Good afternoon, folks. A severe weather outbreak is likely tonight into Saturday morning across Kentucky and surrounding areas. This includes the potential for a few strong tornadoes across the western half of the state.
The Storm Prediction Center has now placed areas of western Kentucky in the Moderate Risk for severe storms and tornadoes…
You can see that Enhanced Risk into central Kentucky with the Marginal to Slight Risk into the east.
The tornado risk map from the SPC now shows the increasing threat in the “hatched” area…
A few long tracked and violent tornadoes are possible across the western half of the state.
The wind damage potential continues to be very high across much of the region…
The forecast models are spitting out some 60mph+ wind gusts…
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As the line of severe storms pushes eastward late tonight and Saturday morning, the threat area focuses into the eastern half of the state. Here’s the SPC map for Saturday…
In addition to the severe threat, local flash flooding issues will be possible with these storms. A quick 1″-3″ of rain will be possible in some areas.
I will have additional updates later this evening and through the night. I will also have the continuing coverage as needed on WKYT-TV.
As usual, I have you all set to track the severe weather. Our exclusive interactive radar also features live storm chaser video streams, so be sure to check that out…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Enjoy the rest of the day and take care.
Will b following your Twitter account throughout the night.
I’m pretty sure that this is the first time all year that any portion of Kentucky has been under an Enhanced or Moderate Threat of severe weather.
What’s so weird Illinois Mike is that we had a tornado touch down earlier this week at Scott. Co and who knows what might unfold tonight and it’s December.