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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 362

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1210 PM CDT Sun Jul 12 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Alabama

  Eastern Mississippi



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 1210 PM until

  700 PM CDT.



* 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...Ongoing storms across northern Alabama/northeast

Mississippi will continue to organize as the progress/accelerate

southeastward across Alabama and eastern Mississippi this afternoon.

Damaging winds are the primary severe concern.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

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

Birmingham AL to 25 miles southwest of Montgomery AL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

31030.



...Guyer

