SUMMARY…Threat for damaging wind gusts and perhaps a brief tornado will continue across central/east-central MS and west-central AL for the next few hours.
DISCUSSION…Regional radar imagery reveals two somewhat more organized storm clusters, one moving through Calhoun county MS and the other in Holmes and Carroll counties in central MS. Downstream air mass, particularly immediately downstream of the Holmes/Carroll cluster, appears favorable for storm persistence and perhaps strengthening. In this area, a corridor of slightly higher dewpoints (i.e. around 64 deg F) exists amidst moderate southerly surface winds and strong vertical shear. Storm motion of both of these storms is northeasterly at 45 kt, taking them to the MS/AL border around 00Z. A extension in time will be needed for a few southern counties Tornado Watch 13 given its current expiration time of 23Z.
