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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 159

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

340 PM CDT Sun May 3 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Alabama

  Middle Tennessee



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 340 PM until

  800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A long-lived and fast-moving line of severe thunderstorms

over western Tennessee will track eastward across the watch area

this afternoon and early evening.  Damaging winds along the leading

edge of the storms is the primary threat.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 70 miles west southwest

of Nashville TN to 30 miles south southeast of Crossville TN. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 158...



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

28040.



...Hart

