Good soggy Saturday. Our weather pattern continues to feature tropical moisture working into the region for the Gulf of Mexico. This will lead to additional rounds of showers and thunderstorms that will keep our flood threat very high.
The Flash Flood Watch for central and eastern Kentucky runs into Sunday.
We have picked up 1″-6″ of rain over the past few days and the ground is full of water. Thunderstorms will now get into the mix and these can put down several inches of rain in just a few hours. That can lead to some big time flash flooding for areas getting under those.
The latest NAM shows a lot of water falling through Sunday night…
Please stay alert to the high water potential during this time. This has the potential to get very ugly for some areas.
Your radars…
I will have updates as needed and will send out updates and warnings via twitter: Kentuckyweather. I will also have updates on my Chris Bailey WKYT Facebook page.
Stay safe and take care.
This weather is just crazy!!
Has the primary rain threat shifted off the east? Just looking at radar and a later model run makes me think that. Does any one else get that idea?
The U.S. 127 corridor is getting hammered this morning! I had 2.8 inches of rain in Lawrenceburg between sunrise yesterday and sunset. I emptied the gauge, and just went back outside and there is another 1.8 inches in it. 4.6 inches in a little over 24 hours!
Now seeing a eastward shift.
The radar presently has very abundant yellow and some red for the Tennessee Plateau. So looks like Kentucky won’t get any letup anytime soon, at least around the I-75 corridor.
A separate area of soaking rain is now over Nashville, so watch out Bowling Green and Glasgow (I’m in BG for the holiday to be with my fiancée and relatives). At least here there have been enough breaks in the heavy rain the last few days for people to light their fireworks 😉
On this note, interesting that there has been relatively little lightning/thunder from this weather system.
Nope it’s been west of I 75 for 36 hrs. Don’t know what’s keeping it so fixed in position ??!!!
Thanks, Chris. Looks like a great day to do some indoor chores to me. Got a few I have been putting off. Guess they will get done today. Thanks for keeping us up to date. Will be keeping an eye on twitter and the FB page. Stay safe, everyone.
Looking through the records, the last time I can find having one inch or more of rainfall on 3 straight days was February 13-15, 1989. Let’s hope tomorrow doesn’t make 4 straight days.
And to think some were worried about drought just a few weeks ago.
Would like to know what the NWS in Wilmington was thinking when they took down the Flash Flood Watch last night. We’ve had 2.08″ of rain since midnight as of this typing in Campbell County and everything in the Cincinnati area is under water.
Well here in Jeffersonville KY we have not had super impressive rain totals every day. But today is turning out to be very wet. The largest we have had since Monday was 1.06 inches in 24 hours that was on Thursday and Friday. Today if it continues will out do the other days by far. Because just today in the past 4 hours we have had .63 with more on the way. For this entire period beginning on Monday we are at 3.37 inches. Interestingly enough last night during a storm we hit a rain rate of 8.64 inches per hour… I have never seen it rain that hard, thankfully it only lasted for a few minutes.
Heavy rain has shifted east of Frankfort, between 5 and 7 inches around Frankfort pending on your location in the past 3 days, its time for a break, the lake behind my house looks to be near record level!
Todd,
You and I were both griping about the rain missing us not too long ago. Now we can gripe about getting too much. 🙂
Nice evening here in Louisville. The skies have cleared and the sun is out. I picked up an inch of rain overnight bringing my total for this system to 1.75 inches. That makes my total since June 15 nearly 14 inches. Only had a half inch the first half of June after very little in May. Everything is green and lush and looks like late April instead of early July.
Any body see the full double rainbow in Richmond about 8:30 until now? My wife could see it in Winchester as well. Sun shining from the west gave it the perfect set up. Pretty. I wish my panoramic photo skills were better.
Yep, saw it here in Lexington as well. It was simply beautiful! I was at Krogers and saw it on my way to the car. It was so funny – I took my phone out to take pictures and when finished, I looked around the parking lot and there must have been 15 people doing the same thing! Very, very special rainbow , that’s for sure.
The western parts of KY and TN have been more active this evening. A couple of new Flash Flood Warnings are in effect around the Land Between the Lakes area on both sides of the KY/TN line. There was even a Tornado Warning a few hours ago for Trigg County KY.
It’s of course harder to see flooding at night, so be careful.