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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 55

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1025 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Eastern Kentucky

  Eastern Tennessee



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1025 PM

  until 200 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Multiple clusters should move east from central Kentucky

and Middle Tennessee with a continued threat for a couple tornadoes

and scattered damaging winds.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

east and west of a line from 25 miles east northeast of Lexington KY

to 60 miles south southwest of Crossville TN. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 51...WW 52...WW 53...WW

54...



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 450. Mean

storm motion vector 24045.



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