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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 261

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

655 AM EDT Wed May 24 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  North Florida

  Southern Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 655 AM

  until 300 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms capable of a few tornadoes along with

damaging winds are expected to gradually increase through the

morning. This includes an early-day risk across the north-central

peninsula near a remnant boundary, while other storms will move in

from the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Panhandle and intensify within a

very moist and increasingly unstable environment.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles

north and south of a line from 35 miles south southwest of Marianna

FL to 25 miles north northeast of Daytona Beach FL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24030.



...Guyer

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