Timing out Tuesday's strong storm chance

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:35]and in Jennings County. Lawrence, Jackson, and Jennings, you are under that new severe thunderstorm watch that was issued issued from the National Weather Service in Indianapolis.

[00:00:44]Rick De Luc and I are sitting here in our studio C and we're hearing Yeah, it's not our stomachs, either. It is the thunder. The thunder we can hear it inside the studio.

[00:00:55]You know, it's crazy that meteorologists don't have windows inside, you know, you just but we can hear it. It's out there.

[00:01:00]We have some rain now in the metro and it's 4:46. Many people probably trying to navigate getting home from work or you're picking up the kids and now you're hearing the rumbling of thunderstorms and you know >> of get to throw back to yesterday and you're like, here we go again.

[00:01:14]>> I know, it's so hot and so humid that you can you can tell that there's fuel in the atmosphere that they have some energy to work with. Uh the question is, does that alone produce severe weather?

[00:01:25]So, here we are, Lawrence, Jackson, and Jennings, under that severe thunderstorm watch until 10:00 and no sound from Levi Turner. We getting some sound there?

[00:01:32]We're good now. We're good now?

[00:01:34]>> We're back? Okay.

[00:01:35]>> All right, we It It delayed for a bit.

[00:01:37]>> It delayed for a bit. Um appreciate that. So, uh again, if you can hear us, Levi, it's back. Thank you for the support.

[00:01:45]So, there's the risk that Bryce just pulled up now. Bryce, compared to yesterday, this risk covers a lot more area, which includes the Louisville metro.

[00:01:52]>> Yeah, it didn't include Louisville yesterday and now it's been uh I would say it's extended, but it's a completely different one. This one's a little bit further to the east and includes all of metro Louisville, technically.

[00:02:02]Um, and includes a few more of our other Kentucky counties. So, Henry, Oldham, Carroll, down toward parts of Meade, Breckenridge, Grayson, and Hardin, and Bullitt. So, all those are included in this as well. All of southern Indiana is included in this. Um, and as we talked about yesterday, that rain that moved its way across our area, literally just kept hovering right along the river. And I mean, it it it it it it was Kentucky's just They're feeling like they're just getting the short end of every single time from from Mother Nature.

[00:02:31]>> The fact that we have extreme drought, then looking at some of the flash flooding Kentucky folks are like, "What are you talking about flash flooding?"

[00:02:39]>> Yeah, when the docks are, you know, and Yeah.

[00:02:41]>> all the lakes are kind of on the rocks, it's just it's crazy to see the vast difference that we have in our area. And just so you know right now, Mark Weinberg's on TV. He is going through the severe weather potential.

[00:02:53]And that's what we're doing as well.

[00:02:54]We're tracking the thunderstorms out, but he's also letting you know what comes after this. So, we're just hyper-focused, Bryce and I, on right now helping you get from point A to point B in a safe manner. So, thank you for coming on in, and please share the video. That way, if someone else is in a similar situation as you, they can get the same information from trusted meteorologists that you know. And Bryce, this has been a day where we've been waiting for thunderstorms to go, but now you can kind of really feel that fuel out there with dew points which are close to 70s for some.

[00:03:25]>> Yeah, you step out and you're like, "Ooh, I can feel it brewing." You can almost feel it brewing. It's sticky, it's muggy. You got dew points over 70.

[00:03:32]Look, you get a dew point over 65, it becomes pretty gross. You get above 70, that's when it goes to next level.

[00:03:38]Bedford, Indiana right now, is just swimming in air, if that makes sense.

[00:03:44]You're Everything [clears throat] is just sticking to you right now, um, because of how muggy and gross it is. And all of this low-level moisture is getting used up by these storms. And if you remember, we showed you this map this exact same time yesterday, and these dew points were a little bit further back to the west, hence why a lot of the storms stayed further to the west. Well, now they're including a lot of our area. When you have this much moisture in your area with storms moving on in, a lot of them are going to have really heavy rain, and they're going to have those big old fat raindrops with them, which in turn can cause more flash flooding, which is bad news for those in Indiana because some of these storms are going to be what's called training storms, to where they're running over one area over and over and over, which is why we've got the flood watch out for southern Indiana. Yeah, and it's it's it's hard to watch some of the video that we got in last night and see the pictures of some of the people who have, you know, dealt with some of the damage from that. But, here's the deal.

[00:04:40]Now we have ground that is saturated, and it's waving a white flag saying, "All right, I've had enough. I cannot hold any more water." And unfortunately, those waterlogged areas are going to see more storms. We're already seeing that happening here. So, if you dealt with flash flooding yesterday, just know that the prime is pumped. It's not going to take much more to re-aggravate some of those issues. But, last night was a It was one of those crazy scenarios where we had storms, Bryce, and it just felt like they wouldn't stop. We had what's called an anchor point, and you can see that video playing beside me of the flooding in Marengo. This is from Nathan Hale.

[00:05:15]Um it's just scary to see water rushing that fast. And people always underestimate the power power of water.

[00:05:25]It takes only 6 in to knock a grown human off their feet and gets you swept away. 12 in of water rushing like that, that can wash away a small car, sedan, just typical vehicle. And 18 in of water, even those of you in the big trucks and SUVs thinking, "I'm I'm invincible. I can't be touched in this."

[00:05:43]That is not the case, unfortunately. And Bryce, I mean, I Every time I watch this, it's like >> It's It's scary.

[00:05:48]>> It It's That's the only word that comes to mind, seriously.

[00:05:51]>> and there's a lot of elevation changes through our southern Indiana communities, a lot of hills, and um and and things like that. So, you have to focus and think about mudslides and things like that as well, which I know we got uh had a couple pictures of as well. This is Louisville >> Oh. right now, by the way. Let me take the temperature off here so you can see where Obviously, you can't see much of anything cuz it's pouring down rain in downtown Louisville right now. Now, >> This is going to be a bad Mike Marshall's going to be busy >> we just I was just looking at Mike talking about traffic, and uh it looks like there was a wreck on 71 already.

[00:06:21]So, if you are heading out and you're about to leave your 9-to-5, hang with us. We're going to track and see if maybe you can get a little bit of a gap in there, and hopefully we can get you some gaps and dry time, at least for a little bit to get onto the interstate, to get the car rolling, and get the ball rolling. So, around our area, you can see a bunch of our cameras there, Rick.

[00:06:39]Little dark up there in Seymour now, and of course over in New Albany where some of these showers and storms have been moving through all day. And obviously where it's raining and cold and cuz it's a lot cooler. It's a little Yeah, temperatures are dropped, good point. Uh we went from 80s to 70s. We didn't make it to the 90s today, Bryce. We did, finally.

[00:06:54]>> Bryce was Bryce was like, "Oh, I heard you Can you tell me You said I'm not ready for summer."

[00:06:58]>> [laughter] >> I know, man. I was like I walked out the door this morning, I was like, "Oh."

[00:07:04]Like you just I got up, got a shower, getting the kids situated, and then you head out the door, and you just immediately get hit with this like blanket of heavy air, and you're like, It's thick.

[00:07:14]You can Yeah. Extra deodorant kind of day.

[00:07:16]>> You can even feel it in your house. Like your AC is just running and running and running, but you can almost feel a little bit of the heaviness um in your home. So, we've got a few of these storms popping up now.

[00:07:26]A lot of them back to our west and starting to get closer. Severe thunderstorm warning is getting um actually pretty close to our area, right over Tell City. We'll take a look at that here in a minute. Obviously, a good chunk of you, not all of you, understood, um but a lot of you are in metro Louisville. So, um when we look at what's happening in Metro right now, this is why our camera downtown Louisville couldn't see anything because this is moving right over the heart of downtown Louisville.

[00:07:49]It's got a lot of lightning with it, all things considered and how big or how little of a storm this is. I mean, this little storm alone has 65 lightning strikes in it. So, as a good amount, it's non-severe, but these can still have some decent gusts with them. We didn't have and Rick, correct me if I'm wrong. We I don't think we had very many if any severe thunderstorm warnings in southern Indiana yesterday where we had a lot of that tree damage. No. A lot of those were just gusty winds coming off of the storms.

[00:08:18]>> warning. We had There was There was some damage.

[00:08:21]>> Yeah. Um and we had one measurement from an instrument that wasn't verified, but we had something around 65-70, which could explain some of the damage that we saw, but like you said, there were no severe storms yesterday.

[00:08:32]Um and I know some people when you just have this kind of intense thunderstorm in the city, automatically assume this this has to be severe. I mean, I can't see outside.

[00:08:41]>> It's loud.

[00:08:41]>> Yeah, it's noisy. Um those don't define a severe thunderstorm. It has to create hail an inch in diameter or winds greater than 58 mph. And right now, this storm is not doing that. Um so, Jimmy Allen in St. in St. Matthews saying, "Hey, it's pouring."

[00:08:58]We're in there with you. We We appreciate the reports. So, any any reports from where you are. And then Elaine is saying sunshine in Shepherdsville. Yeah, I mean, you zoom out a little bit, you go into Shepherdsville, and there's nothing going on. So, Right. these This pattern that we're in is very normal for this time of year. It's where your atmosphere is so heavy and it's so juiced up that these storms are just going to kind of It's like taking a paintbrush, dipping in paint, and just throwing it at a canvas, and and it goes all over the place sporadically. And that's kind of what this storm is.

[00:09:25]>> there for you. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So, Jeffersonville, you're getting poured on right now. This is moving I I think a little bit further to the northeast.

[00:09:33]Yep. So, Glenview, if you live in Prospect, you live in Crestwood, Riverbluff, Goshen area. This is moving northeast kind of tracking right along where the northern edge of that storm is. So, a lot of this is heading right up this way. So, if you have to drive along I-71 leaving work within the next 5 minutes, I'm going to tell you right now that's not going to be a very fun drive. If you have to drive along 64 in downtown Louisville along the Waterson from basically east of Bardstown Road, that's not going to be a fun little drive either. And I don't think we're done. You can see a couple of these little pop-ups even on the backside of it. Now it's trying to get going. This one over Hazelwood, not too far from far from the Iroquois Park area right along Highland Park just south of the Waterson. That's going to make its way up through the airport and around Audubon Park here within the next probably 5 to 10 minutes or so. If you live in southern Indiana, Jeffersonville, I know you're getting poured on right now. Give it about another 20 minutes and you'll probably get a little bit of dry time in there.

[00:10:29]But Rick, obviously this isn't the only one. We look at this bad boy right here.

[00:10:32]So, we're banked up now. Yeah, and that one does look like it's moving into Breckenridge County.

[00:10:37]So, Santa Claus, Indiana right now >> World. Oh, Holiday World. Yeah, that they're I'm sure evacuating as we speak, but you you can see the severe thunderstorm warning does include Santa Claus, Indiana.

[00:10:48]Um Bryce, do you have the uh info on there? Perfect. Thank you. So, this is until 4:00 p.m. That is Central Time. Do not forget for just like we said, hail an inch in diameter or 60 mph winds. And that one's cruising off to the northeast, which does put it in areas like Oil, uh let's Birdseye.

[00:11:09]That's going to cross right over I-64 during the height of the commute. See if we can get a speed on this thing.

[00:11:15]>> Okay.

[00:11:16]Um assuming this is probably moving at around I mean, this is probably a good bit right here.

[00:11:26]So, Oil, you probably got about 16 minutes, English maybe 25. And uh here's the thing is that there's nothing really stopping this. It's out by everybody itself. It's got plenty of storm energy to work with and that's something Rick did. There is no shyness of right now is the fact that we've got a ton of instability to work with. But what we don't have is a ton of wind energy.

[00:11:49]>> Mhm. And that's that's really a key component if not the most important component to the forecast today is that you know, these storms they have a full tank of gas.

[00:12:00]But what they lack is the engine. Yep.

[00:12:02]And so unfortunately, um you know, we we have a situation here where actually fortunately that we're not going to see a ton of severe. Could you see warnings? Absolutely.

[00:12:11]And I do think we'll get some warnings as the evening wears on. Don't be shocked if you go under a severe thunderstorm warning. More common than not, we're going to get some strong storms, gusty winds, downpours, lightning. Um and that could re-aggravate some of the flooding in Indiana. Now, if you're in Kentucky, your tone is completely different.

[00:12:30]You're like welcoming any rain. It And there's still none out there. Now, thunderstorm chances in Kentucky are better tonight than compared opposed to last night where a lot of the stuff was confined to Indiana.

[00:12:40]But you saw what happened. Too much of a good thing can cause that flooding. So there's the other severe thunderstorm warning now. This one is going to include Breckenridge County.

[00:12:47]>> Okay. All right. So this one does include Breckenridge, also Hancock, Ohio. Uh this is going uh until 4:15. Again, that is Central Time for high winds and hail. And this one's cruising off to the northeast, which means you got to get ready for this one in Cloverport. This will cross over 60 between Cloverport and Hardinsburg as that one moves north and east. And this is how this is going to play out. We're going to see more of these storms kind of peppering the area. And they become a bit more numerous later on this evening and overnight. Uh Bryce has turned on Storm Heights. Yeah.

[00:13:19]>> I like this one he pulled up. Something that I want to kind of watch here is so obviously the taller the storm is, typically the stronger it's going to be.

[00:13:27]So the darker a color that you see there, the taller that the storm's going to be. So, this one with it being This is probably about 50,000 ft, 45-50,000 ft tall. What we're going to watch with a lot of these storms, since Rick was mentioning a lot of these storms have the gas, but they don't have the engine.

[00:13:42]So, we're we're lacking a lot of wind shear, a lot of wind energy. Without a lot of wind energy, what's probably going to happen with a lot of these storms, they're going to do this.

[00:13:50]They're going to build up and they're going to die off, and they're going to build back up, and then they're going to die off. We call those pulse style storms, which is what you see a lot during uh the summer months. So, this one, your Santa Claus is a little bit taller than this one, but I'm willing to bet we go back a little bit here, if it'll let me.

[00:14:07]Okay, perfect. So, you see south of Masonville down here on the left side of your screen, it's really tall, and then it goes back down when it gets to Whitesville, and it comes back up, and then it goes back down, and then it comes back up, and it goes back down.

[00:14:18]So, that's why when a lot of these are going to be moving through here, Rick, um that most of these are going to be very pulse style storms is what we call them, to where they're still severe thunderstorms. I mean, they can still push 60-65 mph winds, but a lot of them aren't going to be severe from one side of our area to the other side and producing tornadoes, because we're just lacking the wind energy.

[00:14:41]>> We're lacking the wind, which means these thunderstorms don't have that tilt necessary for the evacuation aloft, and often times that updraft gets choked off, and you see basically that storm height with Bryce showed you, the echo tops, come crashing down, come back up, and go back down. And And that's just going to be the name of the game as game as the evening wears on. And actually, there's a pretty good outflow boundary now >> Yeah, there is.

[00:15:06]>> on that splash in terms of that downpour showing up.

[00:15:09]And what I mean is Bryce is pointing out that little green line.

[00:15:13]So, that little green line is known as an outflow boundary.

[00:15:17]What exactly is this outflow boundary?

[00:15:19]Well, it's basically the storm going and pushing out this cooler air. Storms don't thrive in environments with cool air. They like it to be really warm and sticky, which we have out there right now. And that little outflow boundary is going to while it does cool, create some gusty winds around it, it could also be a neck and mechanism like a little mini cold front to produce additional thunderstorms. So I wouldn't be shocked to see we can already see some downpours firing. I wouldn't be shocked giving the environment we have out there to start to see more storms firing here Bryce around the metro.

[00:15:51]>> Yeah, especially with that outflow going easterly, J-Town, Fern Creek, Newburg, heading over toward Fisherville and right along the 64 and Snyder interchange. We'll have to watch that little outflow boundary that Rick was mentioning to see if any more fire along that. And something that's really cool that sometimes you can see, you won't see it in this case and scenario, but often when you get two storms that get close to each other and they both start pushing out these little outflow boundaries like that, when the outflow boundaries on radar collide, it's like an explosion. They'll hit and then all of a sudden, boom, it throws up Oh. You get storms everywhere, yeah. And so that and that's >> that's how tonight's going to unfold.

[00:16:29]We're going to have to watch radar because now we have so many things interacting. We have outflows, we have thunderstorms going, we have new storms forming.

[00:16:38]And at some point, once the upper level of support moves in, then we'll see even more numerous storms. And so this is just kind of the start here.

[00:16:47]Renee is saying she's watching here in live.

[00:16:50]Perfect. Love the combination. So you get the best of both worlds. We are just here hyper-focused on the now and Mark is going to cover the now obviously, but also the future, which does include more rain chances than those in Kentucky are saying, "Yeah, I like some."

[00:17:04]You have a really good opportunity later on this week.

[00:17:06]>> Yep. And something that we mentioned Rick was the fact that we have a ton of storm energy. And this is this is what's getting these storms firing in the first place is that I mean, when you have 3,000 we call it cape, it's just a unit basically of of energy. That's all it is. Um when you have that much storm energy, that is a lot.

[00:17:22]>> It's a lot.

[00:17:22]>> And I'll tell you what, it is a really, really good thing that we don't have wind shear at 70 mph right now, because we'd be talking about big problems.

[00:17:31]Well, we probably wouldn't be in here.

[00:17:32]No, we wouldn't.

[00:17:33]>> We would be We would be You're You are absolutely correct.

[00:17:35]>> on air um covering that. And and we would really, really hope that we can get the rainfall that you want. And this is I feel so hard explaining the situation because Kentucky needs rain with extreme drought. Indiana has so much they don't want any rainfall because of the flooding that they saw last night from Marengo through Borden. And now it's like it's really hard to communicate you know, for each person it's different, to be honest with you.

[00:18:00]>> Some people want rain now, and others are saying, "Okay, we've had enough."

[00:18:04]And it's just not going to be that equal distribution. Then you just can't get that when you have, you know, this kind of setup, because this is this is summer without summer. This is kind of pre-summer. You know You know how it works. You may be outside, get crushed by a thunderstorm, have to go in for 45 minutes, and then you maybe, you know, while you're inside, you call your friend, they're like, "No, it's it's sunny down here."

[00:18:26]>> "What are you talking about?"

[00:18:27]>> out by the pool. Like that's that's really uh how this is starting to unfold. Now, we will see more coverage of thunderstorms as the evening wears on. But like you said, Bryce, we have that instability, but we're lacking Yeah, we're lacking the wind shear. Then this is about a mile above the ground.

[00:18:41]And typically, what we look for is around 40 mph winds or stronger. So, as Rick mentioned, you can separate your updrafts and your downdrafts, and the storm can essentially breathe.

[00:18:50]If you can't breathe, it's obviously not going to live, right? So, when you don't have up to around 40 mph uh wind shear, it it it makes it really hard for them to do that, which is why you're not seeing it widespread, which is why it's very pulsy, and why a lot of them are very slow when they're rolling over, which is why we brought back up our flood potential again um for today, because any storms that are going to be rolling on over, Rick, are probably going to be moving slow enough and raining heavy enough to where it's going to cause some of those flash flooding issues. Um faded uh cider on YouTube is asking about Crestwood. Okay. Is it going to rain in Crestwood? You want me to put questions up? Yeah, we can just do it. So, there's Crestwood right there.

[00:19:29]And when we play this over over the last few minutes, we go back and see the direction this is moving. It's going to be close, but I would say part of Crestwood is going to get clipped by this. This storm is riding right up I-71. So, we go back here about 30 minutes ago and keep on moving.

[00:19:46]It's going to be It's going to be close for Crestwood. I would say the northern side of Crestwood and the closer you are to 71, um absolutely. And this is kind of what uh is great about doing these lives where you mentioned earlier so we get to really hyper focus on the now and the storms that are moving through cuz obviously this is what most what most most important is 5:05 in the afternoon.

[00:20:04]A lot of people are sitting at work looking outside and you're like, "Do I got a minute? Can I wait until it Winds are kind of blowing around. Um Am I going to have a It's going to slow down here in about a couple minutes and then I can go out to my car.

[00:20:16]You're trying to make some important decisions here and that's our our goal is to help you make those with some meteorological knowledge. Uh and also asking if we're on 41. Yes, we are on right now. So, we are not Marquez. Yep. So, we are just covering all our bases here because we can have we can really help you make a decision in the moment. And that's that's the idea of this is basically if you had a friend who's a meteorologist and you want to text him and ask him a question, this is the same idea except instead of texting just comment and we're going to answer those right now. So, >> got any, by all means rapid fire them in and we'll get through a bunch of them.

[00:20:52]All right, so let's hit it, Bryce. Um Uh Joshua is asking, "Will these pop-ups affect anything later?" Yes, this is just the beginning of our storms. We were going to see storms increase over the next several hours and then maximize later on tonight. And we'll see some lingering showers and storms in your tomorrow, but really tonight is going to bring a pretty good opportunity for thunderstorms across a good chunk of the area.

[00:21:15]Um and we have, you know, Someone's asking about a tornado threat.

[00:21:23]So I'm not I asked about that. Where was I? That Okay, Cheryl Clark asking, "Hopefully no tornado." Cheryl, the wind energy when it comes to this is unidirectional and it's really weak.

[00:21:34]And that's why we aren't seeing severe thunderstorms all over the area. We don't have the wind energy. You know we have the instability, you know they have the fuel because you step outside and you can feel it. I can't rule out warnings where you are.

[00:21:48]Perhaps even um a couple, but I would say more often than not we're looking at stronger thunderstorms. And within those storms, gusty winds, maybe some hail up to an inch in diameter, and also downpours and lightning. I know you just hear downpours, and for some it may be a good thing, but others in Indiana feel differently.

[00:22:06]>> Yeah, this is a really unique kind of spot that our whole viewing area is in cuz half of us, like you said earlier, are like, "Please stop. I'm good. I'm good. I don't need any more." And, you know, down in Rough River, they're like, "Our river's gone. We We have river flooding. Yeah. I mean, one river's down 10 inches and one river's up. It's crazy.

[00:22:24]>> It it's And I know the Ohio River has nothing to do with it. There's no mystery power that it has and possesses. Um But really that's the dividing line between where we have uh too much rain and not enough.

[00:22:42]Uh do you think the severe thunderstorm watch uh do you think we'll need a severe thunderstorm watch for Louisville? Um Co-Meredith is asking. So I can't speak for the Storm Prediction Center. Um that's who puts out these watches.

[00:22:57]I mean, I would understand if we did end up getting them. Um I think a lot of that is going to depend on what these storms that I'm showing you right now down in Southwest Kentucky end up doing.

[00:23:05]If we end up seeing this form more into a big line and then we start getting you know, like a storm here, a strong storm here, a strong storm here, a strong storm here, then probably.

[00:23:17]Um, but I think it's they're going to have to wait and see what these storms down to our southwest end up doing. Cuz if it's just these two, I don't think they're going to extend a watch for one strong severe thunderstorm.

[00:23:31]Um, I mean, I could be wrong. I can't speak for them.

[00:23:34]Um, but I will tell you this that it would be a severe thunderstorm watch. It would not be a tornado watch. Good point. And what they what the weather service has been doing so far today is something that a lot of people probably don't even know. It's called special weather statements. Yeah. So, they issue these and if um, you know, you get basic, you know, uh, radar info, it displays most of the time severe thunderstorm warnings. It will not display any sort of, uh, special weather statements. Now, you can look that up. The National Weather Service does have that on their page, but that's why we are here to kind of give you an idea as to what storms are strong, which ones are severe, and which ones you don't have to worry about. So, we're here to kind of help you guide along the way. But yeah, some of these are getting, uh, these special weather statements where they're not quite severe.

[00:24:20]They're close. They're below all the criteria and the threshold, which means it's not going to do any damage to life and property. But sometimes, you know, I've heard people just under some downpours and lightning say, "This has got to be severe." Yeah. And it's not.

[00:24:34]>> just packing a little bit of a punch, like Austin Bowders is asking on Facebook, "Why is the lightning more intense and more cloud-to-ground in the summer?" And a lot of that comes down to the fact that you're warmer and you're more humid. And when you're warm and you're more humid, you have more storm energy. And the more storm energy you have, the more pop that these storms have to work with. Without wind energy, you know, they're they're limited on what they can do. But when you have this much instability like what we do now, we have 2 to 3,000 units of instability, that's enough to really get these things going. And while sometimes you just hear a thunderclap and you're like, "My gosh, like this shook my whole house." It's like the the windows rattle a little bit, right?

[00:25:13]>> my whole house. Um so, uh typically when you get a lot of uh storm energy available, they can have a little bit more power to them um in terms of them just being loud and having a lot of lightning. And real noisy. Um Dennis is asking, "What about Shepherdsville?" Uh Dennis, I just looked at some of the high-resolution data. Around 8:00, it shows some storms.

[00:25:32]So, between 7:00 and 8:00, the opportunity is there. Could it happen a little sooner than that? Sure. There's going to be um some outflow boundaries or little cold fronts getting pushed outside of some of these storms. Think of Think of the pool. Okay, now the pools aren't open yet, but we can imagine, right? It sounds nice with with temperatures being as hot as they are.

[00:25:51]But let's say no one's jumped in the pool yet, and you go up and you do a huge cannonball into the pool, and you're going to basically send those waves out from where you made contact with the water.

[00:26:01]This is what's happening in the atmosphere. That one storm that basically went right over Louisville, think of that as you doing that cannonball, the pool being the atmosphere. Now it's sending out these waves, and those waves are going to allow some lift to generate some more showers and storms. So, this is going to kind of spread out and fill in as the evening wears on, but it's pretty cool to kind of see this happening here. And you know, we have people saying, "What about Bloomfield?" What about They're going to, you know, hyperfocus on certain areas. So, um Bryce, you want to take a couple of those off my hands?

[00:26:33]>> Yeah, so in in these scenarios, when you're asking about specific locations, it This is what makes it difficult with this kind of setup is because they're so sporadic. I can't tell you if one storm is going to pop up right over Bloomfield or right over Springfield 4 hours from now.

[00:26:48]We just don't have the the the science and technology to do that. What I can tell you is a general timeline. So, as Rick mentioned, the further that we go into the evening, the more likely that this is going to start to fill in a little bit more. And especially into tomorrow, I think overnight tonight, tomorrow morning, maybe in parts of tomorrow afternoon, it's going to be when our Kentucky counties start to at least get to be fed a little bit Yeah.

[00:27:10]>> with some of this rain that's rolling in. And if you don't get enough tonight and tomorrow, I I almost I don't want to promise it, but I can guarantee at some point we're going to get a good amount on the way later on this week. Yes. I mean, something's better than nothing. And it's also um it's important right now to to realize that what you feel out there today is not how it's going to feel tomorrow.

[00:27:31]>> No. The humidity is going to be coming down. We actually get a break all together from this humidity on Thursday.

[00:27:37]Uh and when you see temperatures go from 90 to the 70s, that means a cold front's coming through. And there's really no way to get that front through and to change the air masses from one to the other without generating some degree of rain and storms. Is it going to be enough in Kentucky? I'm I'm sure you're going to be like, "Nah, we need more than that." But uh it's something. And like Bryce mentioned, there are more chances here on the way.

[00:28:01]>> Absolutely. Another question, Bryce?

[00:28:04]Power is out in the Cooper Chapel Preston Highway area, Bill Anderson.

[00:28:07]Bill, I'm not sure that's weather related, to be honest, because it has not rained over there. Now, that's around where that outflow boundary is now pushing its way on through.

[00:28:17]Um but uh it hasn't stormed out that way. I know that because my parents live right there, and they've been complaining about not getting any rain for the last like 3 weeks. So, >> [laughter] >> Yeah, I got it. I'm pretty sure my mom's in here complaining about not getting >> [laughter] >> So, I'm not I'm not sure um you know, with this outflow boundary trying to make its way through South Louisville now, it's kind of crossing over by the Snyder. Um and 65, you may be able to get some 30-mph gusts in there, but I think it'll be pretty hard to cause anything weather-wise um to bring in power outages that way.

[00:28:47]But like even if these storms aren't going to be severe, they can still bring in some power outages. I mean, you have a tree fall, you have a tree that's rotted out, it's not going to take much for that thing just to get toppled on over, right? And it falls on a power line, well then there you go. So, even this storm that's moving through um Oldham County right now, I mean, it's not severe, but it's probably got some 30, 35, 40 mph gusts in there. So, it can still hit down some limbs and cause some spotty, I wouldn't even really call it scattered, spotty power outages um in Oldham County. Now, the main two storms are going to be the ones back to our west. One that is still severe, it hasn't been extended quite yet. So, we'll see if the National Weather Service ends up um extending this or not, but this one is for Breckenridge County. It's moving out of Paintsville, and the strongest in the core of the storm is now moving just south of Cloverport. Um and this is for winds up to 60. And as I'm talking, they just canceled it. So, there you go. This is what I'm talking about, and Exactly what we mentioned earlier. That's right, helps helps explain things.

[00:29:47]>> with a lot of these storms are going to go whoop, they're going to go up and down, up and down. That thing built up, now it's collapsing, and now maybe a half hour from now when it moves into Meade County, maybe it'll be stronger again and become a severe storm again.

[00:29:59]Um which may be what's happening with this one that's moving out of Perry County and getting close to uh to other parts of our viewing area near Royal.

[00:30:06]Yeah, and you can see that that there's stuff going out ahead of the actual severe warning itself as well. Austin Ballad asking was today our first 90° day of the year? Yes. It was. We got so close so many times. 89 we hit the past couple of days. Today we definitely took the cake, first 90 of the year. I know this is the unofficial start to summer this weekend. Well, it's unofficially starting today as well.

[00:30:30]Uh Absolutely enjoy these live updates.

[00:30:32]Thank you to the whole WDRB Weather Team. Y'all are top-notch. Angie, I really appreciate that over on YouTube.

[00:30:37]Have a nice YouTube following.

[00:30:39]>> YouTube YouTubers out here is probably man. We appreciate you showing up today and uh uh please like the video, please subscribe to our page. That way, every time we go live, you know we are and you can see the latest video. That way, you're not getting stale, old information. You have the latest and greatest. And Mark and I, I'm sure we'll be on here later. It's not like these storms are going to just fizzle out before 8:00 8:00 p.m. We're going to continue these through the evening and overnight. So, please, if you're on here now, do me a favor, come back here around 8:00 8:30 because Mark and I will most likely be on here doing another episode of WW Weather Live to give you a radar update, tracks of your weather potential, and get you through these thunderstorms. And I know there's some people on here as how bad is it supposed to be? So, this is in Bloomfield, Kentucky, Bryce. You want to take this one from Cassidy here?

[00:31:30]>> Yeah, so this is a slight risk. Um we get slight risks all the time during spring. Yesterday was a slight risk in southern Indiana. Saturday was also a slight risk across parts of our area when we had a few severe thunderstorm warnings.

[00:31:44]You could argue that maybe today didn't need a slight risk. You could argue maybe it does. What's really lacking today, as we were talking about, was uh the wind energy. So, there's enough little pops in there to where the Storm Prediction Center think thought that it was warranted. And this is mainly just for damaging winds. We don't have a tornado risk in our area from the SPC today. This is mainly and solely because of the fact that some of these could have some damaging winds in them. We saw that yesterday, even with some non-severe storms. So, that slight comes all the way down through Shepherdsville near Bullitt County, completely covers Louisville, goes through Oldham, and almost all of Henry. And then it comes down toward the northern half of um Hardin County, all of Meade, all of Breckinridge, and then the western half um of Grayson County. And that's because, much like yesterday, as these storms move east from now on, they're going to start to run out of steam at some point because we're going to start to lose daytime heating, and then we're going to cool down.

[00:32:38]But our Kentucky counties, don't fret.

[00:32:41]I think this is going to start to fill in a little bit more overnight tonight.

[00:32:44]Yeah, and that cold front will be arriving later on tonight, and that lift that that front provides and the switch of air masses alone should help at least get some rain down there. I don't want to promise a lot and, you know, get your hopes up and, you know, when you see some rain out the door it's going to be a process to really make up We are so behind schedule. I mean, so behind schedule, Kentucky. This is not going to be a situation where one or maybe even two rain chances solve the problem. It's going to be something, you know, it takes a long time to dig yourself into that hole of drought and it takes some time to fill it in as well.

[00:33:21]>> Yeah, and the way you combat drought is not by getting 3 to 4 inches of rain all at one time. You get it by getting a little here, a little there, a little here, a little there over >> to get that topsoil softer, and then you got to get that softer before you get into the subsoil. That's a process. So, oddly So, oddly enough we have the flood watch for southern Indiana.

[00:33:42]In Kentucky, it's a good thing that we're not getting widespread incredibly heavy rain because while we need it a lot of that would just go down as runoff. The soil wouldn't be able to absorb all of it all at once, and then you're talking about flooding in areas that haven't seen rain in a long time, which is kind of contradicting it, but You're like, come on. What You can't win. Yeah, you can't. Took the words out of my mouth.

[00:34:04]Can't win. All right. So, Bryce and I are going to answer about three more questions or so, and then we're going to wrap things up. And like I said, if if you're watching here and you still want more information, Mark is on WDRB right now.

[00:34:17]No active warnings in the area. Am I correct on saying that, Bryce? Yeah, they canceled that one your oil. Okay, which means we have thunderstorms.

[00:34:24]We just don't have any severe thunderstorm warnings. Can we rule some out in the coming hours? No. In fact, I do think there'll be a couple more, but once we see that daytime heating go away, the sun goes down, the storms that we have are losing energy. So, this is I I mean, this is a good situation here.

[00:34:39]This is This is peak heating. This is the most energy that we will have during the day, and you notice we have strong storms, but we don't have anything severe. So, um hopefully you can get the rain that you want or you don't want, and we can get out of this one um safe and sound. But, you know, after seeing some of that flooding last night, it's just it's a good reminder. Flooding is one of the most hazardous weather-related killers.

[00:35:04]>> Flooding and heat are kind of the the two like sneaky ones that end up costing a lot of lives. The most, actually.

[00:35:11]>> the most, but right below that >> it's flooding.

[00:35:13]>> Yeah, and so that it's just a reminder here as we get closer to summer, don't underestimate heat, and don't underestimate the power of water for flash flooding. These are things that I feel like people always just kind of push to the back of their head and don't take it too seriously, and we do not want you to learn the hard way. Um Patrick Gardner's asking in general how much rain are we expecting?

[00:35:33]So, I'm going to pull back up that flood that flood watch again, and um I'm going to pull up the specifics from um the National Weather Service on that flood watch. I believe um it is for around 2 to 4 in of rain is the potential um for areas in It's going to be like Rick said, it's not going to be widespread. There's going to be some of you that are like, "Stop, please." And there's going to be some of you that are like, Well, okay, I was under a flood watch and I got 10th of an inch of rain. And it's it's really it's going to really depend on your perspective. And I hate to say that, but when you look at these maps, there's going to be pops where you see areas that got a lot of rain, and others that fell short. But, in this zone in particular, they're just saying that the atmosphere is already, you know, juicy. There's a lot of moisture to be wrung out. The ground is also waterlogged, so when you have those two combine, it can recreate areas of flash flooding, which means use caution.

[00:36:36]Now, if this watch gets updated to a warning or an advisory, I mean, that's a completely different situation. I mean, that that that means you need to take action to avoid putting yourself in danger or your family. So, that's that's a very different situation.

[00:36:51]>> Um someone's asking on YouTube, is it raining in St. Matthews and Lyndon? So, it is not raining in St. Matthews right now. There's a little shower that's trying to survive over near Anchorage and Middletown, just east of Lyndon, but St. Matthews has dried off after that quick downpour um earlier. We need rain in Hillview, I know. I know. South Louisville has gotten hosed on this.

[00:37:12]Uh not getting any rain out of it, so.

[00:37:14]>> No, it's and that's that's in the same county. That's the crazy part. You're talking about a county and the vast differences between that.

[00:37:21]Um okay, so with that said, Bryson and I are going to wrap things up. Um again, if you missed part of the information that you want, you can always scroll back um and go through the video again, but we are going to be on live later.

[00:37:35]Bryson's going to go home and relax for a little while. Mark and I will take over and uh track more of these storms for you. Again, we're on WDRB News until 7:00.

[00:37:44]>> You're going to be on there here before long.

[00:37:46]>> No, you're right. I got I've got to be on there till 10:30. I have some prep I have work [laughter] to do. I I I've lost track of time, like I always do.

[00:37:52]>> I was like I was like oh, yeah, I was like wait a minute. I'm already already.

[00:37:54]So, I'll be on at 6:30, but um thank you guys so much for joining us tonight. Um again, if you like the video or send some hearts, show us some love. We appreciate all you joining us, trusting us, and also the question part, you know? Yeah. I if that's just the fact that you can ask questions, we're like your personal met. Mhm. And you have contacts with >> we're here for, to keep you guys safe and sound. So, hopefully that