Western Kentucky and middle Tennessee remain under a Flash Flood Watch through midnight and severe weather is possible this afternoon and evening.
Rain did arrive overnight, but it wasn’t the inch-to-two inches that had been in the forecast and no major flooding problems have ensued. The watch will remain in effect today, however, as it won’t take a lot of rain to cause flash flooding with the ground complete saturated by repeated rainfall events over the last few weeks.
All of our listening area is under a slight-to-enhanced risk for severe weather. All of Trigg and the southern halves of Christian and Todd counties are in the enhanced risk area, with a slight risk to the north.
National Weather Service in Paducah Meteorologist Chris Noles says the time of greatest likelihood for storms will be in the late afternoon and evening hours.
Damaging winds of up to 70 mph and isolated tornadoes will be possible and with the ground being so wet already, trees could easily be uprooted.
The good news is that there are no additional heavy rainfall or severe weather events in the forecast over the next seven days, so the region will hopefully get a chance to dry out a little for the first time in a month.