Posted: 10:22 AM Aug 3, 2012
Reporter: Jeff Burrowes

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 10 PM for much of central Mississippi and Alabama.

In includes counties along and north of Highway 80. In the Newscenter 11 vieiwng area these counties are included: (in Mississippi) Lauderdale, Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Scott, Winston, (in Alabama) Marengo, Sumter, Greene, Hale, and Pickens.

The following is the text information from the Storm Prediction Center regarding the watch:


URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 552
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1215 PM CDT FRI AUG 3 2012

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

CENTRAL ALABAMA
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI

EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 1215 PM UNTIL
700 PM CDT.

HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70
MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50
STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH
SOUTHWEST OF GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI TO 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF SELMA
ALABAMA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

DISCUSSION...DIFFERENTIAL HEATING ON THE S EDGE OF A CLOUD BAND
ACROSS NRN MS/AL WILL PROMOTE NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS CENTRAL MS/AL. STRONG INSTABILITY IS ALREADY
PRESENT ACROSS THIS AREA /MLCAPE AOA 3000 J PER KG/...AND EFFECTIVE
BULK SHEAR OF 25-30 KT WILL SUPPORT A RISK FOR ORGANIZED MULTICELL
CLUSTERS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND ISOLATED
LARGE HAIL THIS AFTERNOON.

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