Good Monday and welcome to a rather stormy week here in the bluegrass state. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms will continue to rumble across the land today into this evening. Some of those may be on the strong and severe side and I have all your tracking tools coming up.
I want to also focus on what may be coming down the road for Tuesday night through Thursday. We have a surge of hot air across the southern plains and this will make a run at us during this time. It’s a setup that can produce big clusters of thunderstorms that develop across the midwest that dive our way. Here’s the area I’m highlighting for the potential for these storms…
Some of these storm clusters can develop into damaging wind events and that will be something to watch out for… especially later Wednesday.
Temps during this time may fight close to 90 degrees and that would add some fuel to the fire for those storms to crank.
A cold front will move in on Thursday and knock the temps back down.
Back to today’s weather… rounds of storms may be strong or severe. Heavy rain may cause high water issues for some and these boomers will be loaded with lightning. Damaging wind will be possible with the strongest cells.
Let’s track…
Today’s Risk Area
Current Watches
Possible Watch Areas
I will send out updates and warnings via twitter: Kentuckyweather or follow along in the twitter feed on the right side of the blog. I will also have updates on my Chris Bailey WKYT Facebook page.
Take care.
tx Bailey, thought it might dry up, but look like going be a wet one for the next month or so still
So much for the two week mini-trend of mainly rain misses. Looks like no repeat of last year so far 🙂 Heat included 🙂 Sub 90’s are nice.
KY Mesonet site recorded at least a trace of rain 14 out of 31 days in May for Knox Co. Has recorded rain 7 out of 10 days in June. It’s summer time and I’m in dire need of at least 5 days of a forecast of sunny skies with no chance of rain.
Finally got a good rain in east Frankfort last nite, 1.3 in the gauge this morning, we had missed most of the rain everyone else was getting!
thanks, Chris. Looking like storms are just to my west right now. Hope they don’t get too bad. We got a good rain last night and again this morning, but it is sunny to p/c right now with windy conditions.
90s on Wednesday possible? Wow! a taste of summer. Will be keeping an eye on the blog and twitter this afternoon for sure with these storms in the area. Have a great Monday, everyone. Thanks again, Chris, for keeping us safe and ahead of the action!
The Severe Thunderstorm Watch is nice but the two tornado warnings without a Tornado Watch in place is a little troubling. Apologies in advance if I overlooked it.
Tornadoes are always a possibility with any t-storm.
The tornado probabilities in severe t-storm watches tend to be low to very low, but not zero.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0291.html
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0295.html
The dome is alive and well in the metro. No lightning or thunder but just plain rain.
Footage from Nashville’s CBS affiliate (click link here) of possible tornado damage at Adairville KY which is very near the Tennessee line. No reported injuries so far.
Looks like up to EF3 destruction. Will be interesting to see what damage rating the NWS storm survey team finds.
No injuries reported so far, hope it stays that way.
I received numerous storm warning texts, but work was too busy to allow much monitoring unless directly affected. Fortunately, my immediate area was relatively untouched, although a tornado watch remains in effect for central Tennessee.
Stay safe everyone.
Mighty ugly clouds going north-east of Irvine! Not much rain, but lightning.