Hazardous weather notice for Stephens issued by NWS

The National Weather Service has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for Stephens and surrounding counties, especially in the southern portions of Stephens County and for Franklin and Hart County.

In addition to the continuing heat advisory, the NWS issued the following notice at 4: 26 p.m. today:

Numerous showers and thunderstorms will develop across the region today, especially from late afternoon through the evening hours. These thunderstorms will produce frequent cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, gusty winds, and torrential rainfall. Isolated flooding of low-lying and poor drainage areas will be possible. The strongest storms may produce damaging wind gusts and hail as large as quarters. Scattered thunderstorms may linger through the overnight hours into early Monday morning.

Showers and thunderstorms will be widespread on Monday and Tuesday. The flooding threat will steadily build across the region during this period and torrential rainfall with any of these storms could quickly produce flash flooding. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms will be possible mainly on Monday, with damaging wind gusts the primary threat.

In addition, a tropical cyclone is expected to strengthen in the
eastern Gulf of Mexico and move northward toward the Florida Gulf Coast on Tuesday. Uncertainty regarding the eventual track is moderate to high, but gusty winds and heavy rainfall from this system could affect the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia Wednesday.