Weather Talk: Severe weather awareness week is a good time to review

These storms will likely come in two rounds; the first round will move in during the morning hours, and if any sunshine breaks out, round two of thunderstorms could turn strong.

The National Weather Service has released a hazardous weather outlook for severe thunderstorms Wednesday night through Monday for St. Francois and its surrounding counties.

If the warm, humid air struggles to move back into the area on Friday, then the severe storm risk may end up only across far southern Oklahoma and north Texas. Flash flooding along with damaging winds and a few pockets of rotation will be possible. It appears the greatest hazards with this system will be damaging winds and hail, but an isolated tornado can not be ruled out. The Storm Prediction center has already issued an enhanced risk for severe weather tomorrow which means hail, damaging winds, and isolated weak tornadoes are possible.

This week is severe weather awareness week. The threat will shift to Little Rock, Arkansas, and Shreveport, Louisiana, on Wednesday.

It damaged a mobile home and trees.

Risks include strong winds, heavy rain and tornadoes, mostly for southwest MS and areas north and west of Gulfport to the mouth of the Atchafalaya River line. But as this high sinks down across the Midwest, our wind will ease tonight.

The strongest thunderstorms could also be capable of producing blinding and flooding downpours, as well as hail.

Sunday's storm potential: As it stands now, Sunday (mainly afternoon and evening) looks like the day to circle on the calendar to really be ready for some active storms.

Residents of the South Central states may not be able to let their guard down following the late-week threat.

"We still could get some strong storms with some wind gusts, but they should be on the weakening trend".