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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 130

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1215 PM CDT Sat May 4 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Alabama

  Florida Panhandle

  Southeast Mississippi

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1215 PM

  until 600 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A nearly continuous north/south-oriented line of storms

will continue to progress east/northeastward across the region with

the possibility of a few additional strong to severe storms just

ahead of it. Within a very moist air mass, modestly strengthening

low/mid-level winds will support well-organized storms including

bowing segments capable of damaging winds and perhaps a tornado or

two.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles west northwest

of Gulfport MS to 25 miles east of Evergreen AL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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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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 500. Mean storm motion vector

23025.



...Guyer

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