{"id":39498,"date":"2019-12-28T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39498"},"modified":"2019-12-28T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T06:58:42","slug":"flood-threat-sunday-and-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=39498","title":{"rendered":"Flood Threat Sunday and Sunday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Saturday, everyone. It’s full steam ahead toward a heavy rain event rolling in here Sunday and Sunday night. This heavy rain is likely to lead to some flooding issues across parts of the bluegrass state. All of this is ahead of a colder setup to end the year.<\/p>\n

My thoughts on the corridor of heaviest rains have not changed. This looks like a general 1″-3″ rainfall with locally higher amounts…<\/p>\n

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Much of that rain falls in a 12-18 hour window Sunday into Sunday evening. This would cause general flooding with localized flash flooding.<\/p>\n

I would expect Flood Watches to be issued at some point today…<\/p>\n

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The first wave of showers and a few thunderstorms will move across western Kentucky this afternoon and evening. The SPC has far western Kentucky in the low-end risk for a few severe storms…<\/p>\n

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The rain will quickly taper off by Monday morning as a dry slot sweeps in under our low to the north. That’s a colder wind blowing and we could see some backlash snow showers and flurries coming in for New Year’s Eve. This is something the models have been showing for a while, especially the GFS Ensembles and the Canadian…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>I will have updates later today. Until then, here are your early Saturday tracking tools…<\/p>\n