Francine weakens to tropical storm still expected to bring rain, wind and storm risk Thursday and Fr

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We have a weather impact alert this morning for you. Nicole Hartman is tracking it for you. Yes, that weather impact alert for today as well as tomorrow. It's all associated with what is now tropical storm Francine. This is weakening rapidly. It was a hurricane category two upon landfall yesterday evening. It's now down to that tropical storm producing sustained winds about 45 MPH. But a lot of rainfall, this will tropical moisture throughout the southeast which will lead to some high rainfall totals. We've already seen some spots with nearly a foot of rain accumulation through portions of Louisiana. And we're talking pretty similar totals 57 inches across stretches of Mississippi as well as into Alabama. Maybe not quite as extreme here. But I think widespread totals of 2 to 4 inches are still possible and some localized higher totals even throughout the course of the next couple of days. Because of that, a flood watch will be in effect through tomorrow night, southwest of the Atlanta Metro. And that flood watch extends out towards our west as well for all locations that will be impacted by what will eventually be the remnants of Francine, a lot of rainfall throughout the coming days and it's already beginning for us. Some of those outer rain bands are stretching up into North Georgia. You can see these are very far out of rain bands. They are light. A lot of the heavier rain is off towards the west in the portions of Mississippi, as well as down towards the Florida Panhandle. This area highlighted in the red Pentagon here. That's where we also have a high tornado threat with a tornado watch that will be in effect today with some brief spin ups possible. Right now, light rainfall stretching through the Atlanta Metro. There are some drier locations we'll see on and off light rain throughout the next couple of hours. By lunchtime, some of the heavier rainfall starts to push in a few isolated embedded thunderstorms possible later this afternoon, but maybe not quite as widespread when it comes to coverage. This will just continue on and off throughout the day today into tomorrow and potentially even into the weekend as well. And it does come with that risk for some severe weather and maybe even a and tornado threat. I mentioned the possible spin ups that tornado watch along the gulf coast. That's certainly where the tornado threat is the highest. But typically with these land falling tropical systems, we do see tropical tornadoes. These are brief spin ups along the northeastern quadrant of the center of circulation and that's where we are because of that. The marginal threat extends into portions of our area for both today and tomorrow and tomorrow, we could also see some storms that produce very gusty winds. Winds not associated with any thunderstorms just associated with the tropics. Also gonna be gusty today. It's already a little breezier this morning, but the strongest winds will be during the second half of the day where gusts of up to 3035 MPH are possible. So a wind advisory will be in effect throughout tonight and into early tomorrow morning when winds will be the strongest. So some strong gusts could knock around power lines, tree limbs even lead to down trees and isolated power outages throughout the day. Today, that weather impact alert in effect today and tomorrow will keep rain in the forecast for Saturday and Sunday, depending on how heavy it is. That may mean that our flood risk also stretches into the weekend as well. That tropical moisture will be hard to shake rainfall chances linger even into next week.

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