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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 365

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1215 PM CDT Fri Jun 23 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Western and Northern Alabama

  Northwest Georgia

  Eastern Mississippi

  Middle and Eastern Tennessee



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 1215 PM until

  800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Preceding the east/northeastward-moving remnants of Cindy,

a very air mass and strong low/mid-level winds will support both

organized bowing structures and some line-preceding or embedded

supercells capable of a few tornadoes and locally damaging winds

this afternoon into early evening.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles

east and west of a line from 45 miles north northeast of Crossville

TN to 20 miles south southwest of Tuscaloosa AL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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 0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24040.



...Guyer

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