UPDATE: Severe Thunderstorm Warning Cancelled for Walton and Gwinnett

UPDATE: Severe Thunderstorm warning cancelled, tornado watch remains in effect until 8 p.m. and wind advisory until 12 a.m. Thursday.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for several counties in Georgia until 3:45 p.m. These counties include both Walton and Gwinnett counties.

The National Weather Service said the line of dangerous storms extended from Sugar Hill to Decatur. Loganville, Grayson and Monroe are mentioned as being in the line of the storms.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARROW COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN FORSYTH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA GWINNETT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA HALL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA HENRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA NEWTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA ROCKDALE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA WALTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA BANKS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 345 PM EST

* AT 256 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZED HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SUGAR HILL TO DECATUR TO 13 MILES SOUTH OF UNION CITY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DULUTH... TUCKER... CLARKSTON... AVONDALE ESTATES... SUWANEE... LILBURN... BUFORD... REST HAVEN... PINE LAKE... FLOWERY BRANCH... STONE MOUNTAIN... OAKWOOD... HAMPTON... GAINESVILLE... LAWRENCEVILLE... LOCUST GROVE... STOCKBRIDGE... MCDONOUGH... LULA... SNELLVILLE... DACULA... PORTERDALE... OXFORD... NEWBORN... MANSFIELD... COVINGTON... GEORGIA INTERNATIONAL HORSE PARK... LAKEVIEW ESTATES... CONYERS... WALNUT GROVE... SOCIAL CIRCLE... MONROE... LOGANVILLE... JERSEY... GOOD HOPE... BETWEEN... WINDER... STATHAM... CARL... BETHLEHEM... AUBURN... GRAYSON... LITHONIA... ARCADE... NICHOLSON... JEFFERSON... HOSCHTON... BRASELTON... COMMERCE... PENDERGRASS... TALMO... MAYSVILLE... HOMER AND GILLSVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. ALTHOUGH CURRENT DATA DOES NOT INDICATE THE EXISTENCE OF A TORNADO... A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE... SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

IF YOU SEE WIND DAMAGE... HAIL OR FLOODING... WAIT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED... AND THEN CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOLL FREE AT 1 8 6 6 7 6 3 4 4 6 6. YOU CAN ALSO TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG GAWX.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN GEORGIA.