The SPC has issued a tornado warning (yellow shaded area) for much of the area until 4 a.m. CT Sunday morning. A line of severe storms is expected to move through the coming hours and into the night, with widespread damaging winds, large hail and isolated tornadoes. Some of the wind gusts could reach 75 mph, and an isolated strong EF2+ tornado is possible. This line of storms is currently over eastern MS and is dotted with tornado warnings (red polygons). This line should reach the state line around 9pm, the Birmingham subway and I-65 around midnight, and enter GA around dawn tomorrow morning.

There may be an expanded corridor of more widespread damaging winds in portions of Choctaw, Marengo, Hale, Sumter, Pickens, Greene and Tuscaloosa counties where a bow echo could develop. We will be monitoring this closely and recommend that you treat severe thunderstorm warnings this evening as a tornado warning and move to your designated shelter. Regardless of whether these storms are tornadoes, these storms can produce widespread and in some cases significant straight-line wind damage similar to that of a small tornado. We also expect numerous power outages.

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