Warren County is included in a large swath of Mississippi and Louisiana under a tornado warning until 11 a.m., according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in Jackson.

The tornado watch includes Chicot, in southeast Arkansas; East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, Richland, Tensas, and West Carroll parishes in northeast Louisiana, and the Mississippi counties of Warren, Issaquena, and Shareky in the west central part of the state; Claiborne in the southwest; Sunflower and Washington in the northwest;  Clay, Lowndes and Okitbbeha in the northeast; Carroll, Grenada, Leflore, Montgomery, and Webster in the north central; Kemper, Neshoba, Newton, Winston, Lauderdale, and Noxubee in east central; and, in central Mississippi, Attala, Hinds, Holmes, Leake, Madison, Scott, Yazoo, Choctaw, Humphreys, and Rankin.

NWS reports “severe weather is expected this morning as the next weather system moves across the area. Potential for widespread damaging winds is the primary concern and resulting power outages. A few tornadoes cannot be ruled out.”