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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 41

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

240 AM CST Wed Mar 4 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  A small part of central and southern Alabama



* Effective this Wednesday morning from 240 AM until 1000 AM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Potentially severe storms in Mississippi will move into

west central Alabama and likely continue moving east-southeastward

for the next few hours.  Additional storm development will also be

possible later this morning.  The storm environment favors elevated

supercells/bowing segments capable of producing large hail and

damaging winds.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles north and south of a line from 80 miles west of Selma

AL to 55 miles east northeast of Troy AL. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU1).



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 39...WW 40...



AVIATION...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

28040.



...Thompson

