Tornado Watch 294 in effect until 9 PM EDT this evening...
Rest of Tonight
Chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening...then showers and thunderstorms likely after midnight. Some thunderstorms may be severe. Lows in the upper 60s. West winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south. Chance of rain 60 percent.
Sunday
Showers and thunderstorms likely. Windy. Some thunderstorms may be severe in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the west 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
Tornado Watch 294 remains in effect until 900 PM EDT for the following locations
GA . Georgia counties included are
Baldwin Bibb Bleckley Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Candler Chatham Chattahoochee Columbia Crawford crisp Dodge Dooly Effingham Emanuel Evans Glascock Hancock Harris Houston Jasper Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Laurens Liberty Lincoln long McDuffie McIntosh Macon Marion Meriwether Monroe Montgomery Muscogee Peach Pike Pulaski Putnam Richmond Schley Screven Spalding Stewart Sumter Talbot Tattnall Taylor Telfair Toombs Treutlen Troup Twiggs Upson Warren Washington Webster Wheeler Wilcox Wilkinson
Special Weather Statement
Statement as of 7:32 PM EDT on May 10, 2008
... Significant weather alert for frequent lightning in Wilkinson... Jones... Baldwin... Washington and Hancock counties until 815 PM EDT...
At 731 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated strong thunderstorms from around coopers to Tennille... moving east at 25 mph.
These storms have the potential to produce pea sized hail... frequent cloud to ground lightning and wind gusts to 45 mph as they move across Wilkinson... Jones... Baldwin... Washington and Hancock counties through 815 PM EDT. Some locations in the path of these storms include Scottsboro... Linton... Hardwick... Milledgeville... midway-Hardwick... coopers... Tennille... Sandersville... Warthen... Riddleville and Deepstep. Brief heavy downpours will cause ponding of water on roadways.
Significant weather alerts are issued when winds up to 57 mph are expected... hail is expected to be less than the size of pennies... or significant cloud-to-ground lightning is expected.
