WYMT Severe Weather Coverage May 26, 2026

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:04]Okay. So, you're going to get a push notification too from the WMT First Alert weather app. Uh, for those of you on TV as well as now our social media platform and WIMT Plus, I want to go ahead and bring you up to speed as to what is going on and why we are breaking into programming. Uh, we do have a tornado warning. A tornado warning is in effect until 7:45. This is for portions of Menafe County and portions of Powell County. This is moving to the northeast at around 20 mph. If you're near the Lucky Stop area, if you're near the Means area, Rothell, Frenchburg, over towards the Sudith area, uh this is going to be heading in your direction, make sure you uh seek shelter. Get into the lowest level of your house, whether it's a basement um or the lowest level away from windows.

[00:00:50]If you don't have a basement, uh an interior hallway, make sure you put a lot of layers between you and the outdoors, whether it's a bike helmet, uh whether it's a mattress, blankets, what have you. Make sure you are staying uh protected. Again, the big thing, make sure you stay away from windows. This is Doppler radar indicated. We'll go ahead and go back over towards uh the Stanton area uh using our velocity mode. And this is what we're looking at. We're looking at this little green and red little couplet right here. I'm going to go ahead and pinpoint very tight over towards the Stanton area because this is concerning right here. Uh where's my teleustrator? There it is. This right here is very concerning because you got that green going towards the radar right here and you've got the red going away from the radar right here and you get this little couplet right here. So, we are picking up some rotation on live pinpoint Doppler radar. Again, this is to the north of the Stanton area. Uh, let's go ahead and pinpoint and move the map over just a little bit. Uh, this is near the Fagan area. Uh, we'll go ahead and move up a little bit over towards the Jeffersonville area. This is for the Rothell area. This does include the Frenchburg area as well. Uh, you can see some roads near the Indian Creek Road area. looks like near the Hawkins Branch Road area, East Fork Road area. Again, you can see there's Means, there's Jeffersonville. Again, over towards the Clay City area. But again, this is what we're keeping an eye on right here is this little rotation just to the east of the Waltersville area. I want to go ahead and uh put on our debris tracker.

[00:02:32]There it is. There's our debris tracker.

[00:02:34]I want to see if we're seeing anything.

[00:02:35]We're not seeing anything being picked up out of this system. Um, in terms of debris, what we would look for is this really bright blue dot on the map, and we're not seeing that right now. So, there's some uh good news there. No debris is being picked up. But again, if you're looking at this map, we're seeing this rotation right here. This is that rotation uh just to the north of Stant to the east of Waltersville. This is moving to the northeast at around 20 miles hour. I'm going to step off the map real quick. I'm going to look and see what the National Weather Service office is saying in terms of the chat line and see what is going on in terms of this uh system here. Uh we are seeing it looks like a little bit of hail being picked up with this. Let me pull up our hail tracker.

[00:03:27]See if we can call this up. uh because it looks like we are seeing something coming out uh on another radar source I'm looking at in terms of hail. Let's see. Here we go. Let me call that up real quick. And while that's coming up, I'm going to pull up the chat line here and see uh kind of what is going on with this and see if they're issuing anything. Um so yeah, there looks like there's an image.

[00:03:51]Actually, I'm going to call this up because we have access to this. Uh near the Frenchburg area, let me see if I can call this up.

[00:04:05]Um because it looks like near the Clay City area, it looks like the Kentucky Mezone camera was uh showing a little bit of rotation. So, uh, that's the reason why they issued that tornado warning. Uh, does have weak rotation on one of the tilts as well. So, again, we'll be monitoring this very, uh, very close as we go into the next several minutes.

[00:04:31]Again, that tornado warning uh, does expire uh, at 7:45.

[00:04:38]So, again, we'll be monitoring this very close. It's over towards the Jeffersonville area near the Pow Valley area. Um, I'm going to go ahead and pinpoint this system again and I'm going to keep an eye on the rotation with this system because that's something uh that caught my eye earlier on the past few scans. And I'm going to go ahead and pinpoint very very tight with this system right there. And again, this is that signature couplet that we see all the time when we're talking about um tornado warnings and stuff like that is you get that green going towards the radar, you get the red going away from the radar.

[00:05:23]And so where you get this little area right here, this little couplet, I'm going to walk back to the screen.

[00:05:31]You start getting this little area right here. So green is going towards the radar, the red is going away from the radar. So, it's this little area right here, that little rotate, that little couplet, that's where it's rotating at.

[00:05:42]And we are getting some weak rotation with this, but still enough for the National Weather Service office in Jackson to trigger that tornado warning.

[00:05:49]Again, this is just to the east of the Clay City area to the north of Stanton.

[00:05:54]Um, I know we just got off Memorial Day weekend. I know everybody's kind of getting back in the swing of things. Um, so a lot of people are still kind of out and about, but right now, uh, if you are in this area, if you're near Meny County, uh, right now, this is your first alert. You need to be in your shel your basement, your shelter, um, lowest level of your house, away from windows.

[00:06:16]You need to be in an interior hallway.

[00:06:19]If you do not have a basement, uh, let me go ahead and put this information back on here for you. Um, if you are in a mobile home area, please get out and find shelter elsewhere. That's the most dangerous place to be in uh during a tornado warning. So again, this is for uh Bath, Metaphy, Montgomery, and Pow, Metafi, Powell County are in the WMT viewing area, which is why we are going wall towall with this tornado warning.

[00:06:46]Look how many people are impacted right now. 3,519 people. We are picking up hail about 3/4 of an inch in diameter here. Let me go ahead and reset for those of you who are just now tuning in.

[00:07:00]And um one thing I I do is I do like to reset and kind of get our bearings straight about every five minutes or so.

[00:07:06]So that way when somebody new coming in, they want to know what's going on.

[00:07:09]Everybody's on the same page. So quick recap. Right here is that tornado warning. This is for Meny County as well as portions of POW County. And again, this goes until 7:45. We're going to go ahead and zoom back in and we're going to pinpoint over towards the Meny and Pow County area. Let me move the map up just a little bit here and I'll put the latest storm track on this because this is moving to the northeast at around 20 miles per hour.

[00:07:39]We'll go ahead and put the track on.

[00:07:41]There we go. So means around 728, 726, that's the ETA. Cornwell around 7:36, Rothwell ETA is about 7:38, Frenchburg about 749. Uh Clear Creek Furnace area uh right around the top of the hour. So again, we are going to be monitor monitoring this very close. This thing has had a history of producing some uh low-level weak rotation as noted here on our velocity scan here. So this is our storm relative velocity. Let me look at the base velocity real quick and we'll see kind of what is going on here. Let's see. There's our base velocity. Yeah.

[00:08:20]Again, so you can again see that couplet with both. So we are seeing both on our base velocity and our storm relative velocity that rotation that's just to the north and to the northeast of Stanton. This is pushing its way uh looks like to the south of the Frenchburg area. So, if you're in the Frenchburg area, here's your first alert that that rotation uh could be heading in your direction. I want to go ahead and pinpoint back in uh so we can get some city names on with this system again. So, there's Stanton. We're going to go ahead and move the map. There's Clay City. You have the right fork right fork creek road area that's going to be impacted by this rotation within the next few minutes. We'll go ahead and move the map over. Um there's Hawkins Branch Road. Uh here's the Peter Trace Road area. So again, these are roads and labels. Uh that is just to the north and west of where this rotation is and that's pushing in your guys' direction.

[00:09:20]So if you're on the Peter Trace Road area, the Indian Creek Road area, here's the Frenchburg area as well. There's the looks like the Becky Jane Road area, uh Amos Ridge Road area. So, if you're in one of those streets that I just mentioned, uh there's some rotation just to the west of you, and it's this right here that we are keeping an eye on. So, what we're monitoring here, and uh I do like to kind of briefly make mention uh as to what is going on. Let me move the map over just a little bit more here.

[00:09:52]Let me get my teleustrator up real quick. And uh I'll show you what I'm looking at here. So, again, this is that classic signature of rotation. And you get that green going towards the radar.

[00:10:02]So the radar beam out of Jackson is right here. The green's going towards the radar. The red is going away from the radar. And so what this means is this right here is where you're starting to pick up that rotation. So I'm going to step off the screen real quick. I'm going to look at the notes from the National Weather Service. Kind of see what's going on in terms of uh anything active.

[00:10:32]All right. So, as of right now, I don't see anything out of this.

[00:10:42]Uh, we did get a report. Somebody asked on our social media platform if uh this was the one that went over uh Berea. I know there was a report [snorts] near Berea earlier of some rotation. I'm not sure. I wasn't I was on the newscast at the time, so I'm not sure if this is the same cell. Um, but I do know there was some rotation. Clay City, Kentucky, we have people watching right now. Thank you guys so much uh for tuning in. Um, so again, right now I'm going over the National Weather Service office uh chat and as of right now, I don't see anything. We are seeing it says the appears the cell could be turning right.

[00:11:26]National weather service employee reporting uh PS size hail in Jeffersonville right now. Rotation is riding the POW and Montgomery County line. Uh latest scan shows further tightening north of Stanton just to the south of the Montgomery County lines. So uh that is the latest chat uh information from the National Weather Service office. And while we're doing that, I'm going to go ahead and check our uh social media platforms and see kind of what's going on here. See if anybody has anything, any reports or what have you.

[00:12:01]Okay, so quick recap. We'll go back over the map. I'll step on the wall again. We do have a tornado warning. This is a tornado warning in effect for about another 25 minutes. This is for portions of Meny County as well as portions of Pal County. As mentioned at 7:00, we were seeing a line of rotating storms uh forming along portions of Meny County as well as Bath County and Montgomery County. This is moving to the northeast at 20 mph. Here's Jeffersonville right now. Here's the Stanton area. And this right here is the reason why the uh tornado warning was issued. It's because of this right here. We are seeing that rotation right here being picked up just to the north of Stanton and it's still pretty tight. Here's the Clay City area.

[00:12:50]I know we've got people on social media watching from Clay City. Thank you so much uh for tuning in. This is now to the east of the Clay City area. So again, here's that rotation that we're keeping an eye on right here. that green is going towards the radar and the red right here is going away from the radar.

[00:13:10]So that's why um they had that tornado warning out is because we are seeing this rotation right here. Let me go ahead and put some street names on here.

[00:13:19]We'll go ahead and move the map over. So again, there's Clay City. Uh if you're over near the Pumpkin Hollow Road area, we'll go ahead and put the uh measuring tool on here. And uh let me see. I'll have to step off screen and put that on here. Uh, I'll give you an ETA about how many miles that is away uh from the Pumpkin Hollow Road area.

[00:13:42]So, let me put this back on here. And you're looking at around about 3 4 miles away. So, if you are in the uh Fagan area, if you're near the Hatton Ridge Road area, again, this is for portions of Metife and portions of Powell County, uh if you're in uh the Haten Ridge area, the Indian Creek area. Uh looks like over towards the Hawkins branch area, there's the uh city of Means, the Peter Trace Road area, the Roth area. There's some rotation just to the south and the southwest of you. Uh, looks like National Weather Service is now reporting wall cloud reported by National Weather Service employee driving east on the Mountain Parkway through portions of Powell County.

[00:14:29]So again, this tornado warning uh is going to stay in effect for the next uh 22 minutes. And again, we're going to stay on here monitoring this very close uh as we go on. Now, uh, I'm not seeing any I'm not looking at the chat right now, but I'm sure we're going to be getting a lot of what about this county, what about that county. The only two counties I'm going to be talking about right now are Meny County and Pal County. If I'm not mentioning you guys right now, you guys are in the clear.

[00:15:00]The only two counties I will be mentioning again, Meny County and Pal County. If you are in Meny and POW, you need to be paying very close attention uh to this system because we are seeing some rotation uh with this area.

[00:15:16]So again, we are going to monitor this.

[00:15:18]This goes for another uh 21 minutes.

[00:15:21]This is another uh again another 21 minutes uh as of right now. Let me pull up the latest information uh here on the National Weather Service info. Again, um main impacts, flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Uh damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur.

[00:15:45]Tree damage is likely. Again, this is now to the northeast of Stanton. This is going to push its way near the Frenchburg area and it looks like it's going to stay to the south of Jeffersonville. So, they just updated this tornado warning. You can see how a lot of it has been trimmed off. So, for those of you who are in the Clay City area, the Verden area, uh you are now out of the uh tornado warning. For those of you still in the Means area, the Rothwell area, the Frenchburg area, you are still in the tornado warning. So, this is uh a new issuance right here.

[00:16:24]So, again, notice how it's been scaled back just a little bit.

[00:16:30]So again, this is the latest from the National Weather Service office at 7:23.

[00:16:34]Severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near Bean or north of Stanton. This is moving east at 20 mph.

[00:16:43]Uh weather spotters have reported a rotating wall cloud and P-sized hail. Uh again, main impact flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. If you're in a mobile home and you're under that tornado warning, you need to be seeking shelter elsewhere and getting out of there. Uh you need to be in the lowest level of your house.

[00:17:02]You need to be in a basement. You need to be in an interior closet or a hallway away from windows. Make sure you have a lot of protection on your head as well.

[00:17:11]Okay. So, this is going to include the Jeffersonville area, the Taber, and the Frenchburg area right now. So, again, we'll put a quick overview on here. Let me go back to live Pinpoint Doppler radar and we'll go ahead and put our information back up here. Uh so again, this is for Metife, Montgomery, and POW.

[00:17:31]Bath County is now out of the tornado warning. This is still for Menafe and Pow County as well as a little bit of Montgomery County.

[00:17:40]Uh let's see. I'm looking at the information from the National Weather Service chat. Uh looks like latest scan showing tightening north of Stanton just to east or sorry to the south of the Montgomery County line. This is crossing the uh Kentucky 213 corridor. Uh it says it appears the cell could be turning right. National Weather Service uh employees reported P-size hail near the Jeffersonville area right now. So we'll go ahead and put our hail tracker on there and see if we can verify. Yeah, we got some hail uh being picked up right here with this cell. So there's to the south of Jeffersonville, south of the Stanton area. Um Ba County is now out of it. And one thing um to note too, and this is coming from, uh the National Weather Service office, uh if anybody has had any reports of anything, uh please send them to the National Weather Service office in via social media or you can send them to me uh via social media and I will pass that along to the National Weather Service office as well. But again, the big story right now, we'll go ahead and reset, kind of get our bearings straight. Uh we do have that tornado warning in effect uh until 7:45.

[00:18:53]And I'm going to go ahead and step back on the screen. Uh this is for uh portions of Meny County and portions of um POW County.

[00:19:05]All right, so there's look at live pinpoint Doppler radar. Again, there's that tornado warning. I'm going to go ahead and step on the screen just kind of get our bearings straight as to what is going on. We are seeing a lot of lightning being picked up right now on live pinpoint Doppler radator.

[00:19:19]We'll go ahead and move the map over and we'll go ahead and pinpoint in over towards portions of Metife and Pal County. Right here is where that tornado warning is. And we'll go ahead uh now earlier we did have a midpoint update.

[00:19:33]So it trimmed portions of POW County out uh portions of Meny County out I should say. and uh all of BA County. So, BA County is out in the clear, but again, we still have Meny and Pow County. This does include Frenchburg. This is north of Stanton. I want to go ahead and pinpoint over uh this system again, and I want to turn on our velocity because we've been keeping an eye on this right here. This is the main component right here. This is that rotation that we've been keeping an eye on here on live pinpoint Doppler radar. and what we're looking at. And again, you can kind of see right here what's been going on. There's your green and there's your red. So, this is the new scan. It's right here now. So, it's really just to the south and southwest of Frenchburg Stanton. Uh, this is now to the east of you. So, let's go ahead. I'm going to step off screen. I want to kind of show you how we got to this point and go over the past few scans and we'll do some analysis and kind of see uh what's going on. So you can kind of see the past several rotations or past several uh frames how it started to get its act together. There's 7:00, there's 7:05, there's 710. So see how it started to get together. Now it's starting to take more of a right hook. And it says uh storm appears to be cycling near where Metife, POW, and Montgomery County meet.

[00:21:00]So again, we are monitoring this uh very close here in the First Alert Weather Center over the next several minutes.

[00:21:07]This again, this does expire uh at around 7:45.

[00:21:13]And I'm going to go ahead and zoom into this while I'm here and get some more street names on. And I'm going to put the street level on here. And I'm going to focus it based on where that rotation is.

[00:21:29]And so we'll start it right here. We're going to go ahead and move it up and over this way. So Frenchburg area ETA is about 753.

[00:21:37]The Maribba area right at the top of the hour. So again, if you are near the Hawkins Branch Road area, you've got rotation right now right over this road.

[00:21:47]Uh you need to be in your basement. You should have been there anyway, but you need to be in your basement, lowest level of your house, interior hallway, away from windows if you're in a mobile home. um you need to get out. This thing is meaning business. Like it is it is starting to rotate here. Uh it's going to be near the Cornwell area and near the Frenchburg area. Uh looks like Indian Creek Road area looks like East Fork Road area is now under the uh tornado warning as well. So again, this is going to go for another 15 minutes.

[00:22:19]I'm going to go ahead and kind of pinpoint. I want to do some analysis here with this kind of see what's going on here. Let's look and see what we have in terms of hail with this. Uh because we were seeing some hail earlier uh being picked up with this system. Uh let me try that again here. Uh and what I want to do I'll get to that in a second.

[00:22:38]But right now I'm not seeing anything in terms of debris. So there's some good news there. Uh what we are looking at though is that broad rotation that's being picked up with this. And what we like to use here is uh we're going to use our velocity mode. And again, we've been focusing on this. There's your rotation right here just to the west of the Fagan area uh near the Cornwall area near Hawkins Branch Road. Uh so this is our base velocity. Now the storm relative velocity mode uh is going to kind of verify this as well. Again, you can see that little couplet right here that we are monitoring uh here in the weather center. So again, if you're in the Indian Creek Road area, the Hawkins Branch Road area, the East Fork Road area, this is your first alert. You are still under that tornado warning. You need to be in your uh basement. You need to be in your lowest level of your house away from windows. Uh this system is meaning business as of right now. I'm going to step off the screen real quick and see what's going on here. Uh on the National Weather Service thing, I'm not seeing anything new coming through.

[00:23:48]We are getting some social media reports right where the three counties meet.

[00:23:51]Rainy and windy did see some circulation. Haven't seen anything fully formed yet. Um so that's going to be interesting to see here. I'm not seeing anything new in the National Weather Service chat line. Uh we are going to go through and see if we're seeing any hail with this system.

[00:24:11]Uh we did get some reports of hail uh from a National Weather Service employee looks like just to the north of the Stanton area. So again, um we're going to keep an eye on this for the next few minutes. This will expire at 7:45.

[00:24:31]And I'm going to go ahead and do a quick reset. We'll kind of get our bearings straight and see what is going on. Just so for those of you who are just now tuning in, uh, you're going to notice every few minutes, I'm just going to reset the map and just kind of relay the information over again. Just so those of you who are tuning in just now kind of know what's going on. So, we do have that tornado warning in effect. There it is on live pinpoint Doppler radar. Uh, this is for portions of Meni and Powell County. Right now, we have about 535 people impacted. This is Doppler radar indicated. And again, you can see right here uh on our scan that rotation. Uh basically what you're looking for is that green and red. And we have a new tornado warning out as of right now. Let me pull this up. This is a new tornado warning. This includes Frenchburg.

[00:25:19]Uh this is from Metife, Montgomery, and POW County it looks like. Let me pull this up. This goes and Wolf County. Wolf County is now under this too. Um, Meny, Morgan, Powell, and Wolf County. This goes into effect until 8:15.

[00:25:39]Uh, National Weather Service office is saying the storm is cycling and has good structure. So, it was issued downstream.

[00:25:44]And I do agree with this because the past several scans that we've been looking at.

[00:25:50]Um, that rotation has been very very visible there. So, I I completely agree with this. So now Frenchburg uh tornado warning is in effect until 8:15 p.m. Uh from the National Weather Service office 7:32, severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado is located near the Fagan area or 7 miles northeast of Stanton. This is moving due east at 20 mph.

[00:26:18]If you're near the uh Daniel Boone or the campsite in the Indian Creek area of the Daniel Boone National Forest area, that will be near that area around 740 Frenchburg. Your ETA is about 7:45 Frenchburg. You need to be getting in your lowest level right now. Whether it's a basement, interior hallway, uh if you're in a mobile home, you need to exit and find shelter somewhere else.

[00:26:43]And the Maribba area at around 750. The other locations in the path of this tornatic thunderstorm is going to include the Denniston area and the Wellington area. So again, I'm going to repeat this again because this is brand new information coming in from the National Weather Service office. This is a new tornado warning for Menafe, Morgan, Powell, and Wolf County until 8:15 p.m. Now, at 7:32, severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was moving near the Fagan area, 7 miles northeast of Stanton. Uh, this is moving to the east at around 20 mph.

[00:27:25]Again, flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.

[00:27:30]Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely.

[00:27:34]Again, if you're near the uh Indian Creek area of the Daniel Boon National Forest, your ETA is going to be about 7:40. If you're in the Frenchburg area, about 7:45.

[00:27:47]And if you're in the Mariba area at around 850. So again, something we're going to monitor very close here in the First Alert Weather Center. Uh I'm going to go ahead and put a storm track on this. We'll go ahead and step on the wall and I'm going to go ahead and zoom back in to this system and we'll see why they extended this tornado warning. It's because of this right here. We are still seeing that broad rotation being picked up. If you're in the Fagan area right now, that rotation is right over you.

[00:28:16]You need to be uh getting or hunkering down, I should say, because it's right over you. Frenchburg, you need to be in your basement or lowest level of your house. So, we'll go ahead and move the map over a little bit.

[00:28:29]If you're near uh the Dan area, if you're near the Maria area, uh if you're near the uh Palm Pomeroton area, Valeria area, uh East Bowman Road, uh looks like Highway 882, Highway 1589, uh looks like over towards the East Fork, Indian Creek Road area, we we mentioned that earlier. Indian Creek Road area, Pumpkin Hollow Road area is now seeing that rotation as of right now. Now, this is to the south of the Cornwell area. Again, the Indian Creek Road area and the Frenchburg area will be uh impacted there. I'm going to go ahead real quick. I'm going to step off the screen and I'm going to call up uh a couple of Kentucky Mezone cameras just so we can kind of see what is uh going on. and and the National Weather Service just received a video of what appears to be a funnel cloud. Uh looks like near Highway 213 in Powell County. So again, um looks like Highway 213 near Powell County, there was a report of that uh funnel cloud.

[00:29:40]So let's go over. I want to show you kind of what's going on here. We'll kind of give you the tour. This is seen right now in Pal County near the Stanton area and we'll go over towards the let me see.

[00:30:02]Yeah, so that's the only one I have. Um Powell County is in like I said this is the one that we're going to keep an eye on there. That's near Stanton. Um right now temperatures are in the mid to upper 70s. We'll go ahead and go back over to uh First Alert Live Pinpoint Doppler radar. We now have that new tornado warning out until 8:15. We still have the one out for 7:45. We'll kind of go over both of those real quick. Um let me move the map over to the first one.

[00:30:32]So, this first one right here for another few more minutes. Uh this one is for uh just north of Stanton, south of Jeffersonville.

[00:30:42]This one will be allowed to expire at 7:45.

[00:30:47]There's an overlap that includes the city of Frenchburg as well as Denniston, Palm Royon as well as the Dan area. This includes the Rat the Ratliff Creek Road area, the Artville Road area, Highway 1569, State Highway 2071.

[00:31:05]uh says, "Okay, so they are looks like they are going to expire this tornado warning within the next few minutes."

[00:31:12]That's per the National Weather Service office in Jackson. They say expiring the old warning as it was replaced by the new warning.

[00:31:21]So once that warning goes out or shows up or goes away from my map, [snorts] um then we'll focus on this one. As the National Weather Service office in Jackson just said, our main area concern right now is the Fagan area. This is heading towards Frenchburg. Again, this is heading towards the Frenchburg area.

[00:31:39]If you know people in Frenchburg, give them a phone call. Let them know that there is rotation heading in their direction and that they need to be in their basement or the lowest level away from Windows. If they are in a mobile home, they need to get out and go somewhere else. That's safe. This is about about five or six miles away from the Frenchburg area. Again, this rotation that we are keeping an eye on right now is about five or six miles away [snorts] from the Frenchburg area. And we'll go ahead and highlight this. And what we're looking at here on live pinpoint Doppler radar is this area of rotation. This is our uh velocity mode. And what you're looking at is that green and red couplet. The green means the wind is going towards the radar. The red means it's going away from the radar. So you start getting that little couplet right here. That's where you're seeing that rotation being picked up. And again, this is making its way towards the Frenchburg area. So real quick, while we're on here, I'm going to go through I'm going to do some analysis here.

[00:32:40]Going to look at the debris signature.

[00:32:42]Not seeing anything in terms of debris.

[00:32:43]So as long as we don't see a big bright blue dot on this map, um, we'll be okay. Once we start seeing some bright blue on this map, that's when I'm going to start getting a little concerned.

[00:32:58]All right, so let's go ahead and take a look here now again at the radar scan.

[00:33:01]We'll go ahead and put a time lapse on this to kind of give you an idea as to what's going on and how we got to where we are. Again, this is moving uh to the north and northeast or sorry to the east now at around 20 miles per hour. We'll go ahead and put a lapse on this and you can kind of see how we got to where we are. Again, it's near the Rothell area, near the Fagan area, over towards the Indian Creek Road area. Here's Frenchburg. Here's the Clinton Stiltner Road area. Uh that is under that new tornado warning until 8:15. We'll go ahead and uh stop this. We'll go ahead and move the map a little bit farther east.

[00:33:37]And again, you can see over towards the Cub Run Road area near Highway 460.

[00:33:41]There's Fletcher Ridge Road. Again, if you're in one of these areas right here, the Betty Gapridge Road area, the Mariva Road area, Scranton, uh over towards uh the Archville area, the Dan area, you guys are under that tornado warning right now. It looks like it's quiet, but that system is just to the west of you.

[00:33:59]We'll go ahead and move the map over.

[00:34:00]You can see this is going to make a beline uh for the Frenchburg area. So, if you are in the Frenchburg area, this is your first alert. You need to be uh in your basement or your lowest level away from windows. And it looks like we are getting a new update uh to this tornado warning. I'm going to step off screen real quick and see what this update is because it's flickering at me.

[00:34:22]So, we've got something new coming in uh with this system.

[00:34:29]Let's see what this is here.

[00:34:35]All right. Pow County. Pow County. If you're in if you are in POW County watching this, you are now out of the tornado warning. That is the uh change here at 7:41. Severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over the Fagan area. This is near Frenchburg. This is moving to the east at 20 m per hour. Frenchburg, it's pretty much knocking on your doorstep uh right now. And we'll go ahead and put this on. This is what we're gonna be watching over the next several minutes is this uh rotation right here. We're going to watch this as it goes uh through the Frenchburg area because that's where that area of rotation is.

[00:35:13]Uh while we're doing that, I'm going to go ahead and read this uh new statement.

[00:35:18]So, [clears throat] Frenchburg, uh it's going to be near you within the next couple minutes. You need to be in your basement, lowest level of your house. Uh you need to have your cell phone charged. You need to be watching this either on WMT Plus or on our streaming channel. That way you can listen to my voice and we'll walk through this as we go through the next several minutes. So again, make sure you're in a safe place with your mobile phone. Make sure you have wt plus or wt.com, the wimt weather app, what have you. We're streaming on all of our platforms as well. So that way you know exactly what's going on.

[00:35:56]And then when everything is clear, I will let you know that everything is clear.

[00:36:01]Um again this is going to be near Frenchburg within the next few seconds.

[00:36:05]Uh we are getting a new picture in. This is from Montgomery County going into POW County.

[00:36:13]It says the cell was not tornatic but they are getting some pictures of a cold cold air type funnel with this system.

[00:36:21]So we are getting some pictures in from the National Weather Service office. So again, uh this is going to be near the Denniston area, the Wellington area, uh the Korea area, as well as the Big Woods area. And that thunder, that tornado warning that was in effect earlier, the first one has now expired. So we only have one left here.

[00:36:41]So again, we're going to keep an eye on this one right here. Again, the tornado concern is for Meny County. The main concern right now is for Meny County.

[00:36:51]This does include the Frenchburg area.

[00:36:53]And right now, as mentioned, this is what we are monitoring. That green and this red couplet right here. You're getting this rotation that's right here. And is around the Frenchburg area.

[00:37:08]So, we're going to monitor this very, very close as we roll into the next several minutes. We'll go ahead and put some street names on here as well.

[00:37:15]There's the Indian Creek Road area. Uh there's the Bible Camp Lane area.

[00:37:19]There's the Kendrick Ridge area, Myers Fork Road Road, Fletcher Ridge Road. If you're one of those roads right here, um I'll go ahead and step on the screen real quick and kind of highlight some places and some street names.

[00:37:35]So again, this is the Frenchburg area right here. This is the Maribba Road area. There's Myers Fork Road. There's the Fletcher Ridge Road area. There's the Kendrick Ridge Road area. Uh looks like um you can't see that something Creek Road, Indian Creek Road it looks like there.

[00:37:53]Um and then of course here's the Fagan area. That rotation has now pushed its way to the east of the Fagan area, moving its way towards the Frenchburg area. Again, that rotation is just to the south of Rockwell. Uh if you are in Let's go ahead and give some all clears real quick while we're watching this.

[00:38:13]So, if you're in the Means area, if you're in Jeffersonville, if you are in Pal County, uh you guys are now in the clear. This is mainly for Meny County.

[00:38:22]And we'll go ahead and reset and kind of get our bearings straight as to what is going on. Again, here's live pinpoint Doppler radar. And the reason why we're on programming is because of this tornado warning right here. This is for portions of Menafe County. We'll go ahead and zoom or pinpoint in to this system right here.

[00:38:42]here. And again, you can see this is moving to the east at around 20 miles per hour. So, this is again for Menafe, Morgan, and portions of Wolf County.

[00:38:51]Let's go ahead and put our uh storm or uh storm tracker on here. Again, this is moving to the east at around 20 miles hour. So, we'll go and put the track out. Uh Frenchburg around 7:48, Dennon around 8:03, uh Korea around 811, Dan around 8:15. Uh looks like the Zag area 831 Yokum area if it holds together at around 8:37. So again this is moving to the east at 20 miles per hour. We have received reports of some funnel clouds uh from the National Weather Service office um over towards portions of Powell County and again over towards portions of um Montgomery County as well. So again, this is going right over Frenchburg right now. I'm going to go ahead and pinpoint in very very tight near Frenchburg. And we're going to go ahead and put our velocity tracker on here so we can see where that rotation is. So there's Frenchburg, there's Bryman Road area. Here's Indian Creek Road area. Uh looks like over towards the Stone Quiry Road area right now getting in on that thunderstorm activity.

[00:39:59]And yeah, that rotation is right over Frenchburg right now. You can see it right here. here. Matter of fact, I'll go ahead and highlight it for you. So, yeah, there's that rotation right here that we're looking at. You can see near the Indian Creek Road area. Again, there's Bryman Road area. There's the Clifton Road area that we are seeing u that rotation. The Scranton area, if you're near Scranton, here's your first alert. That rotation is just to the south and the southwest of you. If you're near the Maria area, if you're near the Artville area, if you're near Dan, if you're near Betty Gap Ridge Road, uh over towards the Singleton Branch Road area, uh Bird Ridge Road, over towards the Fletcher Ridge Road area, uh if I listed your street, you are under that tornado warning. If I just listed your city, you are also under that tornado warning. Again, that rotation is now right over uh Frenchburg down into the east fork of the Indian Creek Road area is just to the east of Rothwell.

[00:41:05]All right, I'm going to step off here real quick. We'll go ahead and check some notes to see what we have.

[00:41:12]Uh let's see. Rotation will be at top the community of Taber heading to the south side of Frenchburg.

[00:41:20]And there is also small hail likely going on in Menafe County as well. Uh so we are getting the hail report. We are getting uh that rotation report. We are getting some um reports out of Montgomery County and POW County that's not tornatic, but we are getting pictures of that uh cold air uh type funnel that's associated with that. So again, um something that we've been monitoring here over the next uh several hours. I'm going to check another source real quick.

[00:41:55]Just kind of get our bearings straight and see kind of what's going on here uh in terms of rotation.

[00:42:03]See if I can pull this up. And what I'm doing here is I'm looking to see if we're how high up this system's going.

[00:42:14]So, yeah, it looks like we're about 20 to 30,000 feet up. So, uh, basically what we're what I'm looking at off air is how high this is. That's going to tell me where that rotation is and if we're seeing any hail, which the hail has been verified here on live pinpoint Doppler radar. We'll go ahead and shift gears and we'll go back to that hail tracker real quick and I'll show you where that hail uh is uh being picked up at. It looks like it's near the Indian Creek Road area.

[00:42:44]It's right over Frenchburg. You can see right there is Frenchburg. Uh there's the Adams Branch Road area, the Amos Ridge Road area. Uh looks like Bible Camp Lane uh just to the north or sorry to the southwest of Bible Camp Lane. looks like it's going to push its way towards the Clifton Road area. So again, uh if you're in one of those streets, hail is being picked up. Let's go over the rotation here.

[00:43:11]And again, that rotation is just right over Frenchburg.

[00:43:16]And we are seeing that rotation being picked up. Um looking at the National Weather Service office, some of the pictures that we're seeing, um is kind of verifying what I'm seeing here on radar.

[00:43:29]So again, I'm going to go ahead and repeat. Uh the latest information from the National Weather Service office. Um cities that's in the path of this thunderstorms is going to include the Dennon area, the Wellington area, the Korea, and the Big Woods area. Again, if you're one of those cities that I just mentioned, uh you are under that tornado warning. So again, there's Frenchburg.

[00:43:54]Uh there's Scranton.

[00:43:58]There's the Pomememoroyon area.

[00:44:01]Uh let me see here. It looks like the Wellington area could be getting impacted soon. So again, we're going to monitor this very very close as we go throughout the next uh several several minutes. Again, this will expire at 8:15.

[00:44:19]So again, real quick, we'll uh get our bearings straight real quick while we wait for some new stuff. [snorts] Uh looks like National Weather Service office is saying this cell is going to continue to have some well- definfined structure and we'll cycle up and down.

[00:44:31]Uh we are going to monitor this downstream evolution closely. So, if this stays uh holding up, which the National Weather Service office is hinting that it could, uh, West Liberty uh over towards uh just west of or just east of West Liberty.

[00:44:52]Would not surprise me if a tornado warning was issued if this thing keeps holding up. I'm curious to see what the National Weather Service office does with this system. Um, and they're hinting to one thing to watch is gonna be how it's going to interact with that weaker general shower moving north out of northern Wolf County. So, uh, there's a lot of characteristics with this system.

[00:45:14]So, again, we're going to monitor this.

[00:45:16]I'm kind of curious to see what's going on, uh, with this in terms of that watch. Are they going to, uh, expire this or are they going to extend it?

[00:45:26]Right now, the talk is they're monitoring the system very, very close.

[00:45:29]We are still seeing some rotation uh being picked up with this system. And there it is right there, ladies and gentlemen. There's that rotation that we are watching. That was right over the Frenchburg area. You can see it right there on live pinpoint Doppler radar.

[00:45:45]That rotation that's pushing through uh looks like portions of Meny County. This is again, this is for Meny Morgan and portions of Wolf County. This goes into effect until 8:15 this evening.

[00:46:01]So again, quick recap from the National Weather Service office. 741 severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado uh was located near the Fagan area. Uh this is near Frenchburg. This is moving to the east at around 20 mph.

[00:46:15]Again, this moving to the east at 20 mph. Uh flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.

[00:46:23]Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. The storm's going to be near Frenchburg around 7:45. So, it's just now uh pushing out of the Frenchburg area.

[00:46:35]Denniston, there's your first alert that this system is going to be uh heading your way. The Dan area, here's your first alert as well. Uh over towards the Dennon area, the Wellington area, the Korea, as well as the Big Woods area.

[00:46:52]All right, let me I want to look up something real quick and then we'll talk about what's going on here.

[00:47:11]Okay, so I was just looking at the chat line here um seeing if there's anything new coming in. Um but again we are watching this area very close right here that red and green uh area that I highlighted. That's where we are seeing that rotation being picked up. The one thing I've noticed with this is that couplet that usually that you see like that we had back here.

[00:47:38]I've noticed that's starting to weaken a little bit. I mean, we're still picking up some pretty good rotation, but I'm not seeing that signature like couplet that um that would pick up. So, it looks like they just issued a new warning. Okay, if you're in the Fagan area, if you're in the Cornwell area, you're now in the clear. Okay, Fagan and Cornwell, you're now in the clear. Frenchburg, you're still under the warning. Maria, you're still under the warning. Artville, Big Woods. So, it's the Palmer Royon area is still under that tornado warning. Um, so this is the midterm warning that that just came out. National Weather Service is saying rotation has weakened. Um, but this storm has cycled before and it has.

[00:48:21]We seen this on radar. Uh, Wolf County is now out of the tornado warning. If you're in Wolf County, you're now in the clear.

[00:48:29]Uh so this is now uh for let me pull up the information here and I'll call it up on air. This is for just Metife and Morgan County. This is uh about 535 people are impacted. We are picking up 1 in diameter hail with this system.

[00:48:47]But again as we've mentioned this system has had the history of cycling which means it's getting weaker and then it's getting stronger. Then it gets weaker, then stronger, then weaker, then stronger. So that's what this thing has been doing.

[00:49:02]Uh, primary concern is along and north of the Highway 460 corridor right now.

[00:49:08]Um, but again, if you're in the Frenchburg area, if you're near Artville, thank you. Um, if you're near the Dan area or Big Woods, um, this is your first alert. You need to be in your basement or the lowest level of your house away from windows. If you are in a mobile home, you need to exit and find shelter somewhere else. Now, again, the primary concern is along and north of Highway 460. So, we'll go ahead and pull up Highway 460, and you can kind of see that where the main concern is.

[00:49:45]So, again, we're going to monitor this over the next several minutes. This expires at 8:15. Again, I'm kind of curious to see what will happen in terms of uh expanding this because if this expands and because it is moving due east, this system has had the history of cycling which again means it's getting weaker and stronger and weaker and stronger. I'm curious to see if West Liberty is going to get extended into this if it continues. Um, and I do agree with the hail size as well, uh, with this. Um, so again, because I'm seeing a lot of chatter on our social media right now, uh, the only two counties I am talking about right now, if I'm not talking about your county, this does not impact you just yet. Meny and Morgan County. Meny and Morgan County are the only two counties I'm talking about. If you are in any other county right now, this does not impact you um at all. If you guys start getting impacted, then I will start letting you know other counties are getting impacted. But right now, the main impact is this tornado warning right here. This is from Menafy County as well as portions of Morgan County.

[00:51:02]This does not include the West Liberty area.

[00:51:05]I will not be surprised um if if a new tornado warning is issued.

[00:51:11]And I do mean if because the National Weather Service is still kind of going back and forth with this, which I I agree with because this system, the rotation has weakened, but the storm has cycled numerous times. So, I do agree with this because that's what we were looking at on radar, how you would see it kind of weakened, then pick back up and then weaken and pick back up and then weaken. So, right now, 535 people are being impacted. Uh, this does not include the West Liberty area. This does go into effect for about another 15 minutes. Um, I'm monitoring the chat line on here. Very, very close. Uh, looks like the heaviest rotation is now, uh, let me pull up the velocity mode here.

[00:51:53]Looks like it's just to the south and it's going to move to the east of the Frenchburg area. You see the Hendricks Ridge area. You see the Clifton Road area, uh, the Betty Gap Ridge Road area.

[00:52:03]There's your first alert that we are still seeing some rotation with this system, albeit weak, uh, but rotation is there nonetheless. We just got a report of a rotating wall cloud on uh, Macazy Ridge in Frenchburg.

[00:52:20]So again, if you are in the Frenchburg area, rotating wall cloud has been spotted near there. Matter of fact, we'll go ahead and take a look here at uh one of the mezzoneet sites. There's the one near Stanton near Pow County. Of course, Pow County is now out of this uh but we are still monitoring very close the conditions there. So, again, we'll go ahead and go back and kind of go over the very beginning for those of you who are just now tuning in.

[00:52:50]This is a tornado warning.

[00:52:53]This is for uh portions of Metife County and portions of Morgan County. This is for portions again, Metife County and Morgan County. For another 14 minutes, [snorts] uh we did I am seeing some of the social media chatter where they saw the picture of the wall cloud. Yeah, the wall cloud was massive. I'm seeing the picture right now on the National Weather Service chat line. So again, quick recap. Uh for those of you who are just now tuning in, uh until 8:15, we have that tornado warning that is in effect from the National Weather Service office in Jackson. Uh 7:55 severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado is located near the Maria area or near Frenchburg. This is moving to the east at 20 miles hour. I'm going to go ahead and step on screen and we are going to go ahead and put the uh storm track on here just to give everybody a heads up as to what is going on. So, we'll put the storm track right here and we'll move the track a little bit farther. Let me go ahead and start my show real quick here. Uh we'll go ahead and call up the radar scan. There we go. Uh we'll go ahead and zoom in again where that tornado warning is.

[00:54:12]We'll go ahead and get the information up.

[00:54:16]So there's your tornado warning right here. Again, this is for Meny County and for Morgan County. Again, these are the only two counties that I'm talking about right now. Uh if you're not in Meny or Morgan County, this is not impacting you. These are the only two counties that I will be discussing over the next several minutes. So this expires in 12 minutes. Uh we'll go ahead and put the storm track on here.

[00:54:40]Uh looks like near the Dan area, the Zag area, Licking River, as well as the Wrigley area uh will be impacted. Dan ETA is about 10 more minutes. Uh Zag around 829, Licking River, 839, Wrigley uh looks like around the 8:45 area. Now again, National Weather Service office has uh been monitoring this very close.

[00:55:03]We are seeing some weak rotation being picked up here. Matter of fact, we'll go ahead and take a look here uh at our velocity scan. And again, you can kind of see that rotation. But what you're noticing with this is it's been cycling, meaning it's been getting weaker and then it rotate and then it picks back up, then it gets back down, then it picks back up again. Uh so I'm kind of curious to see over the duration of the next few minutes what the National Weather Service office is going to do.

[00:55:29]Are they going to wind up extending this uh into uh portions of Morgan County or are we going to go uh looks like they're going to go with the tornado? This is going to go they're going to go with the tornado warning. So tornado warning is going to be issued uh within the next few minutes. Uh [snorts] this is going to go uh for Morgan County. I would not be surprised if West Liberty is in that tornado warning. Uh we will be keeping an eye on that. Once you see it pop up, I will be uh popping up the latest information. Uh looks like the cell is going to be riding a boundary. So again, uh we're just going to wait and see where this new tornado warning is set up. If I if I were you, if I were in the Wrigley area or the West Liberty area, uh start getting ready uh just in case this tornado warning is issued for you guys.

[00:56:23]And it's just a matter of time that the new tornado warning will be issued. And again, this is going to go for portions of Morgan County, it looks like. Um, so again, that cell that we've been watching is now to the east of the Frenchburg area, and you're going to get a notification on the phone, too. Um, for those of you who have the WMT First Alert weather app, you're going to get that notification. A new tornado warning has been issued. But again, if I were you in Wrigley and West Liberty, I would not wait until the warning is issued. I would wait I would go ahead and start getting ready now um because I'm kind of curious to see where that tornado warning is going to be issued.

[00:57:12]And so we'll give it another couple seconds, but again, right now we'll focus on the one in Frenchburg. Again, you can see that line uh just to the south and east of Frenchburg.

[00:57:24]And we'll go ahead and pinpoint over towards this area right here. We'll put some roads on here near the Dennist area. I'm going to stay off screen for a little bit because I want to as soon as that warning comes out, I'm going to we'll go ahead and read that out. But what you'll notice where the time and the information is, it'll pop up on there. It says there it is. There's that new tornado warning right there. Okay.

[00:57:46]Tornado warning is in effect.

[00:57:50]Yep, there you go. West Liberty and Wrigley. West Liberty and Wrigley, you are now under the tornado warning. This goes into effect until 8:45.

[00:57:58]All right, latest information from the National Weather Service office at 805.

[00:58:02]Severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Dennon or near Frenchburg. This is moving to the east at 20 mph.

[00:58:12]Okay. So again, if you're in the Wrigley area or the West Liberty area, you are now under that tornado warning.

[00:58:23]All right. So, let's go ahead and go to the map. We'll go ahead and I'm going to go back in go back onto the wall. We'll go ahead and put some uh information on here. Again, this is that new tornado warning until 8:45. This does include the Wrigley and the West Liberty area.

[00:58:38]Here's a look at the radar scan. We'll go ahead and put the uh new storm track on as this is moving to the east at around 20 mph.

[00:58:48]Dan area around 8:19, Zag 8:35, the Pomp area looks like around 8:48, West Liberty 852, uh top of the hour, the Linux area. And what we've been monitoring over the past several minutes is this right here. We are seeing that rotation. And notice this is why that tornado warning was extended was because of this right here.

[00:59:13]We'll go ahead and move that map in. And we are seeing that rotation that is still being picked up right here. We'll go ahead and highlight it. So the green is what's going towards the radar right there. You have the red that's going away. This is the Jackson radar. Let's try that again. There's the red that is going away from the radar. So there's going towards and what the National Weather Service office has been saying is that it's been cycling. So it's been getting weaker and it's been getting into more fuel. It's been strengthening and then getting weaker and then strengthening. So um I'm not surprised that they did the tornado warning. I'm not at all. Matter of fact, I that was a very very good call there because of that rotation that's being uh picked up.

[00:59:57]So again, we'll go ahead and get our bearings straight because we have that new tornado warning now in effect until 8:45. This is for Meny County and Morgan County. The first one that is back behind us near the Frenchburg area. Uh will be allowed to expire at 8:15. If you're in the Frenchburg area, uh get ready to be in the all clear. We'll go ahead and move the map over. Let me try that again. Let me move the map over and we'll take a look here at that new uh tornado warning again that is in effect.

[01:00:30]So, let's go ahead and uh start that back up. I want to go ahead and log in over here and see if I can get the chat up here.

[01:00:42]There we go. So, I'm going to get the chat line up over here so I can kind of stay on the wall um in a few minutes.

[01:00:48]But again, there's that new tornado warning that is in effect right here. Uh we'll go ahead and move the map over.

[01:00:57]And again, this is for portions of Mor Morgan County as well as portions of Meny County. This does include the West Liberty area. So we'll go ahead and pinpoint in a little bit tighter with this system. And again, we're going to monitor this. If you're in the Frenchburg area, that heaviest activity is now to the east of you.

[01:01:17]you're okay to get out of your uh shelter if you are in the West Liberty area. If you're in the Wrigley area, uh you need to be in your basement. You need to be in the lowest level of your house. You need to be away from windows. Um you need to make sure you have a lot of padding between you and the outdoors. Uh we have seen Doppler radar indication that we are that rotation is being picked up for one and we have seen pictures of those funnel clouds that has been reported with this system. So again this is that new tornado warning that was issued.

[01:01:51]Uh this goes into effect until 8:45 about 5200 people 5206 to be exact are being impacted with this system. I'm going to go ahead and step off screen. I want to see if we have any power outages or any uh damage being reported uh with the this system real quick. Let me see what we have going on here.

[01:02:21]Uh we do have some it looks like in Lawrence County we have 396 customers without power. Ba County has about 259 customers without power.

[01:02:35]So, we are getting power outages uh reported with this system. Um so, again, quick recap. The tornado warning has been extended till 8:45.

[01:02:47]This is for Metife and Morgan County.

[01:02:49]This does include uh the Wrigley area, the Pomp, Zag 26, Woodsbend. Uh it looks like the Dan area has been extended and the Maria area has been extended as well. So again, if you know people in the West Liberty area, give them a heads up and be like, "Hey, know it's quiet now, but just to the west of you, we are seeing some rotation. Um make sure everybody's okay." Frenchburg, the heaviest band is just to the east of you. You guys are in the clear uh there.

[01:03:22]But right now, we are going to monitor the West Liberty and the Wrigley area.

[01:03:30]So, again, we're seeing a lot of uh comments on social about um different counties. The only counties I am referring to, please pay attention to this, Meny and Morgan County are the only two counties uh I am talking about.

[01:03:48]Right now, if I am not mentioning your county, this does not impact you.

[01:03:55]You are in the clear. So, if you're in Menafi County or if you're in Morgan County, I am talking to you.

[01:04:02]Uh let's see from the National Weather Service office. Cell merger is happening now in eastern Meny County. A simmer cell merger yielded the Py Pow County storm earlier. We are monitoring this system very very closely. Um, let's see. Yes, if you are in the Frenchburg area, the heaviest band is just to the east of you. Uh, it is safe for you to come out. You will see a little bit of thunderstorm activity pushing it way near you, but the rotation is to the east. So, Frenchburg, uh, it is safe for you to come out. Give about another couple minutes when that warning expires, but yes, you guys will be in the clear. If you're in the West Liberty area, if you're in the Wrigley area, you need to be seeking shelter. Uh you should be in shelter right now. Uh what I need you to do um is I need you all to stay safe. Make sure you've got your mobile phones on you. Uh, make sure you have, you know, WIMT or our Facebook live or WIMT Plus on our uh, streaming channel or on uh, your phone so you know exactly what is going on in terms of active weather.

[01:05:14]So again, quick recap. The uh, okay, National Weather Service in Jackson is getting ready to issue an expiration statement for the older warning. So if you're in Frenchburg, you can come out.

[01:05:23]Uh, you are now in the all clear. Uh, we'll go and put some other cities on here. There's the Maria area, the Scranton area, the Dan area, Zag 26, Woodsben, Pomp, as well as the West Liberty area.

[01:05:52]Okay.

[01:05:53]So again, about 5,26 people are impacted. This is Doppler radar indicated uh from the National Weather Service office in uh Jackson is saying, you know, 805 had that severe thunderstorm cable producing a tornado is near the Dennist area near Frenchburg. Uh moving east at 20 mph.

[01:06:12]It's going to be near the Wellington area. Uh is about 4 minutes ago. uh the EEO area around 8:15 and 26 around 8:25.

[01:06:23]Uh if you're in the Henry area, this is going to be near you as well. Again, um move to the basement, interior room, lowest level of floor, sturdy building.

[01:06:32]Make sure you avoid windows. If by chance you are outdoors and you're watching this or if you're in a mobile home or if you're in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter. protect yourself from flying debris.

[01:06:47]So again, if you're outside, come on in.

[01:06:50]We got a tornado warning out. Um, West Liberty Pomp, Woodsbend area. Here's your first alert. That system is just to the west of you. Uh, Prader Ridge Road area, Highway, what is it? Highway 1950, the Kelsey Road area, the Ruby Woods area, Highway 705, and the Dyer Branch Road area. Uh we're watching the Wellington to Ebon or Ebon corridor for new dominant circulating to emerge poste merger. So again, if you're in the Wellington area, um we're going to be monitoring you very very closely.

[01:07:33]All right. So again, quick recap.

[01:07:39]So let's get our bearings straight.

[01:07:40]There's live pinpoint Dopplerator. The only counties I am talking about right now is Menafi County and Morgan County.

[01:07:50]Again, Meny County and Morgan County are the only two counties I am talking about.

[01:07:58]So, we have that tornado warning in effect. This is until 8:45. This is moving to the east at 20 miles per hour.

[01:08:08]So, we'll go ahead and put some storm tracks on here.

[01:08:12]And I'm waiting for some information from the National Weather Service. I'm keeping an eye on the chat line while I'm back behind the podium here. But again, if you're in the Dan area, the Caly area, Zag, Yoken, Pump, West Liberty, Lennox, and Elk Fork, uh this system is heading your way. We have seen some rotation being picked up on live pinpoint Doppler radar. We have seen pictures of some funnel clouds being reported from the National Weather Service office as well.

[01:08:47]Let me pull up the radar scan here.

[01:08:51]So, yeah, there's the outline right here. We'll go ahead and call this up.

[01:08:59]Just kind of get our bearings straight as to who's under what. Okay. So, let me turn off the radar scan real quick and I'm going to show just the warning.

[01:09:10]There you go.

[01:09:12]West Liberty, Wrigley, Pomp, Zag, Dan, Denniston, Singleton Branch Road, Laurel Lane, Ratliff Creek Road, Fletcher Ridge Road, Highway 1569, Upper Long uh bridge, it looks like, Highway 705, Steel Branch Road area. If you're in this area right here, that is where the tornado warning is.

[01:09:39]you guys are under that, uh, make sure again you are in the basement or lowest level away from windows. We'll go ahead and go back to the reflectivity mode.

[01:09:48]Again, you can see that's pushing its way over towards the wriggly area. We'll go back over towards our velocity. And you can kind of see again right here.

[01:09:56]This is what we've been looking at, folks.

[01:09:59]That rotation, the green's going towards the radar, the red is going away from the radar. Again, this is pushing its way looks like to the east and it looks like it's starting to make more of a northeast approach. So, it looks like it's trying to start doing this type of of movement here. You can kind of see it right there on the past few scans what it's trying to do.

[01:10:26]All right. So, again, we'll go back over towards we're going to look at our base relative and our storm relative velocity. Our base velocity and storm relative, I should say. So, there's your base velocity again. There's that rotation right here. That's what we've been keeping an eye on. And what it's been doing is it's been um weakening and strengthening and weakening and strengthening. It's been doing this little cycle thing. Um National Weather Service office in Jackson has been saying that they're watching the Wellington area for a new dominant circulation um to emerge post merger. Uh all rotation is bright at the moment, but that cell is mid merger mid merger in terms of uh cycling. So again, see if I can put on some of the storm tracks here. See what I have.

[01:11:09]Give me just a second.

[01:11:13]Here we go.

[01:11:15]Yeah, there's where we're seeing that rotation being picked up right here uh on live pinpoint Doppler radar. We'll go ahead and pull out and take a look here at the big picture. I'm not seeing any other rotation being picked up with this, but right there we are seeing that rotation. And we're seeing some hail being picked up with this as well. And again, this is going to go until 8:45, so another 25 minutes. This is for Meny and Morgan County.

[01:11:43]So, I'm going to go ahead and give you the all clear. If you're in Frenchburg, you're in the all clear. If you're in Jeffersonville, Stanton, you're in the all clear as well. West Liberty, you need to be seeking shelter. You need to be in your basement right now. Wrigley area, you need to be in your basement right now as well as that tornado warning is in is still in play.

[01:12:06]Um, again, we are keeping an eye on some broad rotation near the Wellington area.

[01:12:12]I'm waiting to see what the National Weather Service office does when they issue um what they call like a a midterm uh update where they kind of trim back a little bit the warning because we are still seeing that rotation being picked up with this system. Again, if you're in the Wrigley area, I'll put that storm track on here.

[01:12:38]Wrigley. Uh, I think West Liberty. I think this is going to move to the north of you. The way this is going right now, you can kind of see how it's making that northwest hook, if you will. Uh, but it's something that we are going to monitor. Again, if you're in the Dan area, the Kelsey area, the Dehar area, the Pomp Wriggley, Lennox, and the Elimton area between 8:26 and 917.

[01:13:03]Again, this is Doppler radar indicated.

[01:13:05]we are getting that rotation being picked up um on the radar scan. We'll go back to the velocity mode here.

[01:13:16]And one thing I'm going to look at here is I'm going to look at our um this is a mode that we use. It's um it's our debris detection. The scientific terms called the correlation coefficient. So sometimes you'll hear us refer to the correlation coefficient. What this detects is any type of debris. Are we seeing that bright blue signature uh on this particular product? And if so, that's something that we need to be concerned about.

[01:13:47]So again, I'm going to put the information back on here and we'll go over the information again. This is for Meny and Morgan County. And again, for those of you who are watching, I'm only talking about Meny and Morgan County, and it's actually it's uh eastern Meny County to be exact. If you're in Frenchburg, you're in the clear. You're going to see some uh shower activity pushing through. But if you are in Menafe or Morgan County, these are the only two counties I am talking about at this time.

[01:14:22]This does not impact anybody else.

[01:14:25]>> [snorts] >> Um, I know we do have that threat uh for some active weather uh later on tonight, but right now uh we are worrying about Meny and Morgan County. But again, we are watching some broad rotation being picked up. Um the cell is mid merger and psych right now. Again, that's the statement from the National Weather Service office in Jackson. Um I'm getting several questions about Frenchburg and you know, what about London? What about uh Stanton? What about uh Laurel County?

[01:14:57]What about not county? If I'm not talking about you, you're in the clear. Um National Weather Service office in Jackson is noticing a downward trend. I do see that as well.

[01:15:10]Uh we are looking at this right now. We are still picking up that rotation right here.

[01:15:18]So again, this is near the Wrigley and the West Liberty area. Um, so again, we're going to monitor this.

[01:15:27]We'll see what the National Weather Service office does um when they do the halfway point update with this system.

[01:15:33]So again, I'm going to put the radar scan back up here. For those of you who are just now tuning in, um, this is for Menafe and Morgan County.

[01:15:47]Uh let's see. We're getting What about White Oak? That is below West Liberty.

[01:15:51]Uh looks like the White Oak area is under that tornado warning. Looks like you guys are seeing some rain uh right now. Uh there's the Gordon Ford area. There's West Liberty. Uh there's the Greer area near the Elim Branch Road area. There's old highway 172. There's the 26 area.

[01:16:11]Highway 1950. Uh, if you're in the Dan area, that rotation is right over you.

[01:16:17]You need to be in your basement, lowest level away from windows. That rotation is right over you.

[01:16:25][snorts] Uh, we are getting some stuff up. Uh, we're getting some messages on our um WMT messenger. Uh, looks like they're going to drop the warning. We're going to give it a couple minutes. Looks like the National Weather Service office is going to drop this warning. Okay, tornado warning has now expired.

[01:16:45]The system has weakened it looks like below these severe limits. So, we're going to go ahead and I'm going to go over a quick rundown and I'm going to go and tell everybody in the booth to get ready to go back to programming. But again, uh we're going to go through the rundown. As of right now, that tornado warning that was in effect for Meny and Morgan County has now been allowed to expire. Let me grab my clicker here. We'll go back to live pinpoint Doppler radar. We'll go ahead and zoom in to that system. But as of right now, we have no tornado warnings.

[01:17:20]That rotation uh that was still there has uh weakened substantially. It is still moving downstream, but it is weakened substantially. So again, the good news here, that tornado warning that was in effect for portions of Meny County and for portions of Morgan County has now expired. Um, just make sure you keep the WMT First Alert weather app handy on your mobile devices to receive the latest information for your area. You can also check out wt.com as well as WIMT Plus, which is our 247 uh streaming service that is on the Roku, Apple TV, as well as Fire TV. Of course, you can watch uh severe weather coverage any given time on those platforms as well as here on WYMT. So again, quick recap. That tornado warning that was in effect has now been allowed to expire.

[01:18:13]All right, current time is now 8:26.

[01:18:16]We'll go ahead and uh send you back to regular programming. Thank you so much for uh trusting us with your uh local news and weather information. We know you have many choices uh to choose from and we do appreciate you so much for uh trusting us here at WIMT. We'll go ahead and send you back to regular programming.