Regional Weather Summary


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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
345 PM EDT MON AUG 12 2013
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS
THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY THIS MORNING. ELSEWHERE...WIDESPREAD FOG AND
CLOUDY SKIES PREVAILED. TWENTY FOUR HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS VARIED FROM
A TRACE TO 1.44 INCHES. TEMPERATURE READINGS AT 7 AM GENERALLY
RANGED FROM THE UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S...HOWEVER...A FEW SHELTERED
VALLEY LOCATIONS REPORTED READINGS IN THE MID 60S. THE NORMAL LOW
FOR TODAY IS IN THE MID 60S.
BY MID AFTERNOON...A DREARY DAY WAS UNDERWAY ACROSS THE COALFIELDS
AS SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE REGION. SOME
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. PORTIONS OF
VAUGHN/S MILL ROAD AND HARDWICK/S ROAD IN POWELL POWELL COUNTY WERE
INUNDATED WITH A FOOT OF FLOWING WATER. FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WERE
ISSUED FOR POWELL COUNTY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURE READINGS WERE
GENERALLY RANGING FROM THE MID TO UPPER 70S. TYPICALLY...THE HIGH
FOR TODAY IS IN THE MID 80S.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON TAP FOR TONIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAPER OFF FROM
NORTH TO EAST TUESDAY NIGHT. A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS WILL REMAIN IN
THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HIGHS
TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE MID TO UPPER 60S. HIGHS ON TUESDAY WILL
GENERALLY BE IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S.
ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER HISTORY...IN 1983...STRONG WINDS DOWNED TREES
THROUGHOUT MAGOFFIN COUNTY AND CAUSED MINOR DAMAGE TO CORN AND
TOBACCO CROPS IN SALYERSVILLE.
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