Barry Expected to Bring West Tennessee Significant Rainfall

Weather Update – 11:15 p.m. – Friday, July 12th

Pop-up showers and thunderstorms have finally dissipated in West Tennessee this evening. The chance for rain remains low overnight, but we’ll see a lot more rain fall over the next several days. Barry is forecast to make landfall in Louisiana tonight as a category 1 hurricane before quickly weakening to a tropical storm again.

TONIGHT
A chance for showers and thunderstorms continues overnight as a band of rain moving northwest into West Tennessee from Mississippi. We’ll see partly cloudy to mostly clear skies and humid conditions with temperatures dropping to the lower 70s by sunrise.

Expect high temperatures close to 90°F on Saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms especially during the afternoon and evening. Some thunderstorms may become strong producing heavy downpours and frequent lightning. Stay weather aware!

Barry is moving toward West Tennessee and is forecast to bring more rain for multiple days but other than a few lingering showers and thunderstorms, Saturday night will be quiet. Temperatures will drop to the lower and middle 70s by sunrise Sunday. The heaviest rainfall is forecast to take place from Sunday night into Monday but showers may only gradually come to an end during the middle of next week. Generally, our viewing area is looking at 3″-6″ of rain though totals near the Mississippi River may be slightly higher and toward the Tennessee River they could be slightly less. Wind gusts will be between 30 and 40 miles per hour on Monday with a chance for a brief, weak, isolated tornado.

Stay tuned in to WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News for the latest forecast and keep up with Storm Team Weather online too for more updates.

Tom Meiners
Storm Team 7 Chief Meteorologist, CBM
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