Good Saturday, everyone. Rounds of showers and thunderstorms continue to rumble across the region, causing a few issues along the way. Temps are coming down and those numbers drop even more behind a cold front set to arrive on the first day of July.
As expected, Friday was another day of strong to severe storms across the region. Lexington took it on the chin once again, but this time on the other end of town from the Thursday storm. Numerous trees were down across the east and southeast side of the city…
@Kentuckyweather @AlexaMintonWX @BenWKYT @JimWKYT @WKYT @cjwxguy56 @jloganwxguy @JustinEsterlyWx Several trees and limbs down on the Brighton East Walking Trail this evening, from the afternoon storm in SE Lexington. pic.twitter.com/TX3Auts1Sc
— james starr (@tripletdad2000) June 28, 2025
A warning was never issued for this storm.
Similar storms go up out there again today and may have a little better coverage. Pockets of damaging wind will show up again. Here’s today’s Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
These storms will also contain tremendous amounts of rain that can cause local flash flooding concerns once again.
Scattered showers and storms will be noted again Sunday with an increase coming Monday and Tuesday. That’s when a cold front sweeps across the region with much better air and mainly dry skies as we go into the 2nd and 3rd of July.
This GFS animation starts Sunday morning and goes through Wednesday morning…
I’m still torn on the 4th of July as some scattered stuff invades the west during the day. This is ahead of additional rounds of showers and storms returning over the weekend and likely hanging around into the following week.
The latest CFS weeklies show a wetter than normal pattern for week 3 and 4, which would be during the middle of July…
That same model suggests normal to below normal temps during the same time…
As we look ahead to the entire month of July, the GFS Extended shows a nice pipeline of above normal rains from the Gulf to the Ohio Valley…
None of that is shocking considering we are about to wrap up the wettest first half of a year in Kentucky history.
That same run of the GFS Extended shows near normal temps through the same period…
That’s the average anomaly and we will get to that with periods of above normal temps and periods of below normal temps. Sounds a bit like life, eh? ha
As usual, I leave you with your storm tracking tools for the day…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a sensational Saturday and take care.
I know spring is severe weather season but to be totally honest and thinking back through living here since the mid 90s… the worst storms I’ve seen have been in summer (except for the 2004 tornado).. I think it was June 1998 I was at Woodhill shopping center and it was like a microburst for what felt like 2 hours… one of the craziest storms I’ve ever seen. It blew open the double doors of the store…It was like a hurricane with lightning… Next day the headline was in the paper (5 inches of rain in 2 hours) or something like that… Another really bad one was July a few years ago… and then September 2006
It’s a given that storms year round are more intense, as compared to 50 years ago.
The line between rain and none was dramatic. Just a few blocks south? Drenched. Us? .05”. Underneath the tree canopy? Totally dry.
Have been watering this morning. That means rain will fall on us this afternoon, right? Maybe waxing the car would help.
Or plan a picnic LOL…..
I hope those models crash and burn.
After a good needed dry spell, we’re getting hammer with heavy rainfall with lighting as I’m typing this. Here in Union.Co. ugh
Believe it or not, we could’ve gone dry longer and still been ok. Some people actually thought we were in a drought already. We’re still probably 15 or more inches ahead.
I agree with you. We don’t need no more rain, but it down pour continuously for 30 minutes something we don’t need.
We haven’t had a drop of Rain here in northTaylor County for over a week now. The cold air aloft has not been over head to promote condensation resulting in precipitation. I notice that a lot of these heavy rain and high destructive winds have occurred at lower elevations.