{"id":338,"date":"2011-04-21T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.kyweathercenter.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2011-04-21T04:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:45:00","slug":"heavy-rain-and-storms-set-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain and Storms Set To Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday everyone. Have you enjoyed the small break from the storms and heavy rains? If not&#8230; you are outta luck as the the dynamic duo is set to return tonight into Friday. As a matter of fact&#8230; the threat for flooding rains and some severe storms is on the increase.<BR><BR>The NWS folks are busy surveying storm damage across the state from the Tuesday night storms. 4 tornadoes have been confirmed so far&#8230;<BR><BR><STRONG>EF-1 Scott County<BR><BR>EF-1 Oldham County<BR><BR>EF-1 Simpson County<BR><BR>EF-0 Franklin County&nbsp;<BR><\/STRONG><BR>The same front that caused&nbsp;all the severe weather will be returning northward as a warm front tonight and Friday. This will bring showers and thunderstorms back into the weather picture. Some of these may get going today across our southern counties and you can track the drops here&#8230;<BR><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/radar-large.asp?partner=netweather&amp;traveler=0&amp;site=KY_&amp;type=SIR&amp;anim=1&amp;level=state&amp;large=1#\" s_oc=\"null\"><IMG class=radar_img_6x4 alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" useMap=#largemap><\/A><BR><BR>Rain and storms will really increase tonight into Friday as we set the stage for significant rain totals for many areas&#8230; especially across the northern half of the state. Here is the area of greatest concern&#8230;<BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; WIDTH: 600px; HEIGHT: 300px; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/0\/4\/8\/0\/3\/139967-130840\/Special66.png?a=40\"><BR><BR>Some of these storms may be on the strong side with the highest threat for severe storms being across parts of central and western Kentucky as unstable air surges in. Here is the latest severe storms outlook for Friday from the Storm Prediction Center&#8230;<BR><BR><A href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day2otlk.html\"><\/A><A href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day2otlk.html\"><IMG alt=\"1730 UTC Day 2 Outlook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day2otlk_sm.gif\" width=190 height=136><\/A><BR><BR>Our Easter Weekend will feature the threat for on and off showers and strong thunderstorms. We will continue to watch the potential for heavy rains and flooding. Warm air will rule with high 70s and low 80s for afternoon temps looking likely.<BR><BR>The pattern remains the same into early next week and may even ramp up a bit as another big storm develops across the plains. This has the looks of another big ticket severe weather event from the plains into the Ohio Valley and may actually be a multi day threat&#8230;<BR><BR><IMG style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/0\/4\/8\/0\/3\/139967-130840\/EURO155.PNG?a=84\"><BR><BR>The word Amazing doesn&#8217;t do this pattern justice as it is smashing severe weather records left and right. Just think&#8230; we aren&#8217;t to the heart of the severe storms season yet!<BR><BR>I will have updates as needed so check back. Have a great Thursday and take care.<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday everyone. Have you enjoyed the small break from the storms and heavy rains? If not&#8230; you are outta luck as the the dynamic duo is set to return tonight into Friday. As a matter of fact&#8230; the threat for flooding rains and some severe storms is on the increase.The NWS folks are busy [&hellip;]<\/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-338","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\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}