{"id":70577,"date":"2025-03-12T19:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=70577"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:17:28","slug":"significant-severe-threat-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=70577","title":{"rendered":"Significant Severe Threat This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. It&#8217;s all eyes on the weekend and the potential for a significant severe weather event for parts of our region. This gets started Friday night and rolls through Saturday night with all modes of severe weather a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center has a Marginal Risk to Enhanced Risk of severe storms across western and central parts of the state for late Friday and Friday night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody3.png?1741721224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SPC shows the increased risk for severe weather across the west with the prime time from the late evening into the wee hours of Saturday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody3_PROB.png?1741765021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That line of storms should weaken the farther east it gets Saturday morning, but another low forms along this front and lifts northeastward Saturday afternoon and evening. Along and ahead of this low finds the increased threat for waves of severe thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>The Storm Prediction Center has much of Kentucky in this risk area for Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spc.noaa.gov\/partners\/outlooks\/state\/images\/KY_swody4_PROB.png?1741683184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suspect the greatest severe storms risk is across central and eastern parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The latest from the Colorado State University composites for severe weather continues to show the Friday threat along the Mississippi River&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70579\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-1-1.png 696w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-1-1-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threat for Saturday then REALLY increases from Kentucky into areas of the deep south, where this thing is maxed out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70580\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-2-1.png 697w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CSU-2-1-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s impressive and scary at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>High winds are the main threat for our region with the potential for a tornado or two to spin up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of winds, the GFS continues to spin out some serious gusts across central and eastern Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-3-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70585\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-3-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-3-2.png 962w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-3-2-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-3-2-768x605.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also concerned about flash flooding Saturday into Saturday evening. The GFS has a corridor of torrential rains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70581\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-11.png 967w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-11-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GFS-11-768x601.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian sees something similar but to a lesser extreme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Canadian-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70583\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Canadian-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Canadian-3.png 967w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Canadian-3-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Canadian-3-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The EURO continues to slowly come around to this thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EURO-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70584\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EURO-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EURO-13.png 965w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EURO-13-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/EURO-13-768x602.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have the full update on all this later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the evening and take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, everyone. It&#8217;s all eyes on the weekend and the potential for a significant severe weather event for parts of our region. This gets started Friday night and rolls through Saturday night with all modes of severe weather a possibility. The Storm Prediction Center has a Marginal Risk to Enhanced Risk of severe storms [&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-70577","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\/70577","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=70577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70586,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70577\/revisions\/70586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}