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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 34

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

435 PM CST Wed Feb 12 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern and Central Alabama

  Southern Middle Tennessee



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon from 435 PM until Midnight

  CST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms over eastern Mississippi will

track eastward across the watch area this afternoon and evening,

posing a risk of locally damaging wind gusts.  A brief tornado

cannot be ruled out in the region as well.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles north of

Huntsville AL to 40 miles south southeast of Tuscaloosa AL. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).



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 60 knots. A

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

24040.



...Hart

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