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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 32

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

710 PM CDT Tue Apr 3 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Alabama

  Northern Mississippi

  Western and middle Tennessee



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 710 PM

  until 100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Clusters and bands of storms along and ahead of a cold

front will likely consolidate into more of a squall line through

late evening, with the primary threat for damaging winds.  A tornado

or two will be possible with lingering pre-frontal supercells, or

circulations embedded within the developing line, while the

strongest storms this evening could still produce isolated large

hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 100

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles north northeast

of Nashville TN to 30 miles south southwest 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 27...WW 28...WW 29...WW

30...WW 31...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

27040.



...Thompson

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