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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 118

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

130 PM EDT Mon Apr 3 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  North Florida

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 130 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms will continue to track eastward

across the FL Panhandle this afternoon into a moist and unstable air

mass.  Locally damaging wind gusts and an isolated tornado or two

are the primary threats.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

east and west of a line from 25 miles north northeast of Tallahassee

FL to 30 miles east southeast of Apalachicola FL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 116...WW 117...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 27025.



...Hart

