So far, so good back in Mississippi, with lots of storms, but no major supercells yet.
Possible tornadoes have been reported…
…near Tylertown in Walthall County (east of McComb)
…near Rolling Fork in the Delta
…just east of Cary…also in the Delta
…and 3 miles east of Liberty in Amite County…where a home was destroyed…this is west of McComb. There had been an especially menacing couplet earlier back across the state line in Louisiana with this storm.
But the bad news is that there has been an increase in thunderstorm intensity over the past hour, especially along the main line of storms over western Mississippi. Overall intensity has increased across Central Missisippi as well.
Three severe thunderstorm warnings back to the west in Mississippi and Louisiana, but no tornado warnings.
A tornado watch does cover much of Mississippi until 11 p.m.
Rain has now entered western Alabama. The Skywatcher in Coker reports lightning to his west. Also reports his temperature has gone up 2 degrees since 6. An indication of the warm air being transported north.
A thunderstorm was near Hamilton in Marion County where Melissa Wilson reports lightning and thunder.
Thunderstorms will continue to advance toward Alabama as we head through the evening. The storms will continue to intensify as upper level wind fields strengthen further as a strong low over western Mississippi moves northeast and strengthens. The pressure has dropped to 1003 mb in the low. Up at about 5000 feet, winds are screaming at 60-70 mph from western MIssissippi through Central Mississippi into northwestern Alabama.
We are still in for a long night folks with lots of action still to come with the strong wind fields and increasing instability.
I am in Alexandria, LA where the front passed after 5 p.m. and the temperature dropped 13 degrees in one hour.
