Thousands of Kentuckians lost power overnight as severe storms moved across the state.

The National Weather Service confirms a couple of EF one tornadoes touched down.

Our Laura Rogers checks in with the Kentucky mesonet about a very active weather week.

Shane Holliday is outreach manager at the Kentucky Mesonet for WKU and the Kentucky Climate Center.

And, Shane, we had a lot of severe weather that moved across the state last night.

We had tornado warnings issued in several counties, high wind gusts, thousands without power, and the Louisville Metro Palatine area.

So tell us more about that round of storms and what we know about it so far.

Well, we had, a very congealed, organized line of thunderstorms race across the state from west to east.

Pretty much everybody across the Commonwealth was impacted by this one Sunday night.

We had wind gusts at several of our mesonet sites in excess of 60 miles an hour, including one in Meade County was 68 miles an hour.

That not too far away from Brandenburg.

And that is also not far away from where one tornado was confirmed EF1 by the National Weather Service office in Louisville, that one touching down in Bullitt County, not too far away from Shepherdsville.

Another one also touching down in the Fairdale community.

Just outside of Louisville.

More of the same is expected for later this week.

Tell us what we need to know to prepare.

You know, the Storm Prediction Center map for Wednesday looks almost identical to the way it looked going into yesterday, where we had an enhanced risk, which was level three out of five for severe weather potential.

We've got that up again for Wednesday to Wednesday night for a good chunk of Kentucky, say, for the easternmost portions.

But even there, there's a possibility for severe weather as well.

All modes are back in place.

That would be large hail once again, greater than quarter inch or one inch in diameter.

And also the potential for 60 mile per hour plus winds and the threat for several tornadoes.

The highest tornado threat will be over far west Kentucky, but that's not to say that could not happen anywhere else.

So it's going to be a bumpy ride.

It looks like Wednesday and also into Thursday, as the frontal system that gets here Wednesday night is actually going to stall over the region, and we'll hang out here for several days.

That's problematic for two reasons.

One, we're going to have another threat for severe weather already highlighted by the Storm Prediction Center for Thursday into Thursday night.

And in addition to that, with repeated rounds of rainfall, some of it heavy, we're likely to be looking at potential for flash flooding, along with aerial flooding and river flooding all across the state as we move into late week.

And this will be particularly for the period Wednesday night all the way into the weekend, as it could be Sunday before we dry out completely.

We saw some flash flooding not too long ago that was deadly and destructive, and that's always so concerning.

But you say even in this case, we could see flooding happen in areas where they're not usually prone to that.

That's right.

You go back to mid February, the event that happened on February 15th and 16th where we saw six plus inches of rain across the state.

We had areas of standing water that don't normally see it.

We also had about a couple of dozen fatalities attributed to that event, mostly due to, folks driving in to areas that were flooded.

You never know how deep that water is when it comes to flooding.

So that's why we say turn around, don't drown.

Not only that, but we had a lot of washed out roadways, in the wake of that February flooding event.

And that caught some people off guard as well.

That could happen again.

Some of the forecast totals have been quite staggering that have been predicted by NOAA and the Weather Prediction Center in excess of six inches of rain looks to be likely from northwest of the line from Paducah to Lexington, and some places could get double digit totals.

So we're talking about the Ohio, the green, the Kentucky River and their tributaries, seeing rising waters for several days straight going into at least the week, and a little bit beyond Shane Holiday with the Kentucky Mesonet, a WKU and the Kentucky Climate Center.

We appreciate you so much.

Thanks for your time and your insight.

Thank you.

Laura.

Shane suggests having a couple of ways to get severe weather alerts, especially overnight.

That includes on your cell phone and a NOAA weather radio on the other side of this next system, he says there's frost and freeze potential next week.