I'm meteorologist Nicole Hartford.
We begin with a look at storms as
two areas of rainfall are working
their way across the state.
One of those is moving out,
the other associated with an
incoming cold front, is moving in.
We're seeing heavy rainfall,
especially down to the South of us,
where rain and a lot of it has
led to some flooding issues,
especially through Upson and Lamar
counties where a flash flood warning does
remain in effect there until 11:15 this.
Evening you'll notice though,
that a lot of the heaviest of this activity.
A lot of the lightning associated with
it is now down to the South of our area,
and these showers and storms are moving out.
We do have a couple isolated
showers and storms developing,
kind of in between those
two areas of rainfall,
and these are quickly strengthening
off into eastern Alabama,
producing heavy rainfall as well
as frequent lightning there.
I want to take off the lightning just
to show you how much of that rain
is currently taking place across.
Really central Georgia,
where there is a tornado warning
in effect outside of our area
southeast of Macon where we're
looking for our potential for strong.
And yes, maybe even severe storms.
Is this line of rainfall associated
with our incoming cold front?
This is moving really slowly down towards
the southeast at only about 20 mph,
so down towards Calhoun into Rome.
You'll likely start to see some of
that heavier rainfall associated
with it within about the next
10 minutes we have seen.
A little weakening of some of these storms
over the course of the last hour or so.
But there's still some development down
towards the southwest of our area as well,
so we're seeing these two areas of
rainfall situated across the state.
They do come with the potential
for some strong to severe storms.
Tornado watch still in effect
for portions of our area,
but the National Weather Service
has actually just taken this away
for really much of our area.
So the tornado watches down towards
the South of us into central Georgia.
And then there's a few counties
up into North Georgia.
Still under that tornado watch
until 10:00 o'clock this evening.
As far as our severe weather threat goes,
we remain in that Level 3 risk
for severe storms,
as that line of storms makes its
way across the state through the
evening and into the overnight.
That does mean that strong to severe
storms are certainly possible as far
as what types of severe weather.
I think the winds are mainly what
we're going to be looking out
for here with a moderate risk for
some damaging winds as well As for
some heavy rainfall.
Kale our threat is low, but it's there.
Some of these storms have been
producing up to about dime sized
hail in a few locations.
Our tornado threat is low.
It's not zero,
but it's low.
This is a look at our tornado environment.
As you can tell based on this scale where
we have higher tornado environment,
so where the atmosphere is a little
more conducive for strong thunderstorm
development as well as tornado development,
that's where you see the oranges,
the Reds, the pinks,
most of our area only seeing.
Rays as this system moves through.
So while our tornado threat is there,
it is going to be low.
So far much of our problems have come
from the heavy rainfall we've had totals
up to four or five inches through
portions of Lamar and Epstein counties.
We've also picked up on just over 2
1/2 inches South and West of the city.
These storms that are currently
moving through into the Northwest.
They're not as widespread,
so totals are not expected to
be quite as high there,
but they could still lead to some localized.
Cooling on your roadways or
even streams and creeks.
Getting a little bit swollen because of that.
There's still a flood watch in effect
mainly down towards the South of us,
but some of our Southern counties
are included in that flood watch.
There is also, as I mentioned,
that flash flood warning in effect
for portions of Upson as well as Lamar
counties and that flash flood warning
goes until 11:00 o'clock tonight.
The watch goes until tomorrow
morning as far as how long it will
take these storms to move through
because they are so slow.
Moving,
we're gonna watch as these storms roll
through through much of the overnight.
So by 11:00 o'clock.
These storms likely still have
not reached the Atlanta Metro.
We're talking about a midnight arrival
notice as well that these storms do
start to weaken and the actual line of
storms does not look quite as distinct.
That's good news.
The one thing that's really gonna
work in our favor when it comes to
our severe weather threat is that
the storms down to the South of us
have been wary, very widespread,
and they've also taken a lot out
of the atmosphere.
It's made our atmosphere a
little more stable,
which keeps our severe weather
threat a little bit lower.
These storms will continue working
down towards the southeast.
I'll be breaking them down more and
I will also have a look at what to
expect in the coming days coming up.