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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 47

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

345 PM CDT Thu Mar 12 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Northern and Central Arkansas

  Southern Illinois

  Western Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri

  Southeast Oklahoma

  Northwest Tennessee



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 345 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Widespread large hail likely with isolated very large hail

    events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to form along a cold front over

Arkansas and southern Missouri, then track eastward across the watch

area.  Intense storms capable of large hail and damaging winds are

expected.  A few tornadoes are also possible with any supercells

that form.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles

east and west of a line from 40 miles southwest of Hot Springs AR to

35 miles north northeast of Cape Girardeau MO. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 46...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 28035.



...Hart

