NATCHEZ — The severe weather is not over for residents in the Miss-Lou.

After a round of storms spawned a tornado in Magee Thursday, the National Weather Service says two more storm systems will move through the area this weekend.

Meteorologist Thomas Winesett said storms with the potential of producing hail, damaging winds and tornadoes will move across Southwest Mississippi late tonight into early Saturday morning.

“Then there will be a lull in the early afternoon Saturday before another line of storms is expected late Saturday afternoon into the evening,” Winesett said.

The storms Saturday afternoon will have the potential to produce severe weather as well, Winesett said.

Thursday storms dropped 3.41 inches of rain between 1 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Natchez.  Residents should expect an additional 1 to 1.5 inches of rain this weekend, Winesett said.

The steady rainfall Thursday created problems for residents east of Bude, where area ponds and lakes filled to near capacity.

Winesett said floodwaters from a dam break in a small pond near McCall Creek briefly flooded portions of U.S. 84 east of Bude Thursday morning.

Franklin County Emergency Management Director Mark Thornton said the flooding shutdown the eastbound lanes of the highway from daylight until approximately 9 a.m. until the area could be cleaned up.

Thornton and other Franklin County officials spent most of the day Thursday focused on Gayle Evan Lake, another lake near McCall Creek where the risk of a beaver dam failure threatened to flood U.S. 84 with 4-5 feet of water.

The National Weather Service in Jackson issued a flash flood warning Thursday afternoon for areas along U.S. 84 near McCall Creek as rising waters on Gayle Evan Lake threatened to break up the beaver dam which prevented water from going over the lake’s spillway. If the dam failed a sudden rush of water could flood the area around the lake including parts of U.S. 84.

“What we were afraid of is that the dam would go all at once,” Thornton said.

By late afternoon crews had taken out a portion of the dam allowing the water to run over the spillway.

“In the last two hours (since crews dug out the dam), the water has lowered over a foot to a foot-and-a-half,” Thornton said. “I don’t think we have anything to worry about.”