Friday, May 11, 2007

Radar Update!

Here's the text on the storm over Choctaw County from the National Weather Service in Mobile.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IS BEING DETECTED OVER CHOCTAW COUNTY...AT 636 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED ASTRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER PARAGON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 8 MPH.THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND AROUND...WIMBLY...GILBERTOWN...CHAPPELL HILL...LOU AND SOUWILPA THROUGH 715 PMCDT.THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS CLOUDTO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH...WHICH COULDDOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEKSHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN ASHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN BRIEF PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOWLYING AREAS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVEREDROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.

Labels:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home

Enter your email address to receive daily updates from the Newscenter 11 Weather Blog:

Delivered by FeedBurner

!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->