You know, Cheryl, that's a great moment.
We got a pivot though to the weather
because I just got a new update in
from the storm production center.
They have decided to issue
a new tornado watch.
This is going to be for southwestern
Georgia and extends all the way
up into parts of our viewing area.
So this is LaGrange right here.
This is Troup County,
Merriweather County and also Harrelson
County where we have this rather heard
county where we have this tornado watch.
This is going to run until
7:00 o'clock tonight.
So that is an addition.
To Randolph County to Alabama,
which already has a tornado watch
until 6:00 PM Eastern 5:00 o'clock
central time later on today.
So that is the new tornado watch just
came out moments ago right before
we came on for this weather update.
And in Atlanta we don't have
a watch at the moment,
but we have to be prepared for what's
on the way later today because we
are breaking into a little bit of
sunshine here in the metro that allows
for the atmosphere to re energize
and that's more fuel for these
thunderstorms that are developing West of us.
And pushing in this afternoon.
So we're in a low right now.
If you're in Atlanta,
there's nothing happening
immediately in the next 20 minutes.
But look at this,
these showers and storms pushing
through Alabama right now,
they're now moving across the state line.
They are starting to push into
some of our western counties.
And so very shortly you'll notice
after that brief period of sunshine,
clouds are going to move back in
and some intense storms will likely
follow and this batch of storms
will kind of ride right along this
I-20 corridor in the north side of
town as well they're moving from.
To east,
there are some warnings out in
Alabama for damaging winds and hail,
a lot of heavy rain and lightning as well.
And again,
these are right along and just
north of the I-20 corridor.
So as we zoom in towards Haralson County,
we got one of those storms just
north of Bremen that's going to push
eastward eventually in towards Villa Rica,
moving in towards southern
Paulding County as well.
And if it holds together,
which we do expect,
it should arrive in Atlanta here as
we get into early this afternoon.
South side of time,
some more scattered showers.
Not seeing any lightning in those right now,
but the severe weather threat is,
as you've been seeing,
that level 4 risk of severe weather.
It is the highest across central
and southern Georgia.
We are set up with that sunshine
breaking out for some of these storms
to turn strong and severe here in the metro.
So damaging winds will be our
primary severe weather player.
Tornado threat is not zero.
Also there could be some hail and
I want to show you the tornado
outlook for today.
You see this yellow hashed area where
the lines are kind of scattered.
This is where we could see some
more significant strong tornadoes.
So that is in central and southern Georgia,
closer to the Columbus area for us.
That tornado risk is kind
of in that low end scale,
but it's something we're going to watch
as this next wave of storms moves in.
Looking live right now, Rome,
we've been watching the clouds moving in,
flags are blowing.
But in Atlanta, look at this.
Here's that sunshine I was mentioning
starting to peek through the clouds.
So if we see more of that sunshine,
that increases our severe weather chances.
If the clouds move in quicker,
which they eventually will
as the storms move in,
then that will help to limit
the overall severe potential.
But in Atlanta right now it is 74,
It's very humid outside as well,
70 in Duluth breaking into some
sunshine out near Covington.
We're at 7272 in Peachtree City.
So here is the hour by hour
forecast track for today.
This is not.
Exactly how radar is going to play out,
but it's an idea of what
things might look like.
Here comes this next wave of
showers and storms pushing in.
I've paused things at 5:00 o'clock
so you can see we have a lot of
these storms around the metro.
It may not be raining everywhere,
but it's this next active window for us,
which is starting right now and will
carry through the evening commute.
Some of these storms could be intense,
some of them could be severe.
Have a way to get warnings as
you're out and about today.
These will impact your evening commute.
Tomorrow, more scattered showers and storm.
I think especially around that afternoon to
evening commute timeframe will be likely.
We will catch a break on Friday.
A few more showers and storms.
Move in for your Father's Day weekend,
Cheryl.
All right, Melissa,
thanks for watching all that.
We will break in as soon as we
have any other new information on
this ongoing weather situation.