{"id":6446,"date":"2013-04-09T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2013-04-09T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T04:50:20","slug":"watching-the-severe-weather-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=6446","title":{"rendered":"Watching The Severe Weather Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. In keeping with the theme of &#8220;extreme is the new normal&#8221;&#8230; record high temps may fall across parts of the state today. Don&#8217;t get too used to it as a big shot of chill moves in by Friday. Going from near record warmth to chilly air is never a good thing in the springtime and usually means severe weather is the buffer.<\/p>\n<p>That severe weather threat will get going late today in the west and roll eastward across the bluegrass state on Thursday. This is all ahead of a powerful storm bringing a blizzard to parts of the plains states. An area of low pressure will move toward the northern Ohio Valley on Thursday and will drag a strong cold front through here. That means a line of strong and severe thunderstorms is a very real possibility.<\/p>\n<p>The High Resolution NAM Simulated Radar shows the progress of the storms&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NAM-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6450\" alt=\"NAM 1\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NAM-1.png\" width=\"624\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NAM-1.png 624w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/NAM-1-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>Damaging winds appear to be the greatest threat.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what today&#8217;s severe weather outlook from the Storm Prediction Center looks like&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day1otlk.html\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest Day 1 convective outlook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day1otlk.gif\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That threat then moves into central and eastern Kentucky for Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"main\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/outlook\/day2otlk_0600.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all you need to track the storms working in from the west today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Watches<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Current Watches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/watch\/validww.png\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Watch Areas<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Current MDs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/products\/md\/validmd.png\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Track the storms here\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/radblast-mi.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/radar\/WUNIDS_map?station=PAH&amp;brand=wui&amp;num=6&amp;delay=15&amp;type=N0R&amp;frame=0&amp;scale=1.000&amp;noclutter=0&amp;t=1293824059&amp;lat=0&amp;lon=0&amp;label=you&amp;showstorms=0&amp;map.x=400&amp;map.y=240&amp;centerx=400&amp;centery=240&amp;transx=0&amp;transy=0&amp;showlabels=1&amp;severe=0&amp;rainsnow=0&amp;lightning=0&amp;smooth=0\" \/><\/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#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sirocco.accuweather.com\/nx_mosaic_640x480_public\/sir\/inmaSIRKY_.gif\" usemap=\"#largemap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will have updates as needed and will send out quick thoughts via twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Kentuckyweather\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kentuckyweather<\/span><\/a> or follow along in the twitter feed on the right side of the blog. I will also have updates on my <strong>Chris Bailey WKYT<\/strong> Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great Wednesday and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday, everyone. In keeping with the theme of &#8220;extreme is the new normal&#8221;&#8230; record high temps may fall across parts of the state today. Don&#8217;t get too used to it as a big shot of chill moves in by Friday. Going from near record warmth to chilly air is never a good thing in [&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-6446","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\/6446","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=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}