Simpson

The National Weather Service in Jackson has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Rankin County in central Mississippi...
this includes the cities of... Star... Richland... Pearl... Flowood...
Brandon...
northern Simpson County in central Mississippi...
this includes the cities of... Pinola... Mendenhall...

* until 1245 am CDT

* at 1135 PM CDT... National Weather Service meteorologists detected a
line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in
excess of 60 mph. These storms were located along a line extending
from 15 miles northwest of Goshen Springs to 17 miles west of
Richland moving southeast at 35 mph.

* Severe thunderstorms will be near...
Flowood by 1155 PM CDT...
Goshen Springs... Fannin... Richland and Pearl by midnight CDT...
Pisgah... whites... Florence and Brandon by 1205 am CDT...
Monterey by 1210 am CDT...

Precautionary/preparedness actions...

Winds of 60 mph can bring down trees... possibly resulting in injury
and property damage. Roofs of Mobile homes and outbuildings could be
damaged... and minor roof damage to well built homes and structures
could occur.

This storm has a history of producing wind damage across. This is an
extremely dangerous situation. Seek shelter now inside a sturdy
structure and stay away from windows!

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 200 am CDT
Wednesday morning for southeast Arkansas and northeast Louisiana and
Mississippi.


Lat... Lon 3201 9023 3229 9017 3229 9016 3232 9016
      3235 9011 3238 9010 3239 9007 3243 9007
      3248 9002 3249 8996 3259 8984 3259 8979
      3234 8973 3195 8973 3188 8984 3187 9013
time... Mot... loc 0435z 297deg 31kt 3256 9013 3223 9046


Cme

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 209 remains valid until 2 am CDT
Wednesday for the following areas

In Louisiana this watch includes 3 parishes

In northeast Louisiana

Catahoula Concordia Tensas

In Mississippi this watch includes 28 counties

In central Mississippi

Attala Choctaw Copiah
Hinds Holmes Leake
Madison Rankin Scott
Simpson Yazoo

In east central Mississippi

Neshoba Noxubee Winston

In north central Mississippi

Carroll Grenada Montgomery
Webster

In northeast Mississippi

Clay Lowndes Oktibbeha

In south central Mississippi

Lawrence Lincoln

In southwest Mississippi

Adams Claiborne Franklin
Jefferson

In west central Mississippi

Warren

This includes the cities of... Ackerman... Brandon... Brookhaven...
Brooksville... Bude... Canton... Carrollton... Carthage... Columbus...
Crystal Springs... Durant... Eupora... Fayette... Ferriday... Forest...
Goodman... Grenada... Harrisonburg... Hazlehurst... Jackson...
Jonesville... Kosciusko... Lexington... Louisville... Maben... Macon...
Madison... Magee... Mathiston... Meadville... Mendenhall...
Monticello... Morton... Natchez... New Hebron... Newellton...
North Carrollton... Pearl... Pearl River... Philadelphia... Pickens...
Port Gibson... Richland... Ridgeland... Roxie... St. Joseph...
Starkville... Tchula... Vaiden... Vicksburg... Vidalia... Waterproof...
Weir... Wesson... west Ferriday... West Point...
Winona and Yazoo City.