"We are looking at the threat of two separate episodes of severe weather on Sunday with the first taking place on Sunday afternoon with a stronger episode late Sunday night into the overnight and early morning hours on Monday.  The better chance for severe storms at this point looks to be during the Sunday overnight hours. 

Overnight storm timing is especially dangerous as tornadoes that occur after midnight at more than twice as deadly than at other times of the day.''

Widespread damaging wind gusts, capable of bringing down trees and power lines, are the biggest concern with this round of severe weather.  An area of significantly favorable tornado development is expected in the western half of Georgia, as outlined in the map above. This includes much of metro Atlanta and points westward.

An even higher chance for strong long-tracked tornadoes exists for parts of Mississippi and Alabama.

Any tornadoes that develop have the possibility of being extremely dangerous, long-lived and destructive.

The first round of strong to severe storms is expected to come through late Sunday afternoon.

Let's see if we survive the next 24 hours . . . .