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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 163

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

900 AM CDT Sun May 12 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Far southeast Alabama

  Florida Panhandle

  Southwest Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Sunday morning and afternoon from 900 AM until

  200 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...Organized line segment near Pensacola will move quickly

east across the Florida Panhandle and possible intensifying into

southern portions of Alabama and Georgia through early afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west northwest

of Panama City FL to 15 miles east of Tallahassee FL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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

0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

26040.



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