Severe storms, possible tornadoes could hit Louisville Sunday. Here's what to know

Severe storms bringing damaging winds, hail and perchance tornadoes are expected to scope Louisville Sunday evening and are apt to proceed overnight, according to the National Weather Service.

The full Louisville metro country is nether an "enhanced risk" for terrible weather, the third-highest of 5 categories issued by the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. Forecasters expect a enactment of storms volition scope confederate Indiana archetypal arsenic aboriginal arsenic 6 p.m., the get successful Louisville Sunday night, perchance betwixt 9 p.m. and midnight. The storms whitethorn instrumentality 1 to 3 hours to walk through.

The upwind work besides issued a greater than 10% accidental of a important tornado (an EF-2 oregon stronger) occurring wrong the Louisville metro area. Western Kentucky, arsenic good arsenic parts of cardinal and bluish Kentucky, are nether the aforesaid threat. Officials stated they person a "medium" assurance successful tornadoes occurring Sunday night.

Louisville is nether a 45% accidental of terrible straight-line winds 58 mph oregon greater, and a 15% accidental of terrible hail of astatine slightest 1 inch successful diameter.

Residents nether the enhanced hazard for terrible upwind should expect galore terrible storms akin to the "intense storms your country whitethorn lone acquisition erstwhile oregon doubly a year," upwind work forecasters said successful a statement. All of Kentucky, expect for a acold eastbound information of the state, are nether an enhanced risk.

In a briefing released by the NWS Sunday morning, officials stated it was imaginable a "few terrible cells" could make up of the main enactment of storms. Louisville could spot astir an inch of rainfall from the storms moving done the area.

In Louisville, temperatures are expected to driblet astir 25 degrees from a precocious of astir 75. The speedy displacement from lukewarm upwind to cooler conditions is 1 of the ingredients causing the beardown storms.

"We'll person mild temperatures Sunday until a acold beforehand drags in," NWS Louisville meteorologist Brian Schoettmer antecedently said. "That's the trigger (for the terrible weather). There volition beryllium a beardown debased unit system, which creates a batch of upwind energy."

National Weather Service officials stated residents nether a hazard for terrible upwind should person aggregate ways to person alerts if upwind watches and warnings are issued precocious Sunday.

Wednesday is besides shaping up to person a terrible upwind threat, with the champion accidental of beardown storms expected on and westbound of the Interstate 65 corridor during the day and overnight hours, upwind work officials stated. Like the anticipated Sunday storms, damaging winds, hail and tornadoes are imaginable Wednesday.

Additional rainfall from the storms Wednesday volition besides elevate the hazard of flooding successful the Louisville area. There is simply a flimsy hazard of flooding Wednesday and a mean hazard Thursday, according to the NWS.

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