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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 294

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

620 PM CDT Fri Jul 20 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  northern Alabama

  eastern Arkansas

  southern Illinois

  southern Indiana

  western and central Kentucky

  far southeast Missouri

  northern Mississippi

  western and middle Tennessee



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 620 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Storms are ongoing across portions of southeast Missouri

and vicinity, and also across the central and eastern Kentucky

vicinity.  Expect storms to expand in coverage over the next couple

of hours, to include large portions of western Kentucky and western

and middle Tennessee.  Storms will spread southeastward with time,

into portions of northern Mississippi/northern Alabama, accompanied

by potential for large hail, damaging winds, and a few tornadoes

through the evening hours.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 130 statute miles

north and south of a line from 35 miles west northwest of Dyersburg

TN to 65 miles east of Nashville TN. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 289...WW 292...WW 293...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean

storm motion vector 29040.



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