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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 231

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1145 AM EDT Thu Jun 28 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Alabama

  Central and Northwest Georgia

  Northwestern and Southern-Middle Tennessee



* Effective this Thursday morning and evening from 1145 AM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to develop and spread

southeastward across the watch area this afternoon.  The strongest

cells will be capable of locally damaging wind gusts through the

afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast

of Dyersburg TN to 30 miles east of Macon GA. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 230...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

32025.



...Hart

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