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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 524

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

240 PM CDT Fri Jul 19 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Central Minnesota

  Northwest Wisconsin



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 240 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Widespread damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 3 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Scattered supercells are likely to develop and become

increasingly surface based, initially across much of central

Minnesota, through late afternoon/early evening as a warm front

gradually spreads northward. Large hail and a tornado risk will

exist, including the potential for a couple of strong tornadoes.

Storms will eventually merge into an eastward-accelerating storm

complex by this evening, with widespread/significant wind gusts

becoming an increasing concern into Wisconsin.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

north and south of a line from 55 miles west southwest of Alexandria

MN to 55 miles north northeast of Eau Claire WI. 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 523...



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

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

gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 650. Mean

storm motion vector 28040.



...Guyer

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