Good Wednesday everyone. The title of this post is straight to the point as the weather today will be very similar to what we’ve had the past few days. The heat and humidity will continue as we watch additional rounds of storms move across the state. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. 🙂
The storms of today will be firing up along numerous outflow boundaries floating around the region. Any storm will have the potential to become strong or severe with high winds and hail. All of the storms will contain torrential rains and a ton of lightning. Temps outside of the storms will hit 90-95 across central and eastern Kentucky with 100 ish temps across the west. The high humidity will make it feel much hotter than that.
I am already looking ahead toward late Thursday into Friday for a possible widespread severe weather outbreak across the Ohio Valley. This will be along and ahead of a strong cold front working in from the north and northwest. Much cooler and drier air is working in behind the front and that will clash with the heat and humidity. This setup passes my “look test”.
Let’s get you all set to track whatever weather is out there today…
Watches
Possible Watches
Current Temperatures
Have a great Wednesday and take care.
Since March 2 we automatically think tornado when severe weather is mentioned and compare to that day. Will Thursday even stack up to March 2 and where do you foresee it heading?
July/August/September are not favorable months for larger tornadoes in our area – that’s mainly a spring-time scenario. IIRC, neither Kentucky nor Tennessee have had tornado fatalities in July, at least not in recorded history. IIRC, neither KY nor TN have recorded twisters stronger than F2/EF2 in July/Aug/Sept. This time of year, stronger tornadoes tend to stick closer to the Great Lakes and the northern plains.
Not saying an EF4 in our area this time of year is impossible, but a century-plus of climate records suggests this would be rare.
If anything, our area needs to be more concerned about big tornadoes in winter than July!
We will still have to look out for strong damaging winds, large hail, lightning and flash flooding tomorrow. Perhaps an isolated and relatively weak twister or two, but likely not more than this – although we need to be on guard just in case.
i will be camping tomorrow night with my 3 kids, should i be very concerned with the weather coming in,
Yes…at least somewhat concerned. Might want to wait till Friday.
thanks, we are suppose to be in fallsburg around Lousia,
Thank you so much…..I appreciate your response. After the last outbreak I am a firm believer that anything can happen but I am glad you don’t forsee anything of that magnitude 🙂
Widespread wind damage event looks likely for Thursday/night for many.
From what I’m seeing it should stay north of much of the region but there’s the possiblity of a shift west. I’m wondering if the southeast is completely out of the threat area?
Southeast part of the state?
For Thursday, the Storm Prediction Center now has a moderate risk of severe wx for Ohio, Pennsylvania and into the New England states:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html
I survived 107 in St. Louis today. I think the heat index was around 110-115 or so.