Good Thursday everyone and thanks for dropping by KWC. Showers and thunderstorms swept across Kentucky Wednesday evening with high winds and torrential rains. Some areas picked up more than three inches of water and there was a POSSIBLE tornado near Corbin. It looks like another round of booming storms will be likely later Friday into Friday night.
The weather out there today will feature warm and very humid air in place across the state. Temps will hit the low 90s west and upper 80s elsewhere. A couple of thunderstorms may try to fire up as the day wears on.
I have been advertising a big change to cool for the coming weekend and it looks like that change may take place a little sooner. A strong cold front arrives in the state by Friday night as low pressure tracks into the Great Lakes. This setup is likely to produce showers and storms as early as Friday afternoon with a squall line of storms into Friday night. This may bring a damaging wind threat to much of our state and the Ohio Valley.
Look at the gradient showing up on the European Model…
The NAM shows the line of thunderstorms I’m expecting…
In addition to the severe threat… that line may bring another round of torrential rains of 1″-2″ for much of the state. The good news is the rain and storms may end by Saturday afternoon as dry and cool air works in from the northwest. This will send us a nice blast of October air into early next week.
I will have an update on the possible severe threat later today. Have a great Thursday and take care.
What are your thoughts on the Friday evening/overnight storms here in EKY? It seems very possible that we could see some decent severe weather around here if the timing is right but I’m anxious to see what everyone thinks 🙂
It would be helpful to know due to high school football.
An article just popped up on my news page that said a weak El Nino is expected from December 2012 to February 2013. The article made no mention of what that meant for anybody in North America! Any info out there?
I’m just hoping for dry conditions Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 – we’ve got an outdoor birthday party planned for my almost 7-year-old. We don’t want the little zombies to get wet while they’re chasing each other through the corn maze at Evan’s Orchard!
Timing is slowing down. After midnight maybe. Severe chance is smaller.
Agree, if the storms arrive late, midnite or after, I would think severe threat will be less, another soaking rain would be nice at least?
what are you thoughts on the storms in inez or if there will be any over here
Well if the storms don’t make it here until well after midnight, we can hang the severe weather threat up, right? Seems like when these storms roll in from the NW, they don’t live long enough after they cross the Ohio River to keep any significant threat around.
Not that we need more severe weather, mind you. But would be good to know so as to keep from “hyping” another non-event. After last night, I’m not sure where some folks’ priorities are.
Maybe it should just dry out for another month or two. 😀
And, no, Chris—this wasn’t referring to you. On the contrary–seems like some people got upset their favorite TV show was interrupted by a possible tornado. Ah, who cares, let the tornadoes rip the televisions right off the air! I mean, seriously now—-what are some folks thinking complaining like that? If it was in their neighborhood, they wouldn’t be so whiney.
I am a firm believer that you SHOULD break in during severe weather. But talking about one very weak storm in a rural area of the state for 10 solid minutes out of a 40 minute program, which happens to be one of CBS’ biggest rating shows was a little bit ridiculous. Chris even admitted that Defender wasn’t impressed with the storm at all. So yes, people are going to get a little frustrated. A 60 second shot of the storm and warning info would have sufficed.
WXMan, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. One point I will concur with you on, however, is the fact that the storm was in a rural area of the state. This I could see playing a factor in the amount of station broadcasting a storm should receive.
However, I don’t really see how what’s on television at the time plays any factor at all in this complaint. I don’t care if it’s the State of the Union address that gets interrupted for severe weather; if it needs to be done, it needs to be done.
On top of that, there were numerous sightings of funnel clouds in the area, at least one or two by verifiable and trustworthy sources.
Finally, the one word that brought all this attention to the storm is a word you never used in your rebuttal—-“tornado.” I’ve seen firsthand the damage that tornadoes can do (and I’m sure you have as well which is somewhat surprising your stance on this matter,) and I wouldn’t want anyone to be left in the dark. Then again, I guess those “poor folks” who missed ten minutes of Big Brother got more than enough warning.
Sad fact is, there’ll always be a next time. When the next tornado hits in Kentucky, destroying property, I can only hope we have the right coverage. We should be grateful we have meteorologists who will analyze every single storm, if necessary, to make and take the right precautions and to try and help folks who might be caught off guard.
And like you, I firmly believe in my convictions on this matter, and will not change them at the drop of a hat, or because someone else thinks I’m wrong.
18Z Hi-res NAM still has some support from other models that the threat for severe weather will be very minimal during the daylight hours tomorrow. If the models are correct, Friday night football games would be in great shape. Still bears watching..