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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 395

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

330 PM CDT Wed Oct 3 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Upper Michigan

  Eastern Minnesota

  Northern and central Wisconsin

  Lake Michigan

  Lake Superior



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 330 PM

  until 1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...The air mass will continue to rapidly moisten and

destabilize as a warm front continues to spread northward. This will

allow for storms to continue to intensify. Very strong winds through

a deep-layer will allow for both supercells and bowing segments.

Given the very moist environment and strength of the

deep-layer/low-level winds, a tornado risk exists, a few of which

could be strong/intense. Storms will steadily race

east-northeastward into northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula

of Michigan this evening.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 75 statute miles

north and south of a line from 70 miles west northwest of Eau Claire

WI to 35 miles east northeast of Escanaba MI. 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 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean

storm motion vector 24040.



...Guyer

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