Severe weather is expected to impact parts of western Kentucky and Tennessee – as well as southern Illinois – beginning Friday evening and into Saturday.
All of southern Illinois and far western Kentucky – past Hopkinsville – is expected to be at a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms late Friday evening. Tennessee communities from Waverly and westward will be at risk for severe weather as well.
Keith Cooley, lead forecaster for the Paducah office of the National Weather Service, said that damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes could impact the region during a briefing Friday morning. He said it has the potential to be “a pretty dangerous and concerning severe weather event.”
“Right now, all the hazards still look possible,” Cooley said. “We still would have a good chance at seeing large hail, tornadoes and damaging winds out of any of those storms that develop.”…