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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 236

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

625 PM CDT Fri May 24 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Eastern Iowa

  Northern and central Illinois

  Far northeast Missouri



* Effective this Friday night from 625 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...A few supercells should develop along a residual boundary

from eastern Iowa into west-central Illinois. This activity should

spread east-northeast in northern Illinois through late evening.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles

north and south of a line from 45 miles north northwest of

Burlington IA to 40 miles north northeast of Bloomington IL. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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 232...WW 233...WW

234...WW 235...



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

surface and aloft to 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 55 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 25030.



...Grams

