Jan 2008 Review One heck of a Month

So where to start Jan 2008 will go down across West KY as having near to normal to slighty above normal tempartures. Normal and Jan 2008 dont go hand and hand though. A cold snap assualted the area at the first of the month, then followed by record high temps in the low 70's on Jan 7th. This led to a round of some strong to severe weather with funnel clouds, wall clouds, tornado warnings, and wind gusts of 50-60mph scattered across West KY limited damage occured. Then down south severe weather broke out in TN on the 10th followed by some flooding around Chrisitan and Todd Counties and a few storms moving in excess of 80mph.

Colder air plunged tohugh the area by next week and a light suprise snow event due to evap. cooling and wetbublbing occured across West KY on the 16th of Jan on the 5th year annviersery of a snowstorm that hit the area in 2003. AMounts of 1-3 inches were reported in Union, Henderson, Daviess, Webster counties with less than an inch in most all of west KY. Then colder air continued we busted on a Winter Weather Advisory sitaution on Jan 22nd. Then we got briefly warmer in LAte Jan where the biggest weather event occured a major wind storm struck on the 29th. This brought widespread damage from non and thunderstorm winds alike including a 90MPH non thunderstorm windevent in Hickman KY. A derecho formed causing a lot of damage and1 injury to the 22 counties of west KY.

Then a light snowfall fell to end the month. 1 to 1.5 icnhes fell around Hopkinsville and Elkton areas with around 1 inch amounts farther west on the morning of Jan 31st. Then 1-2 inches fall in Paduach and Crittenden County area to end the month and to start Feb.