11.   Powerful, lethargic thunderstorms will boil up across portions of the Southeast states from northern Florida to the Carolinas.

12.   Showers and thunderstorms, some with brief downpours and gusty winds, will develop Wednesday ahead of a cold front sweeping across the Southeast states.

13.   Strong storms are possible over the Southeast states near a stalled front across the Southeast states.

14.   That is drawback enough, but in those nine Southeast states, BellSouth faces ominous trends that undermine its core business of providing dial-tones for local service.

15.   The company already serves seven other Southeast states.

16.   The company serves seven other Southeast states.

17.   The sluggish jet-stream disturbance associated with this disjointed system will hang back over the Southeast states on Friday.

18.   This will produce a hot and mainly dry day from New England to the Southeast states and westward to the Mississippi River.

19.   In the Southeast, a high pressure system sent dry, cold air over the mid-Atlantic and southeast states, producing showers or flurries near the Appalachians.

20.   Roxanne weakened to a tropical storm and hovered over the Gulf of Mexico after whipping the southeast state of Tabasco late Wednesday and early Thursday.