{"id":58350,"date":"2023-02-15T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=58350"},"modified":"2023-02-15T00:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:56:37","slug":"strong-to-severe-storms-tonight-and-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=58350","title":{"rendered":"Strong To Severe Storms Tonight and Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. You&#8217;re probably checking your calendar to make sure it still says February because today&#8217;s weather is looking and feeling more like April. This warm surge of air will bring an increased threat for strong to severe storms later tonight and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Temps out there today hit 70-75 for many areas and that threatens all kinds of record highs for the day. Strong southwest winds will continue through the day but should diminish some into the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>That brings us to the severe weather part of the program. Here&#8217;s a breakdown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winds crank again tonight and Thursday. Gusts to 50mph will be possible and that\u2019s without thunderstorms.<\/li>\n<li>Rounds of thunderstorms quickly increase from south to north overnight and Thursday morning. Some of those could be strong or severe and put down a lot of rain that may cause flash flooding issues.<\/li>\n<li>With low pressure tracking to our west and northwest Thursday, our region will be in the area to watch for additional strong to severe storms.<\/li>\n<li>Damaging wind is the main threat, but there\u2019s enough spin for a low tornado risk.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m especially concerned about a few spinups across areas of central and north central Kentucky between Noon and 6pm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center has western Kentucky in the low-end threat for severe storms later today into this evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SPC then increases that severe threat farther east for Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As our cold front moves east, temps crash quickly from the northwest and we may even see some flurries or snow showers by Friday morning. Check out the Future Radar from the Hi Res NAM that shows how quickly we go from storms to flakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58355\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That animation starts at 1pm Thursday and runs through 7am Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The wind chill animation for the same timeframe is wild&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-2-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58354\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-2-2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have another update later today. Until then, here are your tools to track the increase in storms from the west and southwest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/builder.zoomradar.net\/zoomradar_weather_map\/weather_page.php?key=dlFZs5IY4VCw7bK\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><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#\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" alt=\"\" usemap=\"#largemap\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current watches<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" alt=\"Current Watches\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Watch Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" alt=\"Current MDs\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday to one and all. You&#8217;re probably checking your calendar to make sure it still says February because today&#8217;s weather is looking and feeling more like April. This warm surge of air will bring an increased threat for strong to severe storms later tonight and Thursday. Temps out there today hit 70-75 for many [&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-58350","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\/58350","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=58350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}