Radar Summary…5:35 p.m. CDT

Regional radars tonight show a fairly solid line of rain and thunderstorms extending from east of Nashville to east of Lawrenceburg in Tennessee, then in Alabama to near Town Creek, Haleyville, and Guin. The line extends on into Mississippi from near Columbus to west of Philadelphia to near Jackson.

There is a severe thunderstorm warning for the northwest side of Jackson, including Pocahontas and Ridgeland. A NWS employee just reported a tree down on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Madison County, MS.

There are no warnings in effect for Alabama at this time, but there are special weather statements ahead of the line from Marion and Winston Counties up through eastern Lauderdale, eastern Colbert, Lawrence, Limestone, and a small part of Morgan Counties.

A couple of severe thunderstorm watches continue for much of Mississippi and Northwestern Alabama up into Tennessee. The NWS offices in Memphis and Jackson are clearing the watch as soon as the line passes their locations.

Behind the line, a large area of rain extends across Northwest Mississippi and into northeastern Louisiana.

A second line of storms is trying to form from southern Arkansas near Pine Bluff back into northwest Louisiana between Ruston and Shreveport.

Indications are that the activity currently in eastern Mississippi and northwestern Alabama will weaken with time and shift northeast into Tennessee. The western Mississippi activity is expected to become the dominant activity later this evening. We will have to watch for an isolated severe storm or two after midnight tonight in Northwest Alabama.

Thsi activity will spread into Alabama after midnight The line will slowly sink southeastward tomorrow and should weaken, so it is not expected to be severe.

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