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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 63

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

820 PM CDT Sat Mar 27 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Illinois

  Southeast Missouri



* Effective this Saturday evening from 820 PM until 1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A QLCS will spread east across southeast Missouri and

southeast Illinois before weakening during the late evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles east northeast

of Salem IL to 45 miles southwest of Carbondale IL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 59...WW 60...WW 61...WW

62...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

23035.



...Grams

