The Storm Prediction Center has extended eastward a Tornado Watch and also the expiration time is at 9:00 tonight.
The Tornado Watch covers extreme East Arkansas, about the north third of Mississippi, the west half of Tennessee and the west half of Kentucky. The watch comes over the the NE Mississippi/NW Alabama border.
We will watch these storms as they move into Central Alabama late tonight.
POSITION REPORT ON STORMS
The main line of thunderstorms now extends from the east edge of Texas across NW and North Louisiana, across SE Arkansas to near Memphis and then northward along the Arkansas/Tennessee border into Southern Illinois and Indiana. Some of the strongest storms were over SE Arkansas.
Out ahead of that line of storms, other scattered ones were developing over Central Louisiana and Western Mississippi.
A number of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings have been issued this afternoon from the NWS offices in Memphis, Little Rock, Shreveport and Jackson. Three Tornado Warnings have been issued from Memphis since 1:00. The latest warning was for a possible tornado in Dunklin County in SE Missouri and NW Pemiscot County in the same general area.
