{"id":9337,"date":"2014-02-19T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=9337"},"modified":"2014-02-19T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:05:49","slug":"severe-weather-threat-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/?p=9337","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather Threat Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday evening. Thursday has all the makings of a very active weather day across the bluegrass state with high winds and severe thunderstorms. A Wind Advisory is already out for much of the state through early Friday as wind gusts will top out at greater than 40mph.<\/p>\n<p>The latest update from the Storm Prediction Center continues with the slight risk, but shows an elevated severe weather potential for central and western Kentucky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SPC3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9338\" alt=\"SPC\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SPC3.png\" width=\"787\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SPC3.png 787w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SPC3-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A squall line of thunderstorms will likely develop across western Kentucky and roll eastward during the evening hours. We will need to keep a close eye on the possibility of a few storms going up ahead of this line. That&#8217;s something the latest Hi-Res NAM simulated radar is showing tomorrow evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/NAM7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9339\" alt=\"NAM\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/NAM7.png\" width=\"537\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/NAM7.png 537w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/NAM7-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If those storms to go up ahead of the line&#8230; a few tornadoes would be possible. That is certainly not a given, but it&#8217;s something we will have to keep an eye on. Regardless&#8230; the squall line can produce damaging winds as it rolls to the east.<\/p>\n<p>On a different note&#8230; winter is coming back and may come back in a big way. How about a late February and early March version of the Polar Vortex? That is being suggested by most of the medium range models and would mean a prolonged period of much colder than normal weather around here. Look at a 5 day average temperature departure in Celsius&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Euro-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9340\" alt=\"Euro 2\" src=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Euro-24.png\" width=\"465\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Euro-24.png 465w, https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Euro-24-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a>Winter&#8230; Is&#8230; Not&#8230; Over!<\/p>\n<p>Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Wednesday evening. Thursday has all the makings of a very active weather day across the bluegrass state with high winds and severe thunderstorms. A Wind Advisory is already out for much of the state through early Friday as wind gusts will top out at greater than 40mph. The latest update from the Storm Prediction [&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-9337","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\/9337","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=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyweathercenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}