For a few days the SPC was calling for a significant severe weather episode for the entire midwest and southeastern states, A Moderate risk was posted for these areas.
Overnight a few storms erupted in the lexington area ... nothing major just a few boomers.. but as the mid day of the 2nd slowly ticked on a line of severe storms developed around MO and western KY and were moving east .. as the day wore of this line became very dangerous when it reached cental Ky. Severe warnings extended from the TN line up into IN with at least 7 tornado warnings in effect at the same time in KY. As this line got near lexington an area just to the SW was showing signs of a strong Mesocyclone as seen here..
also note the strong tornadic signature on the bottom of the image. eventually this storm lost a little strength as it drew closer to my area. but what we saw was still amazing for a jan storm.
Shortly after viewing this radar scan I decided to see what i could see from here so i went 1/2 block up the road to the school parking lot where wouldnt ya know a very defined gust front was approaching and fast...
I started snapping photos actually got 30 of em before the storm was way too close for comfort since i was on foot at the time as i was headed back home i noted a wall cloud just about overhead and to my SW with some good vertical motion and rotation.. as it passed over i got a few photos of that and took shelter inside as the rain and fairly gusty winds hit. wasnt as bad as it looked on radar We were spared this time.. a county south of me got hit hard by a tornado heres some of the images i captured.
Photos From Lexington
Overnight a few storms erupted in the lexington area ... nothing major just a few boomers.. but as the mid day of the 2nd slowly ticked on a line of severe storms developed around MO and western KY and were moving east .. as the day wore of this line became very dangerous when it reached cental Ky. Severe warnings extended from the TN line up into IN with at least 7 tornado warnings in effect at the same time in KY. As this line got near lexington an area just to the SW was showing signs of a strong Mesocyclone as seen here..
also note the strong tornadic signature on the bottom of the image. eventually this storm lost a little strength as it drew closer to my area. but what we saw was still amazing for a jan storm.
Shortly after viewing this radar scan I decided to see what i could see from here so i went 1/2 block up the road to the school parking lot where wouldnt ya know a very defined gust front was approaching and fast...
I started snapping photos actually got 30 of em before the storm was way too close for comfort since i was on foot at the time as i was headed back home i noted a wall cloud just about overhead and to my SW with some good vertical motion and rotation.. as it passed over i got a few photos of that and took shelter inside as the rain and fairly gusty winds hit. wasnt as bad as it looked on radar We were spared this time.. a county south of me got hit hard by a tornado heres some of the images i captured.Photos From Lexington
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