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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 29

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

640 PM CDT Thu Mar 14 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Central and Eastern Alabama

  Northwest Georgia



* Effective this Thursday night from 640 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Environment will remain conducive for supercells and the

possibility of a couple of tornadoes, along with isolated large hail

and damaging winds, through at least mid-evening if not

late-evening, particularly across central/eastern Alabama into

northwest Georgia.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

east and west of a line from 65 miles east northeast of Gadsden AL

to 25 miles southwest of Selma AL. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 25...WW 27...WW 28...



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

surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean

storm motion vector 25030.



...Guyer

