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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 71

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

315 PM CDT Wed Mar 31 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Alabama

  Western Florida Panhandle

  Southwest Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 315 PM

  until 700 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...QLCS with an embedded bowing segment should spread

east-southeast across the rest of southern Alabama into a portion of

southwest Georgia and the western Florida Panhandle before

weakening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles north and south of a line from 10 miles southwest of

Mobile AL to 75 miles east northeast of Dothan AL. 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 70...



AVIATION...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 450. Mean storm motion vector

28030.



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