The Covington County Emergency Management Agency continues to follow the possibility of a severe storm to be affecting the area as early as Friday.
This powerful storm system is expected to shift off from the Southern Plains towards and into the Mississippi Valley Thursday night into Friday morning. Officials expect an associated line of storms that will move across the region beginning Friday morning and continuing into Friday afternoon. There is the possibility of some severe to strong storms to form within the line as it travels across the region.
The line is expected to be in the southeast region of Mississippi at around 6. a.m. on Friday, the first day of Friday. The line will move east through the morning hours . It is expected to leave towards the east of the Covington County area in the early afternoon, perhaps around 1 p.m.
The threat of severe weather is continuing to decrease with the most severe threat over the interior Southeast Mississippi along with southwest Alabama towards northern part along the U.S. Highway 84 corridor with less confidence in severe conditions further south. The most significant threat to the region is the possibility of damaging wind gusts exceeding 60 mph, and the possibility of a tornado is not completely ruled out, it is unlikely to happen.
The Covington County region has been reduced from to a “slight” possibility for severe weather from “marginal.” A strong southerly gradient winds are likely to form late Thursday night and early Friday afternoon with gusts of up to forty miles an hour. A Wind Advisory is in effect throughout the region during this period.
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