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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 104

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

830 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Parts of central and southeast Louisiana

  Southwest and south central Mississippi



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 830 PM

  until 400 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Clusters of storms, with embedded supercell and bowing

structures, will likely persist well into the overnight hours while

spreading eastward from Louisiana into Mississippi.  The storm

environment will favor damaging winds and large hail with the

strongest storms, as well as a few tornadoes with the stronger

embedded circulations.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 40 statute miles

north and south of a line from 20 miles west southwest of Fort Polk

LA to 5 miles south southeast of Pine Belt MS. 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 99...WW 101...WW 102...WW

103...



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

surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean

storm motion vector 27035.



...Thompson

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