Good Thursday everyone. An outbreak of severe weather is likely today from Missouri to New England and this should include much of the bluegrass state. The ingredients are coming together for a possible damaging wind event across much of the outlined region.
Some thoughts:
– Heat and humidity will be common ahead of the storms. Temps will hit the low and mid 90s in the central and east and 100-105 in the west. The heat index will be much higher.
– A squall line of thunderstorms will develop to our northwest during the afternoon. This line will then settle into Kentucky during the afternoon and evening.
– The prime severe weather time appears to run from 3pm-11pm. That could change a bit depending on the speed of the front.
– Damaging winds of 60mph or greater will be the main severe threat.
– Additional storms may fire on Friday, but these don’t look to be as strong as what we deal with today.
Let’s get to tracking today’s action…
Watches
Possible Watches
I will have updates as needed and will send out warnings via twitter. Follow me: @kentuckyweather. Today is also a WKYT 27 First Alert Severe Weather Day. Our weather team will be updating the storm threat throughout the day on WKYT-TV and online.
Have a great Thursday and take care.
Looks like some serious outflow boundries being pushed out by the storms from Illinois south west through Kansas. Could be the focal point for our storms to be fired up from.
Will Corbin/London area get any of this weather?
Many times in setups like this we see two distinct areas of severe. One would be closer to the parent low (New England in this case), the other on the tail end of the front across Missouri/Arkansas. Kentucky may end up in the “donut hole” where nothing much happens. But…if we get rain I’ll be happy!
Good morning, WXman.
Here’s a WKU article from a few weeks ago. Does it give you fond memories of your undergraduate days? 😉
http://wkunews.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/tornado-research/
Yeah today will likely be crazy folks. Tornado threat low, but the wind damage threat, especially in cities like Lexington, Louisville and frankfort is very high.
how is it looking for the Louisa area for today, going to be camping there tonight?
Hoping for no strong winds today. Still have 2 big trees down from last Thursday we need to clean up. Rain would sure be great, though. Haven’t had a drop for a week.
Watches coming out soon. Looks like paremeters are just about in place for rapid storm development as cap continues to weaken.