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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 153

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

215 PM CDT Wed May 8 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Southwest Arkansas

  Western Louisiana

  East and Southeast Texas



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 215 PM

  until 1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Storms will continue to intensify across east/southeast

Texas toward the ArkLaTex vicinity this afternoon in areas

along/south of an effective front. Adequate deep-layer shear and

some increase in low-level shear through late today will support

bowing segments/mesovortices and a few semi-discrete supercells.

Damaging winds and a few tornadoes are the main expectations into

this evening across the region.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles

north and south of a line from 45 miles east of Shreveport LA to 10

miles west southwest of College Station TX. For a complete depiction

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

WOU3).



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 152...



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 550. Mean

storm motion vector 23030.



...Guyer

