months, meteorologist will have a challenge as to what type of precipitation we may or may not receive.
Precipitation statistics for my county of Taylor : storm total 3.45 ” monthly total to date 7.19 ” and for the year 52.27 “
Just over three inches of rain has fallen at our house the last few days, which closely matches what other area gauges have measured including NWS Nashville. Me thinks I need to upgrade from my cheap second hand rain gauge which only goes up to five inches!
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While it is well know that Tennessee and Kentucky have their peak severe weather periods during the spring months, there is also a secondary severe wx season during the fall which on average peaks in November.
Thus area NWS offices are offering fall storm spotter c-l-a-s-s-e-s….both more traditional c-l-a-s-s-e-s as well as online courses. For example:
NWS Paducah
http://www.weather.gov/pah/spottertraining
NWS Nashville
http://www.weather.gov/ohx/skywarn
PS: While these particular courses focus on severe thunderstorms including tornadoes, spotters can also send in other information such as snowfall accumulations (hear that, winter lovers? 😉 ).
Mark, thanks for the weather spotters information. I didn’t know that one could become a weather spotter on line. I live in the hills of central Kentucky no where near a major airport, therefore I wouldn’t have any place to release weather spotter information, unless it would be a station in Louisville or Lexington ? I use to do this in Evansville, Indiana years ago. Also kept snowfall totals for one of the television station in Evansville.
Online NWS spotter courses have become very popular in only the last few years. You still may need to do at least some recurrent courses in a traditional c-l-a-s-s-r-o-o-m in or near your county. NWS Louisville would be able to help you, as Taylor County KY is within the jurisdiction of the Louisville office of the NWS.
http://www.weather.gov/lmk/spottertraining
BTW, if you were still in Evansville, that NWS office closed years ago (along with NWS offices in Knoxville, Lexington, Cincinnati, etc). Evansville is now under the purview of NWS Paducah, although Evansville still has its own NWS radar.
Are today’s storms of the developing nature (as in aren’t there now, but will develop later) or are they already out there and just going to track on through. Looks like the worst of what is out there right now is tracking north/west of KY…
If we get a dry slot, the sun will cause a convective situation and there very will could be strong storms in central and eastern Kentucky as the front moves southeast. Hopefully, this doesn’t happen ?
I think it’s happening
It did. 😉