Officials with the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center are forecasting a significant chance of a tornado outbreak across western Kentucky and Tennessee as well as in southern Illinois, Indiana and Missouri Wednesday evening.
Early Wednesday morning, the Prediction Center published updated guidance warning that there will be a high chance of severe weather in the lower Ohio Valley, the Middle Mississippi Valley and the eastern Ozarks. Communities across the Purchase Area and in much of the Pennyrile Area have the highest risk of severe weather.
For days, NWS officials in the Paducah office have warned that the storm system expected to enter the region Wednesday afternoon could produce severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes…