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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 545

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

900 AM EDT Thu Oct 28 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Florida

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday morning and afternoon from 900 AM until

  500 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms including the potential for wind

damage and a few tornadoes will increase through late

morning/afternoon especially across the northern/western Florida

Peninsula as the air mass destabilizes and deep-layer/low-level

winds strengthen.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 65 statute miles

east and west of a line from 55 miles north northwest of Gainesville

FL to 15 miles west southwest of Fort Myers FL. 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 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

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

storm motion vector 22040.



...Guyer

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