{"id":1452,"date":"2009-05-10T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kyweathercenter.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2009-05-10T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:57:00","slug":"wild-weekend-winds-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"Wild Weekend Winds Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Hello everyone and Happy Mother’s Day! This has been one wicked weather weekend across the state. From deadly tornadoes to devastating floods… our Mother’s Day Weekend 2009 will be one that lives on in weather infamy.

The tornado that ripped through Madison County Friday afternoon is now official and it was a killer. Here are the findings from the NWS survey team…<\/P>
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…HIGH END EF-2\/LOW END EF-3 TORNADO TRACKED THROUGH EASTERN
GARRARD AND MADISON COUNTIES…

A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM SURVEY TEAM IS CURRENTLY
INVESTIGATING STORM DAMAGE IN MADISON AND EASTERN GARRARD COUNTIES.
THE SURVEY TEAM HAS FOUND DAMAGE CONFIRMING AN UPPER EF-2 TO LOWER
EF-3 INTENSITY TORNADO.

THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN IN EASTERN GARRARD COUNTY IN THE NINA
RIDGE ROAD AREA…WHERE IT CAUSED SOME EF-1 DAMAGE…AND REACHED
UPPER EF-2 INTENSITY BEFORE CROSSING INTO MADISON COUNTY.

NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 1295 AND 52 IN MADISON COUNTY…
THE TORNADO REACHED UPPER END EF-2 TO LOWER END EF-3 INTENSITY. NEAR
THIS INTERSECTION…TWO ADULTS WERE KILLED WHEN THE MOBILE HOME THEY
WERE IN WAS PICKED UP AND THROWN BY THE TORNADO. THE BODIES OF A 35
YEAR OLD MALE AND AN ADULT FEMALE WERE RECOVERED FROM A NEARBY POND.
FIVE OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE MOBILE HOME…INCLUDING THREE CHILDREN
…WERE INJURED. OF THESE…AN ADULT FEMALE HAS BEEN PARALYZED FROM
THE NECK DOWN…AND A FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD SUFFERED A FRACTURED SKULL
AND A BROKEN LEG.

THE TORNADO FOLLOWED AN INTERMITTENT PATH TO THE SOUTH OF RICHMOND
…THROUGH THE WACO AREA…AND CONTINUED INTO ESTILL COUNTY. THE
SURVEY TEAM IS STILL INVESTIGATING THESE AREAS…AND WE WILL PROVIDE
MORE DETAILS AS THE TEAM REPORTS TO THE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.

DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE GARRARD AND MADISON COUNTY TORNADO IS
BELOW.

BEGIN TIME:             APPROXIMATELY 504 PM EDT.
END TIME:               AFTER 516 PM EDT
LOCATION BEGIN:         IN THE NINA RIDGE ROAD AREA OF
                        EASTERN GARRARD COUNTY.
LOCATION END:           INTERMITTENT PATH THROUGH MADISON COUNTY
                        SOUTH OF RICHMOND…THROUGH WACO…AND INTO
                        ESTILL COUNTY.
EF-SCALE RATING:        UPPER END EF-2 TO LOWER END EF-3.
ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS:  UP TO 140 MPH
PATH LENGTH:            TO BE DETERMINED
PATH WIDTH:             UP TO 150 YARDS
INJURIES:               12 TO 20…TO BE DETERMINED
FATALITIES:             2

This is only the second deadly tornado on record for Madison county with the other hitting during the famed Super Outbreak of 1974. That storm was an F4 that killed 7 people. This was also the first tornado to hit the county since 2003 when an F1 tornado hit the Happy Landing area on May 11th.

The major flooding across southern and eastern Kentucky was the other big ticket weather item of the weekend. Rains of 3″-6″ fell in some areas in just a few hours time span. Just incredible scenes coming from the hardest hit areas. I have received many, many pics that look a lot like this one from Floyd County…<\/P>
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 <\/P>Check out this amazing video of the flooding out of Pike County…


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How do we look over the next week? Here is a little headline look ahead…

1. Today won’t be too shabby for all the moms. Highs will struggle to get  out of the 60s but it should be dry.

2.  Monday will see some rain returning as a weak little system crosses the area. The best chance for rain will be in the areas that DO NOT need it… the south. Right now… it looks like the showers and thundershowers will be quick movers.

3. Temps through Monday will be cooler than normal.

4. Tuesday looks to be the best day of the week with temps in the 70s under partly sunny skies.

5. A strong cold front will approach us from the northwest later Wednesday into Thursday and this may produce locally heavy rains and maybe some strong storms. Gotta watch this one.

Have a great Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day to all our weather loving Moms out there! Take care.

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 Hello everyone and Happy Mother’s Day! This has been one wicked weather weekend across the state. From deadly tornadoes to devastating floods… our Mother’s Day Weekend 2009 will be one that lives on in weather infamy.The tornado that ripped through Madison County Friday afternoon is now official and it was a killer. Here are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}