We ahve two clusters of storms marching east-southeast across the area tonight. Both are packing heavy rain, lightning, wind gusts up to 70mph, and hail up to the size of golf balls.
Storm Cluster 1 – As of this writing is leaving Brookhaven and will continue to march to the east-southeast in the coming few hours. It will be sliding over the top of a boundary in place and may briefly ramp up in intensity as it crosses over Highway 84 as it moves through parts of LAwrence, Jeff DAvis and MArion counties. By the time it gets to Lamar and Forrest counties it should start to come down a bit.
But it will still be rather potent even as it comes down.
If you live in any of the mentioned counties and/or inside the bottom blue circle on the image above, be prepared for heavy rain, a ton – like thousands of strikes – of lightning, wind gusts up to 75mph, and the chance to up to golf ball sized hail.
Storm Cluster 2 – is a bit less intense, but is currently moving east-southeast near Magee. This will be moving through some of the same spots that just had a storm pass through. Depending on how much cold air the previous storm put down, it may inhibit this cluster from reaching a higher intensity than it is sitting right now.
This storm will move through parts of Simpson, Smith, Jeff Davis, Covington, Jasper and Jones counties in the next hour and change and will eventually move through Wayne and Greene counties, too.
If you’re in the path of the top blue circle be prepared for heavy rain, lightning, wind gusts up to 60mph, and hail up to the size of quarters.
These storms will kick out of the area later tonight and we should be in a bit of a holding pattern until early tomorrow morning.
The potential storm intensity for tonight is the graph below.
The Storm Timeline shows more chances for rain and storms tomorrow and again on Friday.
