LIVE at 6: Flash Flooding continues to be a concern through the week

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[00:00:36][music] Well, do you have your umbrellas? That's the golden question over this 7-day stretch because rain continues to be the story. I'm meteorologist Gabe Meier here for Mississippi Live Weather at 6.

[00:00:49]Joined alongside our chief meteorologist Matt Laubhan. And Matt, well, it's not necessarily severe storms to worry about. All of this rainfall can cause another concern. That being flash flooding, right?

[00:00:59]Yeah, flash flooding concerns I think will be continuing to amount still over the next couple of days. Maybe not to the same extent because I hopefully think that the quantities of rainfall we're dealing with decrease. The problem is that everything's saturated with in some cases 7 or 8 inches of rainfall over the last 7 days. That makes it to where it's easy for that rain to run off, which is why all weekend long here at the Rumbling Weather Center, we've been concerned with that. Outside in Amory right now, the rain though lighter than it has been for a while. 72° current temperature on our North Mississippi Storm Chasers camera there down in Monroe County. So, the rain is going to continue to end our holiday weekend, which I mean, let's be honest, has been pretty rainy the entire way through. Uh we do expect the flooding concerns will continue as we go throughout this week as we discussed.

[00:01:47]Excuse me, apparently my throat is the only place where there is no water here in North Mississippi. But, we're going to shift a lot of other places drier as well as we We the weather to finally I think level off somewhat. We're telling you exactly when that could happen come up here in a couple of minutes. But this evening continues to be fairly wet. I mean, even 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 tonight, we're going to have at least lighter variety rainfall. And I think most of it is lighter at this time. 69 the temperature by 1:00 in the morning. Starting off tomorrow as you head back to work in the upper 60s with a few showers, but not nearly as much rainfall as what we have had.

[00:02:23]You know, flooding alerts, we do have flash flood watches, area flood watches, excuse me, in effect for Pickens County until 7:00 p.m. this evening. Notice those watches do continue deeper into Alabama there. You go to Tuscaloosa County, it's until tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. What's the difference one county makes? It's a sign that we're seeing that rainfall, the heaviest rainfall shift toward the east. Still the river flooding an issue along the Big Black River there at Talladega, Holmes, and Carroll counties under a flood warning there until the middle part of this week. Still that flash flood threat for today, for tonight, uh greatest for locations where you see the yellow there.

[00:03:00]We all continue to have at least a limited flash flooding threat through tomorrow and probably Wednesday just because of how saturated things are.

[00:03:07]That goes away by Thursday and Friday again as conditions become drier later on this week. We're checking out the latest right now out of our camera in Columbus. The roadways are wet though I have visibility, which is an improvement. 72° there on our Mississippi Department of Transportation camera there along US 82 in the Columbus area. Coming in closer, it's all lighter variety stuff. And this is all about as light as our scale goes here on precipitation on Mama Justice Doppler radar. We'll put this into motion over the last hour here with more moderate and again gradually lesser and lesser amounts of rain falling out of that.

[00:03:42]Still some moderate rainfall up here from this shower there uh south of Vernon as we show that lifting northward. Speed on this about 20 mph.

[00:03:50]You know, if we look at the rainfall rates on this. That has become less of an issue for a lot of this. Still showing again that moderate to heavier rainfall just in that one band, but everywhere you see kind of the blues and even to a certain extent the greens, that's the light stuff and no lightning strikes with this. So, tracking this northward, again Crossville with 6:11 you Belk at 6:11 there as well. Moscow 6:19, Sulligent 6:22. Getting up there closer to Crews at 6:30, Detroit 6:38 and Beaverton by around 6:39, Byrd by 6:54. As we lift northward along this line, it's just moderate rainfall again.

[00:04:24]Red Bay back there toward around Haleyville and Hackleburg. But again, this also doesn't have much in the yellows, much in the oranges there even, just some yellows. And same thing here from Jumpertown kind of heading northward there toward Corinth and Rienzi. We'll put this in the motion.

[00:04:38]Give you again a 1-hour loop on this and you can just see how there's just the more dry air starting to break this up someone on the west side here. So, looking toward Rienzi area, there we have a camera up there in all Corinth sounding. This is still again moderate rainfall, darker clouds, no severe weather out there thankfully with what we have in place this evening. Same thing in Tupelo, just kind of murky, but luckily less murky. 72° on our Mitchell Cunningham Bowling camera there on the south side of town. So, drier air is beginning to become the weather story.

[00:05:08]You can see more clearing back here for locations Water Valley southward. Even when I put on all of the sweeps is what we have here on this. You can see the drier air starting to cut in more and more. Still some sprinkles out here again Carroll County and some back out in the Delta, but less of the oranges and reds as the drier air begins to win out. So, our story kind of revolving around that on the wider shot. Low pressure here, you know, just generally on the east side of this we have a lot of moisture kind of come up there out of the Gulf of Mexico. So, we'll just kind of draw that on here for a moment.

[00:05:38]That's you know, generally on the east side here where this is just kind of flooding northward out of the Gulf there. And as that kind of works its way northward again, moderate in some cases heavy rainfall possible. Some severe weather back out into the Florida Panhandle, but not much anything resembling that anywhere near us as well. So, as we go over the next few hours here, as you'll see on Futurecast, continuing to have again that moisture working its way right there out of the Gulf and continuing to again bring these bands of moisture up here in the northern parts of Mississippi and Alabama, but certainly Alabama more likely spot to have some of that. And even if we kind of watch it in closer, watch how some of that moisture wrapping back around this all the way to Jonesboro, Arkansas and then kind of back here into Arkansas as well. So, the rainfall, this initial main fetch we have, I say initial, it's been going on for days, but this main fetch of moisture we have gets somewhat cut off as it's wrapping back around the north side of the system here. We'll continue to have again the heaviest rainfall, but notice how it's really the eastern half there of Alabama where we're seeing most of that as opposed to here in north Mississippi, still wrapping around those showers out there in the Arkansas. And we'll still have some of that can come back in through the day, but the rainfall coverage much more limited for your Tuesday. Hallelujah.

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[00:06:51]66 in the morning, we're 72 by 9:00 a.m., 78 by noon, and then lower 80s by afternoon. Rain chances, yeah, we'll still have some showers, some thunderstorms popping up, but isn't it just like the way it's going to work but about the time we conclude that first really opening weekend a lot of us consider summer as a lot of folks try to head to the lake and it just wasn't I'm not going to say it wasn't possible, but seriously, we had some issues. Um, let things clear up just in time to go back to work. Sometimes that's just the way it works. Now, it'll go completely clear and clearly we have rain chances that will continue and even lighter amounts could cause some flooding issues because of how much rainfall we've seen.

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[00:09:01]Well, we're going to start our next part of our broadcast using our StormFinder Mississippi Live exclusive looking at not just rain chances, but where the best likelihood of maybe some strong storms and maybe a few strikes of lightning mad at this rate because even that's hard to come by here in North Mississippi right now.

[00:09:18]Well, right now it is, and I think that's a good thing that that's maybe a sign that we've transitioned things over the last 24 hours or so. The fact that maybe we're seeing less of those lightning strikes showing up there. So, this is StormFinder again a Mississippi Live exclusive. You'll see clearly out in the Georgia, out in the Alabama.

[00:09:34]That's where our more plentiful lightning is. That's where the heaviest rainfall is. A transition of finally a shift in our overall pattern here a little bit more to the east and that'll continue to be again where the heaviest is falling. Rainfall amounts that could be an additional two or three or more inches back that direction. Now, what has been the case last couple days? We get these big flare-ups down at the coast and then that wave moves its way northward. So, let's track how one of those could play out as we go through your Tuesdays. We talked about first part of Tuesday not expecting a ton of activity. That will definitely continue to increase as we go throughout the day as you can see here by say 2 to 3:00, pretty good flare-up of lightning down to the south. And while the lightning decreases somewhat as the storms make their way here in the north Mississippi, what that is a sign of here as they get uh farther north as they should be again diminishing in intensity somewhat, but I think there's enough there that we're still going to have heavy rainfall and that's why we have that lingering flooding rainfall threat, albeit slightly more limited, but still there as we head into your uh Tuesday and the afternoon and evening. By Wednesday, again starting off with perhaps some isolated thunderstorms possible. One thing StormFinder does do here, we don't always point out as clearly, is when we see those storm chances increasing even when you have a more limited coverage there. That sometimes means the confidence in the model is somewhat more limited. Still likely to have some showers and thunderstorms increasing in the confidence of those as you go towards say midday Wednesday, but I think by Wednesday afternoon, if I get out of the way here, another big kind of wave of storms, but this coming from a different direction. And notice how that was actually coming if I reverse it here for a second, rewind it, coming from the south and west. And so, perhaps more dry air there. Sometimes we talk dry air could have some stronger wind gusts as well. So, uh a possibility with rain chances through the middle part of this week as we wind things back out again closer to the coast where they're more substantial as we go into your Wednesday. And then as we go into Thursday, again more rainfall. See how we have another wave kind of moving in here looking toward Thursday. More lightning, more heavy rainfall, more of everything as we go toward Thursday afternoon. And then, guess what for Friday? More round. So, while initially here, we're shifting out of this absolutely likely to be flooding, which is where we've been the last couple of days, we don't go to completely dry as the forecast has plenty of rain and storm chances in it looking through the extended forecast period there as well.

[00:11:58]So, Storm Finder again a Mississippi live exclusive continues to be pretty active for the next few days here.

[00:12:04]Bringing it back in over to our Mama Justice Dampler radar and its latest scans here across the northern part of the state of Mississippi. Drier air over the last couple of hours. You can see how that has more kind of filtered in here. Still showing some spotty showers that we're tracking out there for a few locations, but uh they remain pretty limited in the overall coverage and intensity. But, notice how you have kind of a general circulation here. This is pretty close to the center of low pressure that's kind of moving over top of us. That's kind of a convergent point. But, what it is doing for us is it's dragging in kind of drier air.

[00:12:37]And so, drier air kind of funneling in the backside of this storm system, which has been much more active for some other locations. Case in point, I'm going to pop this over to our friends down at Panhandle Weather down at the coast cuz I see that I've been kind of watching them behind the scenes here. Uh and this is shot of a tornado that looks like they had touched down there toward the coast to earlier on out of a storm down there. So, that's the difference between where they have a little more shear, a little more of everything it takes and versus what we have up here in the northern part of uh Mississippi and Alabama. There's Chris Smith and the folks down there. For whatever reason, you ever find yourself at the coast, maybe going to the beach, you get worried about weather, Panhandle Weather. Just search for them on on YouTube, on Facebook. They're part of the Digital Weather Network. They've got an app. Looks pretty similar to ours.

[00:13:21]And they do a great jam job down there.

[00:13:22]Dan Nyman and Chris Smith again uh some of our partners here uh on the Digital Weather Network. So, as we kind of look at things here, I'll um send it back to Gabe here in just a moment once he's ready for that, but looking outside in Cleveland right now, it's just kind of a mix of clouds and well, some rainfall out there as I move my monitors back around. Coming in 73° right now in the Cleveland area as of this hour. And Gabe, you know, as we kind of bring it back here there into the downtown studios, not a lot of rain falling out of those showers from most locations like Cleveland or some other spots as well, right? For sure. And I think that we're on the downward trend in some of those heavier chances as well. So, that'll limit that flash flooding potential tonight, but you know, the ground can only absorb so much. So, every additional tenth of an inch, half of an inch, inch of rainfall that we get basically sitting there on top of the surface. And I saw a meteorologist Kelly Bell of Blue he posted on his Facebook of his brother actually taking the pool floaties and going down some of the flooded areas. Well, I can't recommend that. Of course, that is a way to enjoy your Memorial Day plans, but it wasn't extremely flooded, Matt. It was about just a little bit in the yard. So, I'll give him credit.

[00:14:32]Okay, I just I just have to this is one of those things where I got to stand back and I got to be the the the the crotchety old man on this one. Can't do that.

[00:14:41]Because let's let's just just throw it out there. More people die from flooding than tornadoes and hurricanes every year. So, anyway, just I have to be that guy. So, I'm going to say don't do that in the floodwaters. Okay. No, you're exactly right. But I mean, he was able to see the ground at least. So, it wasn't that deep of flood water. But you're exactly right. So, that's why we want to recommend folks if you do have a flooded roadway or even someone was recommending in the chat at 5:00. If you have any of those county roads, those back roads that maybe get flooded a bit easier or made of dirt or gravel that could make things a little bit more loose and we don't want you guys get stuck out there. Unfortunately, Matt is exactly right. We have seen casualties when we're talking about flooding conditions. So, we don't recommend that, but luckily I think we're on the downward trend tonight with that heavier rainfall even out in Houston. While a light to moderate showers not impossible, we're not expecting anything overly heavy there in Chickasaw County, but still a very soggy environment, very saturated environment. And as Matt talked about there in Columbus, dealing with some of those heavier showers even the last half hour, but as those have kind of cleared on out, we've been left with some of those light showers on the back end of this. So, overall, it is going to be a soggy start to our summer season, and we are debuting our pool day forecast brought to you by the folks there at IMPC. You know, school day to pool day, fitting, right? And we're 68° by 8:00 a.m., 76 by noon, 79 by 3:00.

[00:15:54]You can see those chances of rainfall continue throughout the day, and with that rainfall, going to limit just how high things get in the temperature category, but countdown to August 1st, we're 67 days away. Kids, that's an easy number for you to remember, and I know that parents, it's a number that you're counting down to as well. Looking at the UV index, going to be on the higher side if we are able to get that sunshine through, but we're not expecting much sunshine tomorrow. Still going to be a pretty gloomy forecast. Okay, let's bring it back into the North Mississippi view, and as we look at that low pressure system, you know, that's going to be what's driving our weather pattern over at least the next 24 hours. You can see how that gradually works its way up towards the north, and working these bands of rainfall through the North Mississippi area, and while it still has some of those red showing up, this is more indicative of some brief heavy downpours rather than it being a thunderstorm producer. So, as these bands work their way on through overnight, just going to see those moderate, maybe heavy showers, but really going to be a light to moderate in variety, especially by Tuesday morning. And as our meteorologist Matt McCollough gets you guys going for your day on your Tuesday, and tracks out what little showers we do have here in the North Mississippi area.

[00:17:00]Temperature-wise, we're 65 Water Valley and Bruce, 65 New Albany and Holly Springs, we're 66 Louisville and Kosciusko, and 68 Greenville and Belzoni. So, as we continue throughout our morning, you can see how that low pressure center lifts towards the north, and we talked about this at 5:00. And if you missed our broadcast, there's been a change since what we tracked even from this morning.

[00:17:19]What we've been seeing is a gradual shift in the rain chances more towards Alabama and South Alabama, even towards Southeast Mississippi. So, watch how these rain chances begin to work their way just towards the north, but at boundary never fully reaches our coverage area. I mean, if we're talking Noxubee, Pickens, Lamar, even Lowndes and Winston, I would say that's your cutoff of some of these heavier downpours as those remain more out there towards Alabama and that trend has been shifting it more and more towards South and East. And that's the difference between a soggy, rainy, saturated day like what we've had today and more of hit-or-miss showers. And I think that we're going to be more on the hit-or-miss shower variety rather than seeing the widespread chances on our Tuesday. So, that's lowered some of those chances on our Tuesday and that's a good thing because I know a lot of us wanting some of those dry conditions to enjoy our summer days, but I mean, look at the difference. Alabama, Mississippi, 5:30 on your Tuesday and to or Mississippi definitely looking drier compared to our compared to our twin state out there in Alabama. Now, rainfall totals, this is more going to show what happens tonight.

[00:18:22]You can see an additional inch to 2 inches possible as those rain chances do stick around, but all of this in Alabama is more for tomorrow. And that's where we're getting an additional inch, 2 inches, 3 inches on top of what we've already received. So, Alabama going to be the focal point for a large part of those rain chances. We're 82 New Albany, Tupelo, and Amory for our Tuesday afternoon. 83 Eupora, Houston, and Bruce and 85 Belzoni. 84 Greenville going to be a warmer one by the afternoon, but a little bit warmer than where we were at today because less rain chances. Rain cooled air has really kept those temperatures from being overly balmy, but as those work their way on out, we'll see those temperatures work their way on up. As we go about our Tuesday night, we're continuing to see some of those pop-up showers and storms even out there towards Northwest Mississippi as a boundary works its way on through, but overall coverage still not going to be widespread. So, these chances do come down from where we were at today. Still there, but not going to be the widespread action like what we've had so far. So Wednesday morning dodging a few of those hit or miss showers once again.

[00:19:21]Our meteorologist Matt McCauley staying busy during those morning shows. We're 67 Water Valley, Grenada, Eupora, and Houston 66 Hamilton, Alabama, 68 Aliceville, and Macon. So still starting the mornings pretty mild. That's another thing the rainfall does. Keeps those morning temperatures pretty consistent there in the mid to upper 60s. Our Wednesday morning stays with those rain chances you do see how it tries to be more more hit or miss showers on our Wednesday, but watch how we change over from our HTRRR model to the strike.

[00:19:49]A little bit of a disparity, I know. Why does that happen? Well, I think there's a sweet medium between these two uh models that is going to happen and that's going to be those scattered chances of showers and storms with the few of those being on the heavier side.

[00:20:01]That one there towards Montgomery County, one that stands out for a brief heavy downpour. Cleveland, Shelby, even towards Clarksville getting a few of those heavy downpours. So that's really what we're dealing with. I don't see anything that stands out as hey, that's a strong storm, but yes, I think heavy rainfall is on the table once again and that flash flooding threat it will be in play on our Wednesday as well. As we continue through the evening hours, our strike model tries to keep those chances around and I do think that, you know, we're going to have an increase in coverage from what our HTRRR is showing, but I don't think it's going to be as widespread and our temperature's indicating that as well because what did I just say? Less rainfall, the warmer the temperatures. And we're getting low to mid to maybe even upper 80s. Eupora, Kosciusko, and Columbus. So that means it's going to try to mix in some of that drier air and perhaps some of that sunshine warming us up nicely. But where that happens is still something that's going to vary model run to model run. So we're going to continue to look at that and at 9:00 and 10:00 tonight we're going to have the latest look at that HTRRR model carrying us through those afternoon hours and we'll be able to compare that to what we just saw on strike model a moment ago. Our flash flood threat, you see it there on our uh this is for our Monday level one, but then level two out there for the golden triangle and south and east that was due to those heavier downpours earlier on today. But as we've gotten into the forecast for our Tuesday level one threat encompassing all of North Mississippi because those heavy downpours continue into Wednesday level one threat encompassing all of North Mississippi due to the heavy downpours and so on and so on as rain chances continue through the week. We see we're at 30% coverage Wednesday and Thursday.

[00:21:31]I do think these percentages will either vary right anywhere from the 20 to 40% range. Right now I like I said a sweet medium there at 30% but we definitely could see that increase depending on how that HRRR model continues tonight. One of our short range models that that we like to incorporate into the forecast but as we get into Friday rain chances increase back to about 50% 30% Saturday 20% Sunday.

[00:21:55]Golden opportunity heading into early next week as drier conditions move in place. So this time next week we're going to be talking about a whole different forecast. Excited about that.

[00:22:05]Excited to get into the month of June and gives you a little bit of something to look forward to as we approach those summer months. We're going to continue to talk about more into this weekend because it is drying up a bit but we're also dealing with baseball in a good way. Hosting a regional here in Starkville. Our Will Colmyer joining us on the set to talk more detail about the regional matchups for Ole Miss Mississippi State Southern Miss and how those matchups will shape up for this weekend. That as Mississippi Live Weather continues right after the break.

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[00:23:40]Our Will Colmyer keeping us updated on playoff action last week for high school baseball, but this week stabbing more in the college category. We'll get into the forecast here in just a moment because you do see the location, Starkville, Mississippi. That's where our Will Colmyer is uh is previewing this regional match-up. What's in place for the Bulldogs as well as our other Mississippi teams, Ole Miss and Southern Miss. We toss to him now in Starkville.

[00:24:07]Welcome to a soggy Starkville. Good grief, has it been raining all day long?

[00:24:12]A lot of it, heavy stuff. And obviously Bulldog fans have got their fingers crossed and come Friday when this regional begins here on the MSU campus, that Carl Hogan Toyota forecast will be much nicer than what we had here today.

[00:24:25]But it was an exciting day. Uh the players and coaches met with the media right after the selection show this morning when they found out exactly First of all, we knew State was going to host, but we just didn't know what teams. They ended up being a number 14 seed. They'll of course be the number one seed in this Starkville regional which starts on Friday. Cincinnati is the two seed. The three seed is Louisiana. And Mississippi State's first round opponent, Lipscomb, is the four seed. Drove by the soccer field here on the MSU campus coming over here to the dude today. And of course last time Mississippi State played in soccer was against Lipscomb first round of the NCAA tournament. Lipscomb upset Mississippi State. Obviously Bulldog fans want no part of that this Friday here in Starkville.

[00:25:10]By the way that MSU Lipscomb game will start at 1:00 on Friday and then right after that the two and the three seeds will take on each other. That's Louisiana and Cincinnati at 6:00. Those games will be on ESPN Plus. Now as for Ole Miss the Rebels as expected did not get a host slot so they'll be the number two seed in the Lincoln regional there in Nebraska. Nebraska the Cornhuskers obviously the number one seed Ole Miss the two seed. The three seed will be Arizona State and the four seed in Lincoln will be South Dakota State the Jackrabbits.

[00:25:44]They'll take on Nebraska in one of the games. In fact that'll start that regional at 3:00 on Friday and then Ole Miss and Arizona State at 8:00. That Ole Miss game by the way will be on ESPN2.

[00:25:56]Ole Miss probably some of those so-called experts today were saying they came one win shy of hosting.

[00:26:02]Arkansas they had 20 wins of SEC and SEC action and they didn't get a host slot so obviously the SEC tournament really didn't mean much for that. Now Southern Miss fans know that they will be hosting the Hattiesburg regional. Southern Miss will be the nine seed so they just missed being one of the national seeds. The top eight of course if you win this weekend you'll also host next weekend and Southern Miss will take on Little Rock in the first round in Hattiesburg it'll start at 1:00. I called Little Rock Little Rock Ole Miss game earlier this spring. Little Rock very competitive team so don't want to take the Trojans lightly. In fact Little Rock almost eliminated LSU. Remember that last year in the Baton Rouge regional?

[00:26:41]LSU had to win a winner take all game against Little Rock and that went on. Of course the Tigers went on to win the national championship. In the other part of that Southern Miss regional Jacksonville State they call themselves Jack State now. The Gamecocks will take on Virginia. That'll be at 6:00. Those games in Hattiesburg on Friday will be on ESPN+. But, that's the story here in Starkville.

[00:27:04]Wet, wet, wet, but the good news is Mississippi State knows for sure it will host here at the dude beginning at Friday. We'll have reports all week long, but for now, that's the story here in Starkville. We'll send it back to you in Tupelo.

[00:27:20]Appreciate that, Will. And exciting times down in Starkville. Just excited that Mississippi State gets to host. I know there's a few Arkansas fans that aren't so thrilled, but as we look at that forecast for Mississippi State versus Lipscomb, the first game that's happening at 1:00 p.m. on our Friday, we see first pitch sitting at 71°. Rain chances, I told you Friday was going to be a soggy day. We're seeing 50% coverage there.

[00:27:42]Continuing around that same margin by the fourth inning, 70°, 69 towards that final out. And yes, dodging a few more showers. So, if you were at the SEC tournament this week, or at least watched some of it, you know that rain was a big issue. Well, are we going to be an issue once again heading into regional play? And that's not just for us here in Mississippi, even up in Nebraska, where the Ole Miss Rebels are taking on Arizona State.

[00:28:05]First pitch sitting at 71°, 68 towards the fourth inning, and 65 by the final out. First pitch at 8:00 p.m. That's the reason why those temperatures are so mild, but it will be a bit warmer up there because it's going to be slightly drier. Still dodging a few of those pop-up showers, but Rebel fans who travel up to Nebraska going to be traveling through through a few showers and storms as well. So, keep the rain gear around. You're going to need it no matter where you go, and hopefully hopefully both of our North Mississippi teams are able to win. Hopefully all of our Mississippi teams are able to win. I will say, you know, back in my roots, Jacksonville State was where we had a few band competitions, and it was right up the road from when I went to school.

[00:28:39]And they have a Fear the Beak, so that's my I guess that's my roots right there.

[00:28:45]Um, taking on Southern Miss, so I'm a Mississippian now. So, I got to cheer on the Southern Miss Eagles and hopefully hopefully all of our Mississippi teams can advance, survive, and continue to do big things, and hopefully end up in Omaha, not too far away from Lincoln here soon. Appreciate the folks there at Carl Hogan Toyota for sponsoring our SEC baseball forecast. We're going to continue to touch base with this forecast as we head through the weekend and even updating you guys as we go into our Saturday, Sunday, and potentially Monday. We'll see how things shape up, but either way, going to be a great time and definitely a place you need to get out to that down there in Starkville or down there in Hattiesburg. So, I appreciate all of you guys. I want to bring up the chat real quick. Make sure I'm not missing anything there. I do see Mary saying fans are requesting no rain from Thursday through next Monday.

[00:29:28]Thursday, mentioning that because our softball team is over in OKC. So, Do we have audio now?

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[00:29:41]Um, Mr. Cornbread.

[00:29:43]Love the name.

[00:29:44]Um, but yeah, softball playing Thursday in OKC, so excited for that. They're playing at 11:00 a.m. So, we'll see how that match up goes, but already done big things this season. Anything else is just a cherry on top at this rate. Um, I do see there user 87345 base brings the lake closed the beaches through tomorrow due to high water. Makes sense with all the heavy rainfall. So, I appreciate that note, user 87345. And if you're looking to make any plans outside, well, probably don't need to be at a pool or a beach anytime soon, especially with the beaches down south dealing with some tornado warnings as well. We're keeping you updated on that, but not expecting any tornadoes here. It continues to be the flooding potential going over the next several days. So, Terry saying go Sun Devils. That's real hater activity right there, going against the Rebels.

[00:30:29]So, unless you're an Arizona State fan, in which I'll give you credit, but either way. Okay, well, I will wrap it up. I know you guys have some big dinner plans. So, go enjoy a bite to eat, and we'll see you back here coming up at 9:00 and 10:00 tonight. But before you go, download that Mississippi Live Weather app if you're looking to track out any of these rain chances. iOS and Android there on the bottom left and right of your screen. And like, subscribe, follow, download all of those on the socials. And appreciate everyone for all the support that they've shown so far. And excited to head into another summer of uh Mississippi Live Weather.

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