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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 111

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

850 PM EDT Sat Apr 24 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme southeastern Alabama

  A small part of the northern Florida Panhandle

  Southern Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 850 PM

  until 100 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A broken band of severe storms, with embedded supercells

and small bowing segments, will persist for a few more hours before

weakening from west-to-east later tonight.  The primary threats will

be large hail and damaging gusts, though a tornado or two cannot be

ruled out with supercells in the short term.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles west southwest

of Dothan AL to 15 miles east southeast of Brunswick GA. 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 108...WW 109...WW 110...



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

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

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

27035.



...Thompson

