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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 100

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1155 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Northern and western Louisiana

  Far southeast Texas



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 1155

  PM until 600 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...Long-lived supercell crossing the Sabine River may

continue to pose a near-term tornado threat. Additional storms

forming in a line to its south may intensify as well with an

associated damaging wind and brief tornado risk through dawn.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles

east and west of a line from 40 miles south southwest of Fort Polk

LA to 50 miles east northeast of Shreveport LA. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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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AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 500. Mean

storm motion vector 25025.



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