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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 112

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

520 PM CDT Sun Apr 2 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Mississippi



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and Monday morning from 520 PM

  until 100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated significant damaging wind gusts to 75 mph possible



SUMMARY...The northern part of a thunderstorm complex, led by a bow

echo, will move over a strip of northern Mississippi, north of a

warm front.  Though it generally will be moving over a relatively

dry and more-stable surface air mass with time, that dry air

actually can favor maintenance of strong to severe gusts to the

ground until the storms weaken too much.  Please see SPC mesoscale

discussion 409 for initial meteorological details.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 20

statute miles north and south of a line from 65 miles west of Oxford

MS to 30 miles east southeast of Tupelo MS. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU2).



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 110...WW 111...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

24035.



...Edwards

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