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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 35

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

945 PM CDT Tue Apr 3 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and northeast Alabama

  Northwest Georgia



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 945 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A squall line entering northwest Alabama should persist

for a few more hours and move across central/northeast Alabama and

northwest Georgia before weakening late tonight.  A few damaging

outflow gusts will be the main threat.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles north of Rome GA

to 60 miles south of Tuscaloosa AL. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are

favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.

Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening

weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible

warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce

tornadoes.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 28...WW 29...WW 30...WW

31...WW 32...WW 33...WW 34...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

27040.



...Thompson

