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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 682

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

530 AM CDT Mon Oct 21 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme southeastern Arkansas

  Northern Louisiana

  Western Mississippi



* Effective this Monday morning and afternoon from 530 AM until

  100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A band of strong-severe thunderstorms will offer a

continuing wind-damage threat eastward across the remainder of

southeastern AR and northern LA, across the Mississippi River into

MS, before outrunning its most favorable inflow air and weakening.

While conditions supporting tornado development are not as strong as

earlier and farther west, one cannot be ruled out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 65 miles southwest of

Monroe LA to 20 miles north northwest of Greenwood MS. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are

favorable for 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. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce

tornadoes.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 679...WW 680...WW 681...



AVIATION...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 500. Mean storm motion vector

26030.



...Edwards

