Severe storms are expected Saturday afternoon and into early Sunday morning across the Wiregrass.
Two potential waves of severe weather are possible, according to Charles B. Finney, communications and planning officer for Dothan/Houston County Emergency Management Agency.
The first will come with a warm front early Saturday afternoon and another with a squall line Saturday evening and into early Sunday.
The storm system will develop across the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday morning and move across the area, said Kelly Godsey, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Tallahassee, Fla.
“We’re looking for some showers and thunderstorms in the early afternoon and then a line of showers and thunderstorms across the area Saturday evening and into Saturday night,” Godsey said.
The forecast calls for a prevailing southeast wind between 5 and 10 mph, but the storms could produce strong wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall.
“When you’re talking about severe weather, you’re talking about wind gusts potentially as high as 60 mph,” Godsey said.
Isolated tornadoes and damaging winds are possible, Finney said.
The severe weather is being caused by an energetic storm system spreading eastward across the lower Mississippi River valley into the Southeast, drawing a warm and moist Gulf air mass northward across the region, according to the NWS.
Showers are possible Friday after 8 a.m. Skies will be mostly cloudy with a high near 71 and a 40 percent chance of rain Friday during the day and night.
The chance of rain is 80 percent on Saturday, but mostly sunny skies are forecast on Sunday. The chance of showers before noon on Sunday is 20 percent.
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