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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 151

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

725 PM EDT Tue May 4 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Alabama

  The Florida Panhandle

  West central and southwest Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 725 PM

  until 100 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A well-developed squall line with embedded bowing segments

will persist for several more hours while moving east-southeastward

from Alabama into Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.  Damaging winds

will be the main threat, though an embedded mesovortex tornado or

two may occur where the squall line intersects an outflow boundary

across the northern part of the watch area.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles west northwest

of Macon GA to 15 miles south southwest of Panama City FL. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 148...WW 149...WW 150...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

29040.



...Thompson

