Published on: December 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM

Leake County warning

The storm of the hour is in Central Mississippi southwest of Columbus.

The most dangerous part of the storm is 14 miles southwest of Noxapater.

Doppler radar at Jackson shows 100 knot gate to gate shear at 6000 feet on this storm indicating strong rotation. It is moving into an area of extremely high wind shear.

The NWS in Jackson has a tornado warning out for Attala, Leake, Neshoba and Winston counties until 915 p.m. CST.

DOWNSTREAM…
The storm will affect Greene County in West Alabama just before 10 p.m.

We have a Skywatcher report from Lamar County of 67F dewpoint. This indicates increasing instability that could support strong updrafts that will rotate.

The dewpoint at Columbus is now 68F.