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As a very early season cold front makes its way south, showers and thunderstorms will become more numerous in the New Orleans area for Thursday and Friday.

The National Weather Service just issued this severe weather bulletin at 3:24 p.m.:

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA

324 PM CDT THU AUG 9 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW ORLEANS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

NORTHEASTERN ST. HELENA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...
NORTHWESTERN TANGIPAHOA PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON PARISH IN SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...
SOUTHEASTERN AMITE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 321 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KENTWOOD...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...

KENTWOOD BY 330 PM CDT...
OSYKA BY 350 PM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

Nearly everyone will end up under a heavy shower with a lot of lightning.

Gusty winds near the storms will also be an issue. Storms will linger through the early evening and into Friday.

Saturday morning the front will push south of the coast into the Gulf of Mexico reducing our rain chance to near zero.

Watch FOX 8 News at 4 and 5pm for the latest weather forecast.

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