
State Cleaning Up After Latest Round of Storms
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Storms cause widespread damage, force some schools to cancel the first day of classes.
Parts of Kentucky are cleaning up after the latest round of rain and storms. At least two school systems had to delay the start of school because of the weather. Our Emily Prince talked to someone from Kentucky Mesonet about the powerful storms and what comes next.
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State Cleaning Up After Latest Round of Storms
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Parts of Kentucky are cleaning up after the latest round of rain and storms. At least two school systems had to delay the start of school because of the weather. Our Emily Prince talked to someone from Kentucky Mesonet about the powerful storms and what comes next.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWell, parts of Kentucky are cleaning up yet again after the latest round of rain and storms.
At least two school systems had to delay the start of school because of the severe weather.
Perry County pushed back the first day of school from today until tomorrow.
Powell County canceled classes because of storm damage and power outages.
Our Emily Prince talked to someone from Kentucky Mesonet about the powerful storms and what comes next.
Well, the storms that moved through Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night of went from basically the north northwest to south southeast across mostly the bluegrass region, north central parts of Kentucky.
But Shane Holland said sections of south central and south eastern Kentucky were also impacted out of the state's mesonet sites.
A county in the northeast part of the state saw extreme conditions.
The highest wind gusts that we saw at our mesonet locations was in Nicholas County near Carlisle.
Augusta, 81mph.
That's category one hurricane force.
The northernmost part of the state also saw major impacts.
We had a gust of 56, for example, in Campbell County District Cross River from Cincinnati.
So it was quite a bumpy afternoon to go with that.
We had some flooding areal flooding, as well as flash flooding.
Some signs saw upwards of two inches of rain accumulating between, late Tuesday morning and this morning.
And we had more than four inches of rainfall at our site in Franklin County, not too far away from Frankfort.
Another set of storms is set to roll in later this evening.
Holland said the risk of tornadoes is much lower this time around, but flooding is still possible.
Another round of thunderstorms is a good bet moving into Wednesday evening and Wednesday night across parts of again, central and eastern Kentucky.
Some of these storms will be moving on ground that is already saturated from rains that occurred late Tuesday into Tuesday night.
So that threat is on the table once again.
And it looks like the threat for tornadoes is not non-zero, but very small.
It looks to be more of a damaging wind threat for portions of the Commonwealth yet again Wednesday evening.
So when might we get a break from all the rain and a chance to get out and mow the yard?
Holland said it'll be a few more days.
May take several days for all the state to completely dry out, but the tradeoff with that trend is that we're going to turn hotter and we're also going to stay humid.
The Kentucky mesonet leaders said heat indices will be well over triple digits in the days ahead.
For Kentucky Edition, I'm Emily Prince.
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