Multiple rounds of strong-to-severe storms on the way through Thursday morning
Meteorologist Dillon Gaudet has the latest in your full ABC 36 Storm Team forecast
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) – We are tracking a very active midweek across central and eastern Kentucky. All of the ABC 36 Viewing Area has at least a Level 2 Severe Risk for Tuesday and Wednesday. Make sure you are staying Weather Aware and have multiple ways to receive weather alerts. This has the potential to be a significant severe weather event across the region.
Tuesday will start quiet with patchy fog fading, before an initial round of showers and storms arrives during the afternoon and early evening. Isolated strong-to-severe storms are possible with this round. The biggest question with today’s forecast is if there will be an organized stronger line of storms Tuesday evening through the first half of the overnight. This could pose a damaging wind gust, large hail, and isolated tornado potential.
We will start off your Wednesday quiet, just like on Tuesday. This will allow the atmosphere to become volatile and increase the risk for severe storms in the second half of the day on Wednesday. Wednesday’s severe threat will likely come in two waves as well. Afternoon and evening severe storms that fire up will pose isolated-to-scattered severe storms will all types of severe weather on the table, including scattered damaging wind gusts, large hail, and isolated tornadoes. Then, a more organized line of storms will be moving in late Wednesday evening into the overnight hours. This will bring widespread strong-to-severe storms to our area. 2″ diameter hail, scattered straight line damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes will be possible with this round. This will also increase the risk of localized flash flooding in areas that see multiple rounds of storms. If you live in a low-lying and flood front area, you need to stay alert for the potential for flash flooding.
This line of storms will be exiting Thursday morning. Far southeastern Kentucky could see a few severe storms early in the day on Thursday ahead of a passing cold front. Most of the central Kentucky will dry out heading into Thursday afternoon. Cooler air will move in to close out the workweek and continue through Mother’s Day weekend.
Stay with the ABC 36 Storm Team for more updates.
ABC 36 HOUR FORECAST
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy with PM storms. Highs in the low 80s.
TUESDAY NIGHT: Storms early, mostly cloudy. Lows in the 60s.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny early, strong storms late. Highs in the mid-80s.
