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Areas of Excessive Rainfall and Severe Thunderstorms for Friday

Heavy to excessive rainfall may produce areas of flooding Friday and Friday night from central Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are expected from central Texas to middle Tennessee and central Kentucky Friday afternoon into early Friday night. Large hail and damaging winds are the main threats. Read More >

Around 11:15am on Sunday June 24th, a tornado briefly touched down approximately 19 miles southwest of Walden. This was determined based on social media videos, photos, trained spotter reports, public reports, and radar data. No damage has been reported with this tornado. This tornado will be rated an EF-0 unless reports of damage surface. If additional data is received this report will be updated. This is only the second documented tornado in Jackson County since 1950. The first reported tornado was May 10th 1974.