Meteorologist Nicole Hartford storms
continue across North Georgia,
but most of us have been taken out
of the tornado watch at this point.
The only county in our area that
remains in a tornado watch is Upson
County until 9:00 o'clock this evening.
For the rest of us,
the prominent tornado risk has diminished.
We still have the possibility of
some strong to severe storms as
we move into the overnight hours.
These showers and storms have
been pushing eastward.
They're still providing some at times very
heavy rain through portions of the area,
although in the Atlanta Metro right
now just light to moderate rain.
I want to point your eye though out
towards Alabama where we're already
starting to see some redevelopment of
these isolated storms across portions
of Central and eastern Alabama.
Although this first round of
rain is winding down,
we still have more to come.
Right now the heaviest of the
rainfall is out towards the Athens
area as well as into Greensboro.
And that heavier rainfall is
pushing EI mentioned the storms
redeveloping over Alabama.
We're also seeing some redevelopment
down into portions of Mississippi
as well as Louisiana.
And all this rainfall is going to be
working its way up towards the Northeast,
which will keep these showers and
storms in the forecast through
the remainder of the evening,
overnight tonight and even
into early tomorrow morning.
The prominent severe weather
threat has definitely been down
towards the South and the West.
Thus,
we've had a number of tornado warnings
and severe thunderstorm warnings
through Alabama as well as Mississippi.
And while we have had a handful
of tornado warnings as well as
severe thunderstorm warnings here,
the prominent threat continues to be
just down to the southwest of us.
We are included in that level 1 to
level 2 risk for severe weather,
Atlanta and that higher level 2.
So we're going to be looking out for
some storms that could produce still
heavy rainfall as well as gusty.
Potentially damaging winds.
Although our tornado watch has
been suspended,
I'm not going to rule out
an isolated tornado either,
especially as we head into late
tonight early tomorrow morning
after 7:00 o'clock tomorrow morning,
our severe weather threat shifts
down towards the South.
So this is our outlook for tomorrow
with a slight risk South of the
Atlanta Metro and out towards the
East into Athens and then that level
one threat through the Metro Atlanta area.
No severe weather threat after about
7:00 or 8:00 o'clock tomorrow morning
up into far northwest Georgia,
we do have the risk for some heavy
rain that could lead to flooding.
So the National Weather Service
has issued a flood watch for our
Southern counties that will be
in effect into early tomorrow.
So some storms could be capable of
producing some heavy rainfall and
dropping totals of up to two or
three inches in a few locations.
A lot of what we'll see,
especially into the overnight.
Hours and early tomorrow is what
we call training thunderstorms.
These are storms that redevelop
over the same locations and lead
to heavy consistent rainfall,
which in turn leads to flooding.
Here's our forecast track into the overnight,
so we'll continue to see
these showers and storms,
but I think between about now and then,
10:11 o'clock rainfall won't
be quite as widespread.
As we get into the overnight,
rain coverage really starts to pick up.
As does intensity,
we could see again heavy rainfall
as well as some of these storms
that do become strong or severe.
These storms will continue to push
down towards the southeast so that
by 8:00 o'clock tomorrow morning,
we're still seeing rainfall,
which does mean that this could and
likely will have an impact on your
morning commute tomorrow and will make
the roads at least a little bit messier.
These showers and storms finally start
to clear out into early tomorrow morning,
so by noon.
Most of the rain is down
towards the southeast of us.
We're clearing out the rain,
the cloud cover,
and we're giving way to some
sunshine by the afternoon hours
on Wednesday to make for a pretty
comfortable second-half of the day.
In addition to the rain,
which is going to make driving hazardous,
our visibility could also be more limited.
Right now it looks pretty good as
far as fog development is concerned,
but by tomorrow morning we could
have some spots of denser fog
which will again make driving more
hazardous for tomorrow morning.
As far as your seven day outlook goes,
we'll dry out by the end of the day.
Tomorrow.
We'll stay dry into the start of the weekend.
Temperatures are going to be
cooler by Friday.
Your overnight lows fall down into the
30s with high temperatures in the 50s.