A large mass of rain covers much of the state of Mississippi and extreme western Alabama this evening.
Thunderstorms are embedded in the rain back over Central and Southwest Mississippi.
A large area of moderate rain covers North Central Mississippi from Greenwood to Columbus. This activity will move into Northwest Alabama over the next few hours.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms were in the Jackson area. Lots of lightning and very heavy rain with these clusters of storms. Some hourly rainfall rates in this activity has been over an inch an hour.
Some intense thunderstorms were just southwest of the Jackson area. Severe thunderstorm warnings continue for a line segment in this area.
The activity in Mississippi is moving NE at 40 mph.
My projection is that this activity will reach Sumter, Greene and perhaps Pickens Counties around 9 p.m.
It looks like a stormy night tonight for areas near and south of I-59.
The storms will initially be elevated, but likely become gradually surface based after midnight.
Severe weather is possible over North Central Alabama overnight, but more likely south of a line from Linden to Montgomery to Eufaula.
