Afternoon Update
The WKMS listening area is under a tornado watch until 7 this evening. Showers and thunderstorms are beginning to pick up across our region. Showers and thunderstorms continue until midnight, some storms could be severe with potentially damaging winds between 10 to 20 miles per hour, gusting as high as 38.
Increasing clouds tomorrow, highs near 47. Sunny and mostly clear skies for the week ahead and over the weekend.
Earlier Story:
The National Weather Service in Paducah is monitoring a system that could deliver potentially severe thunderstorms and the possibility of tornadoes later on today.
Damaging wind gusts from the south between 35 and 45 mph are more likely over parts of southern Illinois and the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky through the mid-afternoon, and then in the Pennyrile region of western Kentucky into the evening. The strongest gusts will accompany thunderstorms.
NWS say within the stronger lines of severe thunderstorms stand the potential of a few isolated tornadoes.
Locally heavy rainfall may cause flooding issues with drainage wells and already saturated soils.
Sunny weather with highs in the 40s is expected for the rest of the week starting tomorrow.
