Weather Alerts For McCool, MS

A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN ATTALA AND SOUTHWESTERN WINSTON COUNTIES # SUMMARY -------------------- At 123 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Zama, or 15 miles east of Kosciusko, moving east at 40 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD 60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR Louisville and Noxapater around 135 PM CDT. ISSUED AT Monday, June 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM CDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Jackson MS HEADER Severe Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Attala MS, Winston MS

# SUMMARY -------------------- THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 374 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MISSISSIPPI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 26 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI ATTALA CHOCTAW COPIAH HINDS LEAKE MADISON RANKIN SCOTT SIMPSON SMITH YAZOO IN EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI CLARKE JASPER KEMPER LAUDERDALE NESHOBA NEWTON NOXUBEE WINSTON IN NORTH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI MONTGOMERY WEBSTER IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CLAY LOWNDES OKTIBBEHA IN SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI CLAIBORNE IN WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI WARREN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ACKERMAN, BAY SPRINGS, BRANDON, BROOKSVILLE, CANTON, CARTHAGE, COLUMBUS, CONEHATTA, CRYSTAL SPRINGS, DE KALB, DECATUR, EUPORA, FOREST, HAZLEHURST, HEIDELBERG, JACKSON, KOSCIUSKO, LOUISVILLE, MACON, MADISON, MAGEE, MATHISTON, MENDENHALL, MERIDIAN, MORTON, NEWTON, PEARL, PEARL RIVER, PHILADELPHIA, PORT GIBSON, QUITMAN, RALEIGH, RICHLAND, RIDGELAND, SCOOBA, SHUBUTA, STARKVILLE, STONEWALL, TAYLORSVILLE, UNION, VICKSBURG, WEIR, WESSON, WEST POINT, WINONA, AND YAZOO CITY. # DETAILS -------------------- ISSUED AT Monday, June 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM CDT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS HEADER WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 374

Closest strike: 0.81 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARTS OF THE SOUTHEAST TO THE MID-ATLANTIC...AND ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN/CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS SUMMARY Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds and perhaps a couple of tornadoes should occur this afternoon and evening across portions of the Mid-Atlantic into the Southeast. Scattered severe thunderstorms are also expected across the northern/central High Plains, with large to very large hail the main threat. Mid Atlantic Relatively fast zonal flow is present today from the OH Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast US, with a shortwave trough evident over OH/MI. As this feature tracks eastward, it will push a surface cold front southward across the central Appalachians and into the Mid-Atlantic region. Considerable clouds are present ahead of the front from KY/WV into VA/PA/NJ, limiting destabilization and confidence in the details of where clusters of storms may form later today. However, given the relatively strong winds aloft and dewpoints in the 60s, it would seem likely that scattered strong to severe storms will occur, capable of locally damaging winds and perhaps a tornado. TN/MS/AL/GA The remnants of a severe overnight MCS are over AR/west TN/northern MS. This system has considerable mesoscale organization with an MCV noted over eastern AR. A very moist and unstable air mass is in place ahead of this system over northern MS/AL, where heating into the mid 80s will foster thunderstorm intensification this afternoon. Damaging winds are the main concern with these storms, but a low-level jet feature associated with the MCV could result in a few supercell structures and the risk of a tornado or two. Activity will track into north GA this evening. Refer to MD #1252 for further details. Central High Plains Similar to yesterday, low-clouds are slowly burning off across the High Plains of eastern CO and western SD/NE/KS, where moderate CAPE values will develop by mid-afternoon. Easterly/upslope flow will contribute to scattered thunderstorm development over eastern WY and southward along the DCVZ in CO. These storms will track into the CAPE axis, where favorable deep-layer shear will promote supercells capable of very large hail and a few tornadoes.