The Remnants of Hurricane Beryl Take Aim on Kentucky and Indiana

Last week, Karla and Daymon Ward of Owensboro were supposed to be spending a vacation week in Jamaica. However, they were forced to cancel their trip because of Hurricane Beryl. The powerful storm had their vacation destination in its sites and the Wards decided to stay at home. Oddly, what's left of that storm is now taking aim on the Tristate area. The Wards (and the rest of us) are likely going to experience some of it after all.

The National Weather Service in Paducah expects the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, which just made landfall in Texas as a Category 1 storm, to "cross the region through Tuesday night" and will be bringing with it potentially heavy rains, damaging winds and more. In fact, there's already a Flash Flood Watch in place in the western two-thirds of the NWS coverage area.

As you can see, the heaviest anticipated rainfall is located in Missouri. However, here in the Owensboro-Evansville area, we could certainly see our fair share of precipitation.

In addition to potentially torrential downpours, there are other threats in play as well. We could see "localized damaging wind gusts" and "a couple of tornadoes especially Tuesday afternoon and evening."

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That severe weather probability is projected to be south and west of the immediate Tristate area. However, the threat of 60 mph wind gusts is certainly pushing our boundaries.

Of course, this isn't the first time western Kentucky and southern Indiana have been impacted by the remnants of a hurricane. The most notable example was Hurricane Ike back in 2008. When the leftovers of that system reached the Tristate area, it brought with it 70 mph wind gusts that caused massive amounts of tree and property damage.

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