Increasing threat of tornadic storms overnight
Multiple clusters of storms one over middle Tennessee near Nashville and other over eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee are prompting tornado warnings and some of the storms are showing signs of...
View Articlenumerous reports of flooding in Bowling green
- campbell lane - college.st - 10th avenue are three of numerous reports tonight from STN’s flood survey at 1 am. Turn around don’t drown. A line of severe thunderstorms with numerous warnings both...
View ArticleFlooding main concern
It’s taken a while but the thunderstorms along the leading edge of rain band have moved east of Bowling green. Rainfall totals have been over 9 inches at the mesonet site with the likelihood of...
View ArticleFLOOD EMERGENCY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH TONIGHT… PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN THAT BEGAN EARLY SATURDAY MORNING…HAVE CONTINUED TODAY AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING....
View ArticleBetter week ahead
After a soggy weekend to put it lightly, we should dry out nicely over the Mid-South with a great week shaping up. (more…)
View ArticleContinued nice weather
It looks like this beautiful weather will continue to stick around at least for a couple more days. (more…)
View ArticleShot at storms tonight
Tonight the Mid-South has the potential of seeing some thunderstorms, a few of which may be severe. (more…)
View ArticleNext system progressing our way…
High pressure has dominated much of the weekend. With dry (more…)
View ArticleHit and Miss…
The pattern doesn’t seem to be changing much, with several pieces of energy traveling through the longwave trof, keeping slight chances of precipitation for the area through much of remaining work...
View ArticleScattered showers and storms for the weekend…
Boundary related to the low pressure center along the Ohio River will push south, providing lift to create some nice thunderstorms today. (more…)
View ArticleInfo to follow our WKU field methods class as they track storms in the plains
Over the next two weeks this class of WKU met students will track storms across the great plains and you can follow along using the links below. Not much in terms of hazardous weather is expected soon...
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May 21st recap and update on the field methods class in the plains
We start one week ago yesterday (May 21st), their second day out covering storms, we had our own event here in Kentucky. Enough instability more than what was predicted allowed thunderstorms to...
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2010 Summer & Hurricane Forecast
Write-up is for Kentucky, maps are national based. First let’s take a look at the analogs, past years that had similar conditions to this one heading into the summer. 2007, 2005, 1998 and 1995. -...
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Overnight derecho worth watching
A large complex of severe storms has formed to our north and west with numerous warnings for large hail and 70 mph winds. Thunderstorm complexs like this one are fast movers and can cover a lot of area...
View ArticleThunderstorms staying north so far
Our mcs thunderstorm complex worth watching dissipated overnight but is still bringing some thunderstorms to northernKentucky this morning. This boundary should stay north of Bowling Green today which...
View Articlesevere thunderstorm watch till 8 pm
The second mcs to our northwest has refired this afternoon to produce numerous thunderstorms just to the northwest of our region. These storms are developing rapidly this afternoon and will continue to...
View Articleanother day another severe thunderstorm watch till 8pm
The same frontal boundary which has been in place since Wednesday will again be the trigger for scattered to numerous thunderstorms late this afternoon and evening. LI values are in the extremely...
View Article14 day forecast
Here is an overview of the expected weather the next two weeks. If severe weather is expected ( most likely middle of next week if at all) or the tropics become more active another update may be needed...
View ArticleRainfall record 6/4/10
Updated weekend forecast 6/9/10 1. Leftovers of the front dying out over the region today will lift northward throughout the week allowing for more muggy and hot air to stream back north into our...
View Articlehigh heat index values today (6/11/10)
heat index values both at the mesonet site and at the airport have been running in the 95-100 range this afternoon. This is thanks in large part to a very moist atmosphere( dewpoints in the mid 70′s)...
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