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Mississippi storms spawn imaginable tornadoes; terrible upwind menace continues overnight
Potential remains for strong, long-track tornadoes
Mississippi storms produced imaginable tornadoes and immoderate harm crossed the state. Radar | Alerts | Closings | Download WAPT appThe storms volition proceed done Tuesday nighttime and into Wednesday morning, according to the 16 WAPT Weather Team.Several threats enactment up with the terrible weather, including:Damaging upwind gusts 60-80 mph.Large hail 2-plus inches successful diameter.Tornadoes, immoderate beardown (EF2-plus) and/or long-lived (on the crushed for an extended time). Tornadoes, connected average, are connected the crushed for astir 5-10 minutes. Long-track tornadoes tin beryllium connected the crushed for hours.Flash flooding (Pine Belt, Lawrence, Jefferson Davis counties). A flash flood ticker is successful effect for these areas until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Rainfall totals could adhd up to 3-5 inches successful this area.Wind gusts up to 90 mph were reported astatine astir 6 p.m. from a imaginable tornado successful the Kosciusko area.A confirmed tornado was spotted aft 5 p.m. Tuesday successful the downtown Bassfield area. Jefferson Davis County exigency officials said determination was nary structural harm reported arsenic of 6 p.m., but trees and powerfulness lines were down on Highway 42 from Bassfield to Melba. Trees besides fell connected Highway 35 betwixt Jefferson Davis and Marion counties. At astir 4 p.m., determination were reports of winds up to 50 mph and hail arsenic ample arsenic 3 inches adjacent the Holmes-Carroll County line.Areas from Leake County to the metro and SW volition spot the main menace moving successful good aboriginal Tuesday night. The aforesaid volition spell for areas southbound of Highway 84 and eastbound of the metro. Storms volition wide retired of the country by 3 a.m. Wednesday. How to get upwind alerts from 16 WAPT Make definite to person ways of getting alerts Tuesday and overnight, astatine slightest 1 being capable to beryllium large capable to aftermath you up if a informing is issued overnight successful your area.
JACKSON, Miss. —
Mississippi storms produced imaginable tornadoes and immoderate harm crossed the state.
Radar | Alerts | Closings | Download WAPT app
The storms volition proceed done Tuesday nighttime and into Wednesday morning, according to the 16 WAPT Weather Team.
Several threats enactment up with the terrible weather, including:
- Damaging upwind gusts 60-80 mph.
- Large hail 2-plus inches successful diameter.
- Tornadoes, immoderate beardown (EF2-plus) and/or long-lived (on the crushed for an extended time). Tornadoes, connected average, are connected the crushed for astir 5-10 minutes. Long-track tornadoes tin beryllium connected the crushed for hours.
- Flash flooding (Pine Belt, Lawrence, Jefferson Davis counties). A flash flood ticker is successful effect for these areas until 6 a.m. Wednesday. Rainfall totals could adhd up to 3-5 inches successful this area.
Wind gusts up to 90 mph were reported astatine astir 6 p.m. from a imaginable tornado successful the Kosciusko area.
A confirmed tornado was spotted aft 5 p.m. Tuesday successful the downtown Bassfield area. Jefferson Davis County exigency officials said determination was nary structural harm reported arsenic of 6 p.m., but trees and powerfulness lines were down on Highway 42 from Bassfield to Melba. Trees besides fell connected Highway 35 betwixt Jefferson Davis and Marion counties.
At astir 4 p.m., determination were reports of winds up to 50 mph and hail arsenic ample arsenic 3 inches adjacent the Holmes-Carroll County line.
Areas from Leake County to the metro and SW volition spot the main menace moving successful good aboriginal Tuesday night. The aforesaid volition spell for areas southbound of Highway 84 and eastbound of the metro.
Storms volition wide retired of the country by 3 a.m. Wednesday.
How to get upwind alerts from 16 WAPT
Make definite to person ways of getting alerts Tuesday and overnight, astatine slightest 1 being capable to beryllium large capable to aftermath you up if a informing is issued overnight successful your area.
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