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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
335 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013

VARIABLE CLOUDINESS...WITH AREAS OF PATCHY FOG...WAS PRESENT ACROSS
EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURE READINGS AT 7 AM RANGED
FROM THE UPPER 50S IN THE VALLEYS TO THE MID 60S ON THE RIDGES. THE
TYPICAL LOW FOR THIS DAY IN MAY IS IN THE MID 50S.

BY MID AFTERNOON...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEGUN POPPING UP
ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE AREA. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURE
READINGS WERE GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S...WHICH IS
UNSEASONABLY WARM...WHEN THE TYPICAL HIGH FOR TODAY IS IN THE MID
70S.

A SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO GRADUALLY TRACK FROM
THE PLAINS INTO THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY THROUGH THURSDAY
NIGHT...BRINGING ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SOME
OF THE STORMS THIS EVENING COULD BE SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WINDS
BEING THE MAIN THREAT. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE UPPER 50S AND HIGHS ON THURSDAY WILL BE
IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S.

ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...IN 2001...LIGHTNING STRUCK THE TOP
OF THE HOGG BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON IN BREATHITT COUNTY...
CAUSING A LARGE SECTION OF THE STONEWORK AND BRICKS TO FALL. THE
DEBRIS FELL ON TOP OF AN AWNING...CAUSING IT TO COLLAPSE AND BLOCK
THE ENTRANCE TO A RESTAURANT.

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