{"id":58365,"date":"2023-02-16T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=58365"},"modified":"2023-02-16T02:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T07:00:50","slug":"tracking-severe-storms-and-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=58365","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Severe Storms and Heavy Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. It&#8217;s a very active weather day across Kentucky and surrounding states as rounds of strong to severe storms rumble through. These storms are also packing a torrential rain punch that may cause issues before a massive temp drop leads us into a flakey Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a breakdown of how things play out through Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rounds of showers and storms are with us to start the day and continue through the morning.<\/li>\n<li>Some of these storms may be strong or locally severe.<\/li>\n<li>Torrential rains will be noted and we could be dealing with some flash flooding.<\/li>\n<li>As our low pressure cranks and heads into southern Indiana this afternoon, we watch for additional storms to develop along and ahead of the front it&#8217;s dragging.<\/li>\n<li>These are the storms that have the chance to spit out a tornado or two. The best chance looks to be across central Kentucky this afternoon and early evening.<\/li>\n<li>The severity of these storms should diminish as the action moves into eastern Kentucky by late evening.<\/li>\n<li>Cold air crashes in tonight and Friday with wind chills reaching the upper teens by late tonight.<\/li>\n<li>A few flurries and snow showers will be dancing around for Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center continues with the Enhanced Risk for severe weather for much of our part of the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/public\/state\/images\/KY_swody1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We go from severe storms to snow showers in a matter of hours. The Furure Radar from the HRRR shows the snow showers going through much of Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-6.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58368\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same model keeps wind chills in the upper teens and low 20s all day long&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-2-4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58367\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/hrrr-2-4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"808\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have updates later today and be on WKYT-TV for all your breaking severe weather needs. Until then, here are your Thursday storm tracking tools&#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 great day and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Thursday, everyone. It&#8217;s a very active weather day across Kentucky and surrounding states as rounds of strong to severe storms rumble through. These storms are also packing a torrential rain punch that may cause issues before a massive temp drop leads us into a flakey Friday. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of how things play out [&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-58365","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\/58365","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=58365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}