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REGIONAL WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
402 PM EDT THU MAR 14 2013

A BRISK MORNING...WITH AREAS OF FROST...GREETED COMMUTERS ACROSS
EASTERN KENTUCKY. MOST TEMPERATURE READINGS AT 7 AM RANGED FROM THE
UPPER TEENS TO LOWER 20S. THE TYPICAL LOW FOR THIS DAY IN MARCH IS
IN THE MID 30S. SNOWFALL TOTALS WERE LIGHT...WITH MOST LOCATIONS
REPORTING ONLY A TRACE WITHIN THE LAST TWENTY FOUR HOURS...HOWEVER...
PRESTONSBURG IN FLOYD COUNTY REPORTED 6 TENTHS OF AN INCH AND
WHITESBURG IN LETCHER COUNTY REPORTED 5 TENTHS OF AN INCH DURING THE
LAST TWENTY FOUR HOURS.

BY MID AFTERNOON...THE COALFIELDS WERE UNDER PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY
SKIES WITH TEMPERATURE READINGS IN THE LOW TO MID 40S AT MOST
LOCATIONS. THESE READINGS ARE SUBSTANTIALLY COOLER THAN THE NORMAL
HIGH IN THE MID 50S FOR THE MIDDLE OF MARCH.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS
EVENING...BRINGING INCREASING CLOUDS ALONG WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS...MAINLY TO THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE COALFIELDS. A
SHORT LULL IN THE PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR ON FRIDAY...WITH A CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON AS A
SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT DROPS IN FROM THE NORTH AND STALLS ACROSS THE
AREA THIS WEEKEND. SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM
THAT OCCURS ON FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW LATE
SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...MAINLY NORTH OF I64.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES FROM LATE SUNDAY
THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 30S AND
HIGHS ON FRIDAY WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 60S.

ON THIS DATE IN WEATHER HISTORY...A TORNADO MOVED ACROSS CLAIBORNE
AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE...CROSSING INTO BELL
COUNTY...KENTUCKY. THIS TORNADO CAUSED 12 DEATHS AND 162 INJURIES.
THE TORNADO WAS 200 YARDS WIDE...AND WAS REPORTEDLY ON THE GROUND
FOR 30 MILES.

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