MOULTRIE, Ga. — The National Weather Service is warning of potentially severe storms Thursday afternoon and evening.

In an email Wednesday morning, the NWS’s Tallahassee office said there is a slight risk (level 2 of 5) of severe thunderstorms mostly along and north of a line from Dothan, Ala., to Leesburg, Ga. The rest of southwest Georgia is in an area of marginal risk (level 1 of 5).

Damaging winds are the main threat, the email said, and there is a small chance of a tornado in the northernmost parts of the region.