Tornado Watch 4/24/10

[nWo]

A Tornado Watch has been issued for much of Western Kentucky until 9 pm cdt. This includes Louisville, Owensboro, Elizabethtown, Campbellsville, Bowling Green, and Hopkinsville.

[TheDeuce]

It's really looking like we may be in for a long evening weather wise here in the Commonwealth. Everyone please be safe tonight.

[nWo]

This reminds me some of the outbreak of 1974. I hope I'm wrong though.

 

 

 

Kentucky Weather Center

[nWo]

There are Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for most of extreme Western Kentucky right now. This around the Paducah area.

[TheDeuce]

Looking at the radar in the western part of the state, there seems to be individual storms firing up... Not good.

[nWo]

One thing I forgot to add to my original post. This is not your usual Tornado Watch. It is a PDS Watch. This means it is a particularly dangerous situation. The National Weather Service rarely issues a watch like this.

[nWo]

It is starting to rain here in Richmond with some thunder.

[nWo]

National Weather Service briefing

 

Audio

[TheDeuce]

Thunder and light rain starting in Frankfort.

[nWo]

The worst of the storms won't be reaching Kentucky until later this evening. This rain is just the beginning.

[nWo]

Chris Bailey's Kentucky Weather Center has some great radar images of this event.

 

 

 

Kentucky Weather Center

[nWo]

There is now a Tornado Warning for the Hopkinsville area.

 

Tornado Warning

[nWo]

This is a very intense line of storms with tornado warnings stretching from Hopkinsville area down across the entire state of Tennessee.

[nWo]

There is a tornado on the ground near Pembroke or 9 miles northeast of Oak Grove. It is moving northeast at 45 mph.

[nWo]

This storm is moving toward Russellville and Bowling Green.