Two severe threats on the way

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Friday morning forecast!

  LEXINGTON, Kentucky (WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Friday everyone and welcome to the weekend. After starting the day with some dense fog, sunshine will be taking over this afternoon with highs finally returning back where we should be for this time of year into the upper 80s. Saturday will feature high temperatures climbing back into the upper 80s to…

Dry and warm to close out the week!

Enjoy it as our unsettled weather returns this weekend with scattered storms back in the picture.

With a frontal boundary dropping through the commonwealth on Thursday a few spots saw scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly during the morning hours and mostly down south. With plenty of clouds around yet again, afternoon highs were held in check in many locations, topping out into the low 80s, which is roughly 5 degrees below average for this time of…

An active forecast continues

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Thursday morning forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky ( WTVQ – ABC 36): Good Thursday morning everyone, our day is starting off with a good deal of rain and storms across the area. But we will start to clear everything out by later today setting us up for a August summer-like Friday with temperatures in the upper 80s and sunshine. Saturday has the potential to…

Storms return before we dry out to end the week

Heavy rain and gusty winds are possible as the storms roll through Wednesday night and into Thursday.

We’ve enjoyed a couple of fairly quiet days through the mid-week weather-wise here in Central and Eastern Kentucky as weak high pressure drifted through the region. Thanks to a good bit of cloudiness mixed in with some sunshine, afternoon highs were held in check a bit but were still comfortable for early August with temperatures topping out into the low…

Man charged with murder of 3-year-old indicted on another murder charge of 6-month-old

MANCHESTER, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Whitley County man who’s charged with murdering a 3-year-old was indicted again last week in Clay County for allegedly murdering a 6-month-old. Jordan Taylor was charged with a second murder and indicted on Aug. 3. He’s accused of killing a 6-month-old in Clay County in July 2020. Previously, Taylor was in jail in Whitley County…

Escaped Madison Co. inmate back in jail

RICHMOND, Ky. (WTVQ) — A Madison County inmate who escaped from custody on Monday is back in jail. According to the Madison County Detention Center website, Thomas Crowe was booked into the jail at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Crowe is now charged with escape. He allegedly fled from a detention bus that was heading to a rehabilitation facility. Crowe, 31, was…

Ky. man fled after investigation into relationship with 17-year-old; arrested in Tennessee

COLUMBIA, Ky. (WTVQ) — A 26-year-old Kentucky man was found in Tennessee after he allegedly ran for being investigated for having a relationship with a 17-year-old student. An investigation into Jonathan Berryman’s relationship with a 17-year-old girl began in March 2022 after an Adair County school resource officer was informed of the situation, according to Columbia police. After Berryman found…

Heavy rain and storms move in tonight

Meteorologist Jordan Smith has a look at your Wednesday forecast!

  Lexington, Kentucky (WTVQ ABC 36): Good Wednesday everyone, we are starting the day with some patchy fog and will end it with heavy rain and storms. But in the middle of that is sunshine and temperatures hitting the mid 80s. We run a low end risk of some severe storms with gusty to damaging winds the main concern for…

Rain and storm chances ramp up again late Wednesday and into Thursday

Another complex of thunderstorms could bring additional rain and storms to the area

We enjoyed a fairly pleasant Tuesday across Central and Eastern Kentucky as weak high pressure build into the area. With some scattered clouds around and even a stray shower or two popping up down south, afternoon highs were held into the upper 70s to low 80s, which is a good 8-10 degrees below average for this time in August, Humidity…

School districts face teacher, bus driver shortages ahead of new school year

JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky (WTVQ)- It’s an exciting time for schools across the Commonwealth as the first day of the new year is drawing near. Some have already welcomed students into classrooms. “Everybody shows up and we get to see all the exciting faces coming in to our buildings,” says Matt Moore, the superintendent of Jessamine County Schools. Each year, districts…