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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 144

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 AM EDT Fri Apr 24 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Central and northern Florida

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Friday morning from 155 AM until 1100 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...A complex of thunderstorms should move eastward from the

Gulf across the central/northern peninsula through mid/late morning.

Bows, line-embedded or bookend mesovortices, and supercells each may

occur with this activity, offering damaging gusts and some tornado

threat.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles

north and south of a line from 50 miles northwest of Saint

Petersburg FL to 35 miles east southeast of Daytona Beach FL. 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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AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 550. Mean

storm motion vector 25035.



...Edwards

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