9/5/2025 9:04:00 PM until 9/5/2025 9:30:00 PM

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 100 AM EDT for east central Kentucky.

At 904 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Westbend, or 8 miles southwest of Mount Sterling, moving northeast at 30 mph. HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Mount Sterling, Jeffersonville, Camargo, Clay Lick, Levee, Walkers Crossing, Cedar Groves, Flat Creek, Coons Station, Stepstone, Bean, Gatewoods Station, Prewitt, Stoops, Peeled Oak, Ewington, Westbend, Howards Mill, Wades Mill, and Upper Spencer. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS... Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway between mile markers 12 and 13. Interstate 64 in eastern Kentucky between mile markers 106 and 117.