{"id":29580,"date":"2018-04-13T02:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29580"},"modified":"2018-04-13T02:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T06:33:32","slug":"tracking-the-stormy-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=29580","title":{"rendered":"Tracking The Stormy Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Friday, everyone. It’s another super windy and super warm day across the Commonwealth, but things are changing for the weekend. Rounds\u00a0 of strong thunderstorms will roll in here, ushering in much colder air by later Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n

The setup for this weekend has been detailed here on the blog for more than a week, so I don’t have much more to add. But we can have a quick little review. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Highs today may hit 80 in many areas as southwesterly winds reach 40mph or greater. As a powerful plains system continues to strengthen, it throws a line of thunderstorms our way later tonight. Some of those storms may be strong or severe, especially in the west. Here’s the current Friday severe weather risk from the SPC…<\/p>\n

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After an early day line of storms weakens across the state, we may break out into partly sunny skies. That won’t last long with additional rounds of showers and storms going up during the evening into Saturday night. Some of those may also become strong or severe…<\/p>\n

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That severe weather risk will then move east on Sunday…<\/p>\n

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Rainfall numbers for the weekend are impressive, with some areas potentially picking up greater than 3″ of rain…<\/p>\n

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Flash flooding is a real potential, especially across parts of central and western Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Temps crash on Sunday with gusty winds and rain continuing. Those gust winds will become northwesterly through Monday, with some rain and snow shower action likely on Monday.<\/p>\n

Temps will rebound quickly by Tuesday and Wednesday and may hit 70. A slight chance for a thunderstorm moves in Wednesday night and Thursday, knocking our temps down some.<\/p>\n

That won’t last long as another big severe weather look shows up next weekend…<\/p>\n

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Since February, I’ve been touting this as a potentially explosive spring for severe weather and I continue to think that. Some major outbreaks are possible through May.<\/p>\n

Let’s get back at looking into what’s going on with the severe threat to our west today…<\/p>\n

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