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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 150

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

115 PM EDT Sat Jun 2 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Alabama

  North Florida

  Southern Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 115 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Storms will continue to increase and intensify within a

very moist and unstable air mass across the region. Modestly

enhanced mid-level winds could support some semi-sustained/organized

southeastward-spreading multicellular storm clusters with damaging

wind and some hail potential.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles north

northwest of Panama City FL to 25 miles southeast of Brunswick GA.

For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch

outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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.



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

28020.



...Guyer

