A slight risk of severe thunderstorms continues today across southeast Louisiana—including the entire Capital Region—and southern Mississippi, according to the National Weather Service’s New Orleans-Baton Rouge forecast office. The highest risk of severe thunderstorm activity will occur late this evening into tonight, the NWS writes in today’s hazardous weather outlook, noting that overall atmospheric profiles are highly favorable to damaging winds and isolated tornadoes with these severe thunderstorms.
A slight risk of severe thunderstorms also exists for Friday night into early Saturday morning. Parts of northeast Louisiana, southeast Arkansas, west-central Mississippi and western Tennessee have been upgraded to a moderate risk. “This event has the potential to produce the most widespread severe weather,” the NWS writes, including tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, continuous lightning and very heavy rainfall.
Additional heavy rainfall is possible through early Saturday, with some areas receiving as much as three inches by Friday morning and another three inches Friday night into Saturday morning.
To monitor this developing weather situation, click here for the NWS’ New Orleans-Baton Rouge forecast office and here for the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla.
