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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 70

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1120 AM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and southern Alabama

  Southeast Mississippi



* Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 1120 AM

  until 500 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorm clusters along a southeast-moving cold front

will be capable of producing scattered damaging winds and a brief

tornado through this afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles southeast of

Auburn AL to 20 miles west northwest of Pine Belt MS. 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

25035.



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