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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 85

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

820 PM EDT Thu Apr 18 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Alabama

  Western Georgia



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 820 PM

  until 300 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of intense showers and thunderstorms will track

eastward across the watch area this evening, posing a risk of

locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east northeast

of Huntsville AL to 50 miles south southeast of Columbus GA. 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 83...WW 84...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

25035.



...Hart

