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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 65

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1125 PM CDT Sat Mar 27 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Northern Alabama

  Southern Middle Tennessee



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 1125 PM

  until 600 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 85

    mph likely



SUMMARY...Fast-moving bowing QLCS should spread across southern

Middle Tennessee and far northern Alabama. A trailing QLCS with

embedded bows may spread east from northern Mississippi across the

rest of northern Alabama through the pre-dawn hours.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

east and west of a line from 75 miles north of Huntsville AL to 75

miles south of Muscle Shoals AL. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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 64...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 75 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 25050.



...Grams

