{"id":76448,"date":"2026-02-18T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76448"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:42:07","slug":"severe-storms-threat-continues-for-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=76448","title":{"rendered":"Severe Storms Threat Continues for Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, everyone. The potential for severe weather is still there for Thursday and Thursday night with a change to winter later in the weekend. That’s with a pattern looking colder as we get closer to the arrival time.<\/p>\n

A few showers and storms develop later tonight and early Thursday with a greater chance for scattered storms during the afternoon and evening. It’s once into the afternoon and evening when the best chance for a few strong to severe storms show up.<\/p>\n

That’s ahead of low pressure rolling to our north, dragging a cold front into Kentucky Friday morning. That has a broken line of showers and storms along and ahead of it.<\/p>\n

The latest future radar from the RRFS shows all this well…<\/p>\n

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This particular model run is the farthest south with the severe threat, bringing a few rotating storms across Kentucky…<\/p>\n

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The Storm Prediction Center continues to have a Marginal Risk to Slight Risk out\u2026<\/p>\n

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The tornado threat is greatest to our northwest\u2026<\/p>\n

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Areas of damaging winds have a better chance to show up in Kentucky\u2026<\/p>\n

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Some of these storms may end up producing large hail, especially across the north\u2026<\/p>\n

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The setup behind this continues to look ok for Friday before a quick round of light rain and some flakes zips from southwest to northeast Friday night and early Saturday. That will be followed by a bigger system that stays to our southeast, but comes close enough for a period of light snow. Behind that, snow showers and flurries kick in for Sunday and Monday.<\/div>\n
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Here’s the Canadian with all this…<\/div>\n
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The GFS is coming back around to seeing this…<\/div>\n
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There’s a real chance to put some snow on the ground in central and eastern Kentucky Sunday into early Monday.<\/div>\n
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The full update comes your way tonight. I will have updates on my Meteorologist Chris Bailey Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n

Until then, here are your tracking tools for the day\u2026<\/p>\n

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