The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for Daviess County through 9 p.m. A Flood Watch has also been issued through 7 a.m. This post will continue to be updated with information and messages.
Reminder: A Tornado Watch is issued when conditions make it possible that a tornado could form. A Tornado Warning is issued when a tornado is imminent or has been sighted/radar indicated.
Here are the latest updates:
6 p.m. — The Daviess County Emergency Management Agency issued the following message:
After consulting with the weather service it looks like the next chance of damaging winds/spin up tornadoes should be closer to 9pm with the next line. Unless something changes it should just be heavy rainfall until that point.
We will update then
1:31 p.m. — The National Weather Service in Paducah issued the following message:
1:30pm another update to the tornado watch. Any county in yellow is in a tornado watch through this evening.
1:19 p.m. — The Daviess County Emergency Agency posted the following message:
The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for Daviess County to include the City of Owensboro until 9pm
There are Tornado Warnings in Western Kentucky as we speak, please remain weather aware.
Storm Prediciton Center : SUMMARY…Supercells are forecast to continue to develop and intensify across the Watch area as the airmass recovers in wake of an earlier thunderstorm complex. Large to very large hail, tornadoes, and damaging gusts are possible. A strong tornado is possible with any mature and intense supercell.
1:17 p.m. — The National Weather Service in Paducah issued the following message:
Scattered showers and storms continue to develop across the region this afternoon. Any of these storms could quickly strengthen and produce severe weather. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes are possible with the strongest storms. Torrential downpours will cause severely reduced visibilities.
11:03 a.m — The Daviess County Emergency Agency posted the following message:
TORNADO REFUGE LOCATION UPDATE
Okay folks some changes here, because we may be under a Tornado Watch for a long period of time today we have made the decision in coordination with the National Weather Service and our local Church Partners to open REFUGE locations at 300pm CST and they will remain open until the all clear is given.
This system is going to be hard to nail down. What we do know is that the potential for damaging winds and embedded Tornadoes is there, there enough for us to take note.
Updated locations will follow timely.
