Saturday morning severe weather threat ending

The National Weather Service, however, had issued tornado warnings in Georgia at 4am local time (9am GMT).

“We recommend everyone in the areas that could be affected to determine your safe-place in your home”, said Jeanie McDermott, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Florida.

While just a northwest sliver of Palm Beach County is now in a zone of where there is a 15 percent chance of strong to severe thunderstorms, the system is worth keeping an eye on through the weekend.

The Lowcountry is expected to see strong and potentially unsafe thunderstorms beginning Sunday afternoon and lasting into the late evening hours. A slight risk means scattered severe storms will be possible; a marginal risk means the severe weather could be more isolated. We need to monitor our radio stations, television and NOAA Weather Radio.

Severe thunderstorms swept across Southeast Georgia Sunday, with further storms expected for Northeast Florida as well.

“Our severe weather risk is about a “three” on a scale of one to five”. A tornado warning was announced around 9:07 p.m. for Hinds, Madison, and Scott counties, but had cleared for the metro area within about 10 minutes.

The severe threat will shift to east Alabama by early Sunday.

A strong cold front arrives by Thursday and returns winter to SE Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

The first of several anticipated weather alerts could come later Sunday afternoon. High temperatures on Saturday and Sunday will be in the middle 60s and then cool into the mid-upper 50s on Monday. Localized tornado warnings have been issued by the NWS, when there have been tornadoes reported by people, or indicated by Doppler radar, or both. This, too, can trigger cases of developing tornadoes and strong, gusty storm-related winds.

The Storm Prediction Center now indicates conditions are favorable for a few strong tornadoes over our area tonight.