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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 702

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

345 PM CST Mon Dec 16 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Western and northern Alabama

  Far southeast Mississippi

  Far southern middle Tennessee



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 345 PM until

  1100 PM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...A line of strong to locally severe thunderstorms should

progress east from northeast and central Mississippi across

west-central and northern portions of Alabama into far southern

Tennessee this evening, offering a risk for damaging winds and a

couple tornadoes. An additional cluster of strong to severe storms

over southwest Mississippi may eventually spread east towards

southwest Alabama.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles

east and west of a line from 85 miles south southeast of Meridian MS

to 50 miles north northeast of Muscle Shoals AL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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 700...WW 701...



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

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

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 400. Mean

storm motion vector 24040.



...Grams

